Embedding Financial Help Services into Healthcare Working Group has been established as a working group of the Manitoba Financial Empowerment Network (MFEN).
Expand the scale and scope of financial help services in health care settings;
Achieve positive policy and institutional change to address barriers.
Recognizing that financial wellbeing is a determinant of health, the committee will work to increase access to financial help services within healthcare systems for financially vulnerable Manitobans. These services include access to identification, tax filing, financial coaching/counselling, and access to benefits and income supports programs. This will be achieved through:
Grounding our work in the priorities identified by lived experience experts
Identifying promising practices and service delivery models for the provision of financial help services in health care settings
Supporting the replication and scaling of promising practices and service delivery models
Developing and evaluating the effectiveness of innovative approaches to embedding financial empowerment services based on best practices
Securing resources to support enhanced financial help service delivery
Engaging in joint knowledge mobilization and problem-solving sessions
Working with community organizations and across systems to address gaps in service provision
Supporting positive policy and institutional change to address barriers