AFOA Canada has developed financial wellness webinars and learning resources to support Claimants of this Settlement. These materials provide general, culturally relevant financial information to help Claimants prepare and manage their compensation. Resources include webinar recordings, downloadable factsheets, and printable worksheets for those who have received or will receive Settlement compensation. New content is added regularly.
Upcoming webinars
Catch up on previous series
These webinars and resources are designed to support your journey toward financial stability and personal wellness. By blending practical tools with trauma-informed, culturally grounded perspectives, we aim to help you navigate your financial planning with confidence.
1. Preparing for your Settlement payment
- Understand your current financial picture.
- Build confidence for what may come next with your settlement payment.
- Learn about a protective 90-day pause strategy.
- Reduce pressure around immediate financial decisions.
- Explore next steps that support your financial wellness.
2. A Two-Eyed Seeing Path to Budgeting
- Learn about the Two-Eyed Seeing (Etuaptmumk) approach to budgeting.
- Explore budgeting through a trauma-informed and culturally grounded lens.
- Combine practical western financial tools with Indigenous values.
- Build financial approaches that support healing and stability.
- Develop strategies for planning for the future.
Additional resources
Download Preparing for Your Settlement Payment: Your Questions Answered ↗
These webinars and resources empower you to navigate your financial journey by aligning your goals with your core values while building confidence in managing credit and debt. They provide practical information to help you process upcoming settlement payments.
1. Charting Your Vision: Values-Based Goal Setting
- Revisit the Two-Eyed Seeing approach to budgeting.
- Align your financial plan with your hopes, responsibilities, and priorities.
- Explore ways to set short, medium, and long-term financial goals.
- Balance immediate financial needs with future priorities.
- Plan with the well-being of future generations in mind.
Download Charting Your Vision: A Values-Based Reflection Worksheet ↗
2. Navigating the System: Credit, Debt, and Protection
- Explore how the Western credit system works.
- Understand how credit connects to your financial choices.
- Learn why credit exists and how it functions.
- Explore how credit can impact financial mobility.
- Build knowledge to support financial empowerment and protection.
Download Building Financial Strength: A Guide to Money Terms ↗
Additional resources
These webinars are designed to help you manage the complex emotional and relational dynamics of receiving a sudden compensation payment. By introducing practical tools, these materials empower you to identify emotional manipulation, establish a trusted circle of support, and confidently set healthy financial boundaries with your loved ones.
1. Protecting Yourself: Managing Personal Pressure
- Explore how new financial realities can affect relationships.
- Learn how to manage financial pressure.
- Develop strategies for setting healthy boundaries.
- Build confidence in navigating changing relationship dynamics.
2. Putting Protection into Practice: Relational Scenarios
- See boundary-setting in action through guided examples.
- Explore common situations recipients may face.
- Learn to navigate pressure rooted in guilt, fear, obligation, and shame.
- Find the words to approach difficult conversations.
- Build confidence to navigate these conversations safely.
Download Managing Pressure: A Practice Guide ↗
Download Managing Pressure: A Facilitator’s Guide for Community Conversations ↗
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Related resources
Free mental health and wellness supports are available 24 hours a day through the Hope for Wellness Helpline at 1‑855‑242‑3310.
Children and youth can also call the Kids Help Phone anytime at 1-800-668-6868 or text FIRSTNATIONS to 686868.
