Financial Empowerment Network

Don't miss the WA Financial Coaching Network's final meeting of 2024! Join us on Wednesday, December 4th, 2-3:30 as we send off the year with reflections on 2024 and intention-setting for 2025. We're looking forward to hearing the stories of success and the lessons from growth that brought us to our current work! Not signed up for the WA Financial Coaching Network? Get on the list: https://bit.ly/3Pkd7fX #financialcoaching #financialbelonging #financialwellbeing #financialempowerment

Our Partner Spotlight for November is United Indians of All Tribes Foundation! Pathway to Financial Sovereignty is a Financial Empowerment Program by the United Indians of All Tribes Foundation, offering financial workshops and one-on-one financial coaching to inter-urban community members. Workshops are held bi-monthly at four locations in King County. One-on-one financial coaching is available daily and can be scheduled by emailing [email protected] or by calling 206.889.4797. Founded in 1970, the United Indians of All Tribes Foundation is a 501?(3) organization that provides a wide range of culturally responsive services and programs to Seattle and King County’s urban Native community. These programs include Family and Community Services, Daybreak Star Preschool, and the Labatayah Youth Center. You can support UIATF Community Services through Corporate Sponsorship, for more information or to discuss other ways to support, you can contact UIATF directly at [email protected] or call (206)285-4425.

Last chance to order FREE Foreclosure Prevention Trifold pamphlets! Submit orders before December 13th! Washington State Department of Financial Institutions, Washington State Department of Commerce, Northwest Justice Project, Washington Homeownership Resource Center and FEN worked together to create a pamphlet with reliable and important information on foreclosure. It may help with understanding the foreclosure process and what options and resources are available. You can submit the following request form until DECEMBER 13TH to order printed copies of the Foreclosure Prevention trifold pamphlet, available in multiple languages! Please note that free printing and shipping will no longer be offered after this date. bit.ly/foreclosure-trifold The flyer is also available to download for free from Financial Empowerment Network: fenwa.org/housing #FinancialEmpowerment #FinancialWellbeing #FinancialAccess

We're a little behind, but this information is evergreen! Please take a look at our October Partner Spotlight, Financial Beginnings Washington! FB provides personal financial education through partner organization volunteers. Interested in brining financial education to your community or organization? Financial Beginnings might be able to help! Learn more at https://lnkd.in/gGXu3mXG #FinancialEducation #FinancialWellbeing #Partnerships #FinancialInclusion #FinancialEmpowerment Jason Rothkowitz

Don't forget - the WA Financial Coaching Network's final meeting of 2024 has a date change - our Nov/Dec meeting will be Wednesday December 4th 2-3:30. Join us as we send off the year with reflections on 2024 and intention-setting for 2025. We're looking forward to hearing the stories of success and the lessons from growth that brought us to our current work. And we'll hear from our partner spotlight, WaFd Bank. Not signed up for the WA Financial Coaching Network? Get on the list here: https://bit.ly/3Pkd7fX #financialcoaching #financialbelonging #financialwellbeing #financialempowerment Thushari Gooneratne, MBA Abby McCutcheon

ICYMI - last week FEN and the Statewide Poverty Action Network hosted a workshop on policy advocacy. If you are feeling any interest or energy around making change within our government and for our communities, take a look at this training with advocacy tools and strategies you can use! Watch now: https://lnkd.in/gxmyKArP Plus, save the date for Statewide Poverty Action Network's annual Advocacy Day on Monday January 20th 2025. More information will be available soon! #FinancialBelonging #FinancialInclusion #Civics #FinancialEmpowerment #FinancialEducation #FinancialWellbeing

Have you heard? There is a new WA Native American Chamber of Commerce? WaNACC launched earlier in 2024 to support American Indian and Alaska Native owned businesses within Washington State. Learn more here: www.WaNACC.org #FinancialInclusion #FinancialBelonging #FinancialEmpowerment #FinancialWellbeing

The Washington Homeownership Resource Center (WHRC) has created free materials you can share with your community for those who are facing roadblocks to homeownership. WHRC, through their hotline, website, and online portal, provides clients statewide with personalized information and referral to vetted homeownership supports, including: -Homebuyer assistance programs -Pre-purchase education and counseling -Mortgage, property tax, and HOA foreclosure prevention counseling -Reverse mortgage counseling -Repair assistance and home modification -Post-purchase education and assistance -Legal aid -Credit counseling Learn more about WHRC here: https://lnkd.in/gMd5bkaT Access their free materials here: - Facing a Roadblock? https://lnkd.in/gHC72AR3 - WHRC 1-pager: https://lnkd.in/g52HrVQV #Homeownership #FinancialBelonging #FinancialWellbeing #FinancialEmpowerment

ICYMI - In September FEN was excited to provide a workshop for HUD partners across the country! Check out the recording of "Coaching Mindsets in Tough Money Conversations," presented by Charnell Morud with Verity Credit Union, Raquel Munguia with Washington Homeownership Resource Center, Devin Stubblefield with Faith Finance Center, and facilitated by Ryan Davis, Financial Empowerment Network. Watch now! https://loom.ly/wR0SfRU Working with people who are experiencing resource scarcity can involve a lot of tough conversations. This gets harder when clients share their experiences of trauma or when we as practitioners aren’t sure how to balance the relationship with the program goals and deadlines. Listen as the speakers: -Share how to develop expertise in building trust with clients to strengthen the coaching relationship -Strategies to remain authentic while receiving traumatic stories in an open and curious manner -Explore how incorporating coaching mindsets can improve program outcomes and support client goals -Discuss how client values shape their long-term financial decisions #FinancialWellbeing #FinancialCoaching #FinancialEmpowerment #FinancialBelonging

Individual Development Accounts (IDAs) are a proven method for increasing assets for low-income and financially vulnerable families. Federal funding was cut for this program about a decade ago, but work is happening to bring some IDAs back to Washington State! Read more about the project here: https://lnkd.in/eMTT6RqJ #financialempowerment #financialbelonging #FinancialWellbeing