At the Canadian Center for Women’s Empowerment, we believe that understanding economic abuse is essential to supporting survivors and creating meaningful systems change.

Through our education and training programs, CCFWE equips professionals across sectors with the knowledge, tools, and confidence to recognize economic abuse and respond in survivor centred, trauma informed, and practical ways.

We offer customized training sessions for professionals, including financial institutions, employers, credit collectors, frontline service providers, domestic violence advocates, and community organizations.

Our training empowers participants to:

• Recognize the often hidden signs of economic abuse
• Support survivors’ financial safety, dignity, and independence
• Understand the links between economic abuse, coerced debt, financial exploitation, and physical safety
• Challenge the systems and practices that allow abusers to maintain financial control

Our training is grounded in survivor voices, including insights from CCFWE’s National Council for Survivors of Economic Abuse, as well as emerging research, promising practices, and sector based learning. This ensures our courses are practical, relevant, and rooted in what survivors need most.

Knowledge sharing is central to CCFWE’s mission. It is one of the key ways we create lasting and impactful change across financial, social service, legal, employment, and community sectors.

Since 2018, CCFWE has equipped more than 2,567 professionals with the skills to recognize and respond to economic abuse effectively. 98% of participants reported that our training significantly improved their understanding of economic abuse, coerced debt, financial exploitation, and the connection between financial safety and physical safety.