This session will provide an overview of two action-oriented resources to reduce financial strain and promote long-term financial wellbeing developed in an international partnership led by the Centre for Healthy Communities (School of Public Health, University of Alberta). The resources are meant to support organizations from diverse sectors and all levels of government in designing, implementing, and assessing/evaluating their initiatives related to financial strain and financial wellbeing. Join us to learn more about how the resources were developed and how they can be applied in practice.

1. Welcome!
• This webinar will be recorded.
• Your microphone and camera will be turned off for the duration of the
webinar.
• To ensure accessibility, live captions can be enabled from the control
panel.

2. October 20, 2022
Presenter: Dr. Candace Nykiforuk
Facilitator: Karlene Stoby
Applying Action-Oriented Resources to Reduce Financial
Strain and Promote Financial Wellbeing

3. Housekeeping
• Connection issues
• We recommend using a wired Internet
Connection
• If you are experiencing technical issues please
send a private message to Alanna Miller
• Use the Q&A and chat to post questions
and/or comments throughout the webinar
• Post your questions in the Q&A
• Send questions about technical difficulties in a
private chat to Alanna Miller
• Polling

4. After Today
After the webinar, access the recording (in English) at
www.youtube.com/nccmt and slides in English and French at
www.slideshare.net/NCCMT/presentations.

5. Pre-webinar Polling Questions
1.How many people are watching today’s session with you?
A) Just Me
B) 2-3
C) 4-5
D) 6-10
E) >10
2. Have you visited the National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools’ website or used its resources before?
A) Yes
B) No
3. If you stated YES on the previous question, how many times have you used the NCCMT’s resources?
A) Once
B) 2-3 times
C) 4-10 times
D) 10+ times

7. NCCMT Products and Services
Registry of Methods and Tools
Online Learning
Opportunities
Workshops
Video Series
Public Health+
Networking and
Outreach

8. Presenter
Dr. Candace Nykiforuk

9. Centre for Healthy Communities
School of Public Health
Applying Action-Oriented Resources to Reduce Financial
Strain and Promote Financial Wellbeing
Candace Nykiforuk, PhD, CE
Scientific Director and Professor
Centre for Healthy Communities, School of Public Health, University of Alberta
uab.ca/chc
October 20, 2022

10. Centre for Healthy Communities
School of Public Health
Outline
• Background
• Research-practice collaboration
• Definitions of Financial Wellbeing and Financial Strain
• Introducing the Framework and Guidebook
• Applying the Framework and Guidebook

11. Centre for Healthy Communities
School of Public Health
Background

12. Centre for Healthy Communities
School of Public Health
Structural factors
• Deterioration of welfare systems
• High costs of living
• Housing crisis
• Increased rates of impoverishment
• Structural unemployment
Background
COVID-19 pandemic hit
• Financial fallout of the pandemic felt across
the socioeconomic spectrum, but concentrated
among disadvantaged groups (e.g., BIPOC
people, LGBTQ2S+ communities)
• Risks to intergenerational economic mobility
and equity

13. Centre for Healthy Communities
School of Public Health
Financial Consumer Agency of Canada. Summary of findings COVID-19 surveys: Financial impact of the pandemic on Canadians [internet]. Ottawa: Financial Consumer Agency of Canada. [updated in February 2022; cited 2022-04-05].Available from:
https://www.canada.ca/en/financial-consumer-agency/corporate/covid-19/summary-covid-19-surveys.html.

14. Centre for Healthy Communities
School of Public Health
Financial Consumer Agency of Canada. Summary of findings COVID-19 surveys: Financial impact of the pandemic on Canadians [internet]. Ottawa: Financial Consumer Agency of Canada. [updated in February 2022; cited 2022-04-05].Available from:
https://www.canada.ca/en/financial-consumer-agency/corporate/covid-19/summary-covid-19-surveys.html.

15. Centre for Healthy Communities
School of Public Health
Financial Consumer Agency of Canada. Summary of findings COVID-19 surveys: Financial impact of the pandemic on Canadians [internet]. Ottawa: Financial Consumer Agency of Canada. [updated in February 2022; cited 2022-04-05].Available from:
https://www.canada.ca/en/financial-consumer-agency/corporate/covid-19/summary-covid-19-surveys.html.

16. Centre for Healthy Communities
School of Public Health
Financial Consumer Agency of Canada. Summary of findings COVID-19 surveys: Financial impact of the pandemic on Canadians [internet]. Ottawa: Financial Consumer Agency of Canada. [updated in February 2022; cited 2022-04-05].Available from:
https://www.canada.ca/en/financial-consumer-agency/corporate/covid-19/summary-covid-19-surveys.html.

17. Centre for Healthy Communities
School of Public Health
Financial Consumer Agency of Canada. Summary of findings COVID-19 surveys: Financial impact of the pandemic on Canadians [internet]. Ottawa: Financial Consumer Agency of Canada. [updated in February 2022; cited 2022-04-05].Available from:
https://www.canada.ca/en/financial-consumer-agency/corporate/covid-19/summary-covid-19-surveys.html.

18. Centre for Healthy Communities
School of Public Health
Morneau Shepell. The Financial Wellbeing Index Report. Morneau Shepell; 2021 January 2021.

19. Centre for Healthy Communities
School of Public Health
Financial Strain and Health
Negative impacts on physical, mental, and social health and overall wellbeing:
• food insecurity
• depression
• anxiety
• cardiovascular diseases
• family conflict
• disengagement from social life
• low sense of self-identify

20. Centre for Healthy Communities
School of Public Health
Public Health Need
• Causes of causes of financial strain and poor financial wellbeing
• Tangible strategies and resources to inform action from government and organizations acting
and support long-lasting positive impacts on people’s financial circumstances and health
• Moving away from solutions linked to behavioural change

21. Goal
To develop an action-oriented public health framework and accompanying guidebook of
strategies and indicators to provide government and organizations with guidance on the design,
delivery, and assessment of initiatives related to financial strain and financial wellbeing.
Centre for Healthy Communities
School of Public Health

22. Centre for Healthy Communities
School of Public Health
Research-practice collaboration

23. Multi-method project
Rapid Realist Review
• Academic literature (n=39)
• Practice-based literature
(n=36)
Policy Scan
• Canada (n=213)
• Australia (n=97)
Literature Review of
Existing Financial Well-
being Frameworks
(n=14)
Draft
Framework
Practice
Advisory
Committee
Research
Team
Revised
Framework
Draft
Guidebook
Revised
Guidebook
Stakeholders
Development Development & Validation
Practice
Advisory
Committee
Research
Team
Stakeholders
Critical
Literature
Review
Development Development & Validation End-of-grant KT
2020 CIHR COVID-19 Rapid Research Funding Opportunity
Integrated Knowledge Translation

24. Multi-method project
Rapid Realist Review
• Academic literature (n=39)
• Practice-based literature
(n=36)
Policy Scan
• Canada (n=213)
• Australia (n=97)
Literature Review of
Existing Financial Well-
being Frameworks
(n=14)
Draft
Framework
Practice
Advisory
Committee
Research
Team
Revised
Framework
Draft
Guidebook
Revised
Guidebook
Stakeholders
Development Development & Validation
Practice
Advisory
Committee
Research
Team
Stakeholders
Critical
Literature
Review
Development Development & Validation KT
Integrated Knowledge Translation
Integrated Knowledge Translation

25. Multi-method project
Rapid Realist Review
• Academic literature (n=39)
• Practice-based literature
(n=36)
Policy Scan
• Canada (n=213)
• Australia (n=97)
Literature Review of
Existing Financial Well-
being Frameworks
(n=14)
Draft
Framework
Practice
Advisory
Committee
Research
Team
Revised
Framework
Draft
Guidebook
Revised
Guidebook
Stakeholders
Development Development & Validation
Practice
Advisory
Committee
Research
Team
Stakeholders
Critical
Literature
Review
Development Development & Validation KT
Integrated Knowledge Translation
Integrated Knowledge Translation

26. Multi-method project
Rapid Realist Review
• Academic literature (n=39)
• Practice-based literature
(n=36)
Policy Scan
• Canada (n=213)
• Australia (n=97)
Literature Review of
Existing Financial Well-
being Frameworks
(n=14)
Draft
Framework
Practice
Advisory
Committee
Research
Team
Revised
Framework
Draft
Guidebook
Revised
Guidebook
Stakeholders
Development Development & Validation
Practice
Advisory
Committee
Research
Team
Stakeholders
Critical
Literature
Review
Development Development & Validation KT
Integrated Knowledge Translation
Integrated Knowledge Translation

27. Multi-method project
Rapid Realist Review
• Academic literature (n=39)
• Practice-based literature
(n=36)
Policy Scan
• Canada (n=213)
• Australia (n=97)
Literature Review of
Existing Financial Well-
being Frameworks
(n=14)
Draft
Framework
Practice
Advisory
Committee
Research
Team
Revised
Framework
Draft
Guidebook
Revised
Guidebook
Stakeholders
Development Development & Validation
Practice
Advisory
Committee
Research
Team
Stakeholders
Critical
Literature
Review
Development Development & Validation KT
Integrated Knowledge Translation
Integrated Knowledge Translation

28. Centre for Healthy Communities
School of Public Health
• Group and Individual Meetings
• Redcap Survey
• Workshops

29. Centre for Healthy Communities
School of Public Health
Definitions of Financial Wellbeing and
Financial Strain

30. Centre for Healthy Communities
School of Public Health

31. Centre for Healthy Communities
School of Public Health
Introducing the Framework and Guidebook

32. Centre for Healthy Communities
School of Public Health
Framework
• Presents:
• 17 entry points for action (high priority areas for intervention)
• Organized into 5 domains
• Offers specific information on:
• 62 targets (where to act);
• 140 strategies (what to do); and,
• Sample indicators (how to assess progress or success of
strategies).
Guidebook

33. Framework
• Contribute to a better understanding of the political, socioeconomic,
and cultural causes and consequences of financial wellbeing and
financial strain and their dynamic interrelationships at the community
and population levels.
• Present entry points for action that are more likely to have positive
long-lasting effects on people’s financial situation.
• Prompt opportunities for joint action across governments and
organizations for an optimal, integrated response to financial strain
and poor financial wellbeing.

35. Domain – Government (All Levels)

36. Domain – Organizational & Political Culture

37. Domain – Socioeconomic & Political Context

38. Domain – Social & Cultural Circumstances

39. Domain – Life Circumstances

45. Centre for Healthy Communities
School of Public Health

46. Guidebook
• Provide high-level guidance on the design, implementation, and
assessment or evaluation of initiatives.
• Inform, assist, and strengthen initiatives related to financial strain or
financial wellbeing, regardless of their focus (e.g., financial inclusion,
childcare provision), target audiences (e.g., LGBTQ2+ people), level
of intervention (e.g., individual or structural level), and organization
type (e.g., public health agencies) or government bodies delivering
those initiatives.
• Encourage partnerships for multisectoral action on financial wellbeing
and financial strain (including addressing poverty and basic needs).

65. Centre for Healthy Communities
School of Public Health
Target Users
• Private and not-for-profit organizations
• Municipal, state/provincial/territorial, and federal governments
• Academia and research centres

66. Available in French
Available at: uab.ca/chc

67. Centre for Healthy Communities
School of Public Health
Future Work*
• Validation of applicability of the Guidebook
• Development of logic models to show how the Guidebook can be used by different
stakeholders
• Further refinement of the Guidebook as needed
• Development of an interactive website to support the Framework and Guidebook resources
*Pending future funding (applications are submitted and being developed).

68. Centre for Healthy Communities
School of Public Health
Thank you
For more information: uab.ca/chc
Connect with us: healthy.communities@ualberta.ca

69. Centre for Healthy Communities
School of Public Health

70. Share your story!
• Are you using EIDM in your practice? We want to hear about it!
• Email us: nccmt@mcmaster.ca
• Need support for EIDM? Contact us for help!
• Email us: nccmt@mcmaster.ca
• We typically respond within 24 business hours
9

71. Webinar Feedback
Your responses will be kept anonymous.
Please indicate your level of agreement with the following:
1. Participating in the webinar increased my knowledge and understanding of evidence-informed decision
making.
2. I will use the information from today’s webinar in my own practice.
3. Which of the following statements apply to your experience with the webinar today (check all that
apply):
□ The webinar was relevant to me and my public health practice
□ The webinar was effectively facilitated
□ The webinar had opportunities to participate
□ The webinar was easy to follow along
□ The webinar met my expectations
Strongly agree Agree Undecided Disagree Strongly Disagree
Strongly agree Agree Undecided Disagree Strongly Disagree

72. Webinars from the NCCMT
Learn more about our webinars:
http://www.nccmt.ca/capacity-development/webinars
11

73. For more information:
NCCMT website: www.nccmt.ca
Contact: nccmt@mcmaster.ca