Module 4: Financial Literacy & Overcoming Economic Abuse Video Presentation

Module 4 of the Empowering Survivor Entrepreneurs initiative developed by Ladies Empowered with Resources focuses on financial literacy, economic empowerment, and understanding the long-term impact of economic abuse within entrepreneurship and financial recovery journeys.

This training helps providers, advocates, coaches, and support professionals recognize how trauma and economic abuse may influence financial decision-making, budgeting, saving, credit challenges, business investment fears, financial anxiety, scarcity thinking, risk avoidance, and long-term planning.

Participants explore how survivors may experience barriers to entrepreneurship due to financial instability, debt, damaged credit, limited access to resources, or past experiences involving financial control and manipulation. The module introduces trauma-informed financial empowerment strategies that prioritize emotional safety, practical support, flexibility, survivor autonomy, and sustainable economic growth.

Topics include budgeting, financial boundaries, rebuilding confidence around money, identifying economic abuse patterns, understanding trauma-related financial behaviors, resource mapping, business financial planning, and creating supportive financial empowerment environments for survivors.

Through practical examples, case studies, reflective activities, worksheets, and implementation tools, participants gain strategies for supporting survivors in rebuilding financial stability while pursuing entrepreneurship and long-term economic empowerment.

This training is designed for transitional housing providers, victim service organizations, entrepreneurship coaches, workforce development professionals, social service agencies, faith-based organizations, financial empowerment programs, advocates, case managers, and multidisciplinary professionals supporting survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, stalking, human trafficking, economic abuse, and other traumatic experiences.

Materials may be used for educational and implementation support purposes.