As one of Canada’s leading national organizations specializing in economic abuse, coerced debt, and systemic change, we delivers evidence-based training that equips leaders and professionals to recognize, prevent, and respond to economic abuse and financial exploitation.
Our programs draw on three national research studies, a nationwide environmental scan, promising practices, and insights from CCFWE’s National Council for Survivors of Economic Abuse, survivor experiences, and cross-sector consultations.
We provide specialized training for financial institutions, corporate executives, employers, debt collection agencies, frontline service providers, health care organizations, community agencies, and military institutions.
Our training strengthens professional expertise, institutional accountability, survivor-centred responses, and organizational capacity to dismantle systemic barriers, advance financial inclusion, and drive lasting systemic change.
Since 2018, CCFWE has trained more than 5,567 professionals from 175 organizations.
98% percent of participants reported that our training significantly improved their ability to prevent, identify, respond to, and support survivors affected by economic abuse, coerced debt, and financial exploitation.
1. Financial Inclusion, Economic Abuse Prevention, and Institutional Response for Financial Institutions and Corporate Leaders
Strengthening institutional accountability, financial safety, ethical practices, and organizational capacity to identify, prevent, and respond to economic abuse.
2. Economic Abuse, Coerced Debt, and Financial Exploitation: Advanced Training for Frontline and Professional Service Providers
Building specialized expertise in trauma-informed interventions, risk identification, survivor-
3. Financial Safety, Economic Empowerment, and Economic Abuse Awareness for Women with Lived Experience
Advancing financial knowledge, economic independence, informed decision-making, and long-term financial securitythrough survivor-centred education.
4. Economic Abuse Recognition, Risk Assessment, and Institutional Response for Law Enforcement, Military, and Armed Forces
Enhancing professional competencies in identifying financial coercion, assessing economic harm, and strengthening survivor protection and institutional response protocols.
5. Responsible Lending, Coerced Debt Prevention, and Financial Consumer Protection for Lenders and Credit Associations
Advancing responsible lending practices, safeguards against financial exploitation, survivor-
6. Economic Abuse Prevention, Consumer Protection, and Institutional Safeguards for Utility and Transportation Sectors
Strengthening sector-specific policies, service accessibility, risk identification, and institutional responses to economic coercion and financial vulnerability.
7. Economic Abuse Prevention, Workforce Protection, and Corporate Accountability for Hospitality and Tourism Leaders
Building organizational capacity to recognize economic exploitation, strengthen employee protections, and integrate trauma-informed practices into corporate policies and service delivery.
8. Economic Abuse, Structural Inequality, and Systems Transformation: Strategic Policy Workshops for Government and Institutional Leaders
Advancing evidence-informed policymaking
9. Economic Abuse, Financial Vulnerability, and Trauma-Informed Care for Health Care Leaders and Professionals
Strengthening clinical and institutional capacity to recognize economic abuse as a social determinant of health, identify financial barriers to care, and improve coordinated, survivor-centred responses.
10. Economic Abuse, Financial Exploitation, and Consumer Protection for Insurance Providers and Industry Leaders
Strengthening safeguards against insurance-related financial coercion, survivor-sensitive claims processes, financial confidentiality, and institutional accountability.
11. Mortgage-Related Economic Abuse, Coerced Debt, and Financial Consumer Protection for Mortgage Lenders, Brokers, and Housing Finance Institutions
Advancing responsible mortgage practices, identifying housing
12. Technology-Facilitated Economic Abuse, Digital Financial Safety, and Institutional Accountability for Technology and Digital Service Providers
Building specialized expertise in identifying digital financial exploitation, technology-enabled coercive control, unauthorized financial access, and digital surveillance while strengthening privacy safeguards, survivor-centred technology design, and institutional responses.
CCFWE continuously updates its training programs based on survivor expertise, national research, and emerging trends in economic abuse.
If there is a specific area of economic abuse you would like to learn more about, and it is not currently covered in our courses, please contact us. We welcome opportunities to tailor training to meet the needs of your organization, sector, or community.
Some of our upcoming courses are still in development. To register your interest or learn more, please contact: [email protected]
