Series - Editorial Fellowship: Women's Economic Resilience

Can a psych-based finance course help women, non-binary, and trans people heal from the trauma of COVID’s economic crises?

Author Sherlyn Assam
Trauma of Money is an online program that launched in 2019 to heal individual and collective financial trauma – then the pandemic hit one year later

Why It Matters

COVID-19 has 70 percent of Canadians concerned about their ability to pay bills and Canada has a gendered poverty problem — understanding their trauma around money could be a step towards financial literacy.

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