{"id":733,"date":"2014-10-16T15:40:25","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T20:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.creditaid.ca\/blog\/?p=733"},"modified":"2014-10-16T15:40:25","modified_gmt":"2014-10-16T20:40:25","slug":"working-together-toward-financial-literacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.creditaid.ca\/blog\/2014\/10\/16\/working-together-toward-financial-literacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Working Together Toward Financial Literacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tBrian Denysuik, President &amp; CEO of Creditaid, Manitoba&#8217;s largest independent credit counselling agency, had the pleasure of attending two events today with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fcac-acfc.gc.ca\/eng\/pages\/home-accueil.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Financial Consumer Agency of Canada<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The first event was the launch of the senior&#8217;s strategy for financial literacy.\u00a0The seniors\u2019 strategy, Strengthening Seniors\u2019 Financial Literacy, is the first phase of the national strategy for financial literacy. \u00a0Its publication follows a series of consultations with a broad range of public, private and non-profit organizations as well as individual Canadians. The strategy sets out goals relevant to increasing the financial literacy of seniors. More information can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seniors.gc.ca\/eng\/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Sorenson, the Honorable Minister of Finance and Jane Rooney, our National Financial Literacy Leader were in Winnipeg for this event.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.creditaid.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Jane-Rooney-and-Kevin-Sorensen-Oct-16-Financial-Literacy.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-734\" alt=\"Jane-Rooney-and-Kevin-Sorensen---Oct-16-Financial-Literacy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.creditaid.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Jane-Rooney-and-Kevin-Sorensen-Oct-16-Financial-Literacy.png\" width=\"480\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.creditaid.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Jane-Rooney-and-Kevin-Sorensen-Oct-16-Financial-Literacy.png 600w, https:\/\/www.creditaid.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Jane-Rooney-and-Kevin-Sorensen-Oct-16-Financial-Literacy-300x215.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The event provided the opportunity to participate in a stakeholder consultation session on strengthening the financial literacy of specific priority groups. Stakeholders in attendance were able to offer feedback and commentary to both Jane Rooney and Minister Sorenson.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.creditaid.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Working-Group-Oct-16-Financial-Literacy-Event.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-735\" alt=\"Working-Group---Oct-16-Financial-Literacy-Event\" src=\"https:\/\/www.creditaid.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Working-Group-Oct-16-Financial-Literacy-Event.png\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.creditaid.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Working-Group-Oct-16-Financial-Literacy-Event.png 600w, https:\/\/www.creditaid.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Working-Group-Oct-16-Financial-Literacy-Event-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It was evident that financial literacy is a critically significant issue for our federal government.<\/p>\n<p>Please refer to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.creditaid.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Toward-a-Financial-Literacy-Strategy-for-Priority-Groups-ENG.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Toward a Financial Literacy Strategy for Priority Groups<\/a>\u00a0for more information on the strategy goals.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Denysiuk will also be attending the by-invitation-only <a title=\"National Conference on Financial Literacy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.creditaid.ca\/blog\/2014\/09\/national-conference-on-financial-literacy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Conference on Financial Literacy<\/a>, to be held in Vancouver in November.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Denysuik, President &amp; CEO of Creditaid, Manitoba&#8217;s largest independent credit counselling agency, had the pleasure of attending two events today with the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada. The first event was the launch of the senior&#8217;s strategy for financial literacy.\u00a0The seniors\u2019 strategy, Strengthening Seniors\u2019 Financial Literacy, is the first phase of the national strategy &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.creditaid.ca\/blog\/2014\/10\/16\/working-together-toward-financial-literacy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Working Together Toward Financial Literacy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[195,204,211,253],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creditaid.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creditaid.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creditaid.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creditaid.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creditaid.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.creditaid.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creditaid.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creditaid.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creditaid.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}