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Life$avings: Financial Empowerment for Survivors of Domestic Violence

Life$avings is a financial literacy program meant to equip survivors of domestic abuse with knowledge, skills, and the support necessary for long-term financial security. In this course, we’ll work on:

  • Establishing a healthy relationship with money

  • Banking basics

  • Managing your money

  • Raising your credit score

  • Establishing financial independence

  • Financial futures for kids (for caregivers of children)

Traumatic Effects of Money

Instructors are undergoing training from Trauma of Money™ and will start offering this course as certified trainers in early 2024.

Topics for this course include:

  • Money and social justice

  • Money disorders

  • Systemic and intergenerational trauma

  • Access to capital and generational wealth

  • Psychology of scarcity and abundance

  • Racial wealth gap

  • Money and relationships

All courses are virtual. The Introductory Course must be completed before all other courses. Enroll now.

View the schedule of courses.


Questions, please contact Todd Merendino at 720.248.4656.