Empowerment CAFÉ

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Empowerment CAFÉ

Why Subscribe? 

The Empowerment CAFÉ is not just a forum; it's your gateway to becoming an active participant in shaping the future of financial counselling in Canada. By subscribing, you are joining a select community of dedicated professionals committed to advancing the Canadian approach to financial literacy and counselling. Your involvement ensures that the highest standards of ethical practice are maintained and that you have direct access to exclusive resources, networking opportunities, and professional development.

Action-Oriented Focus:

  • Collaborate and Innovate: Engage with other AFCCs to share insights, strategies, and innovative practices that enhance your professional skills.

  • Build a Network: Develop meaningful connections with peers and industry leaders who can support your growth and help you make a greater impact in your community.

  • Influence the Future: Participate in discussions that directly influence the policies and practices within the financial counselling profession.

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Subscriber Only Benefits

As a subscriber, you’re not just supporting CAFE; you’re actively investing in your future and the future of financial counselling in Canada. The benefits are designed to provide you with the tools, resources, and opportunities to excel in your role. Whether it’s gaining access to industry news, special discounts, or participating in our annual conference, your subscription unlocks a world of opportunities.

Action-Oriented Focus:

  • Exclusive Content: Receive weekly updates, industry insights, and access to the latest research in financial counselling.

  • Discounted Learning: Take advantage of special discounts on conference registrations and learning labs, allowing you to continue your education at a reduced cost.

  • Direct Impact: Your subscription fees go directly into enhancing the services and supports that AFCCs rely on, ensuring that we continue to lead in financial empowerment.

Secure Communities

for Specialized Areas of Practice

Your experience and knowledge are invaluable, and this forum provides a secure space where you can contribute to specialized discussions that matter most to you. Whether you're part of the Indigenous community or have a focus on another specialized area, this is where your voice can be amplified.

Action-Oriented Focus:

  • Specialized Forums: Join focused groups that align with your interests or community, such as Indigenous financial literacy, to discuss challenges, share best practices, and develop strategies that address specific needs.

  • Confidential Exchange: Engage in secure, confidential conversations that allow for honest and open discussions without fear of external judgment.

  • Community Leadership: Take a leadership role within your specialized community by guiding discussions, proposing new ideas, and supporting others in their professional journey.

For You. By You.

Your role as an AFCC Candidate or Alumni is not just a designation; it’s a commitment to enhancing the financial well-being of Canadians. The AFCC is a program built by the best practices of those who came before.  It is by the best of you today that will shape the designation for the future of the profession.

By subscribing to initiatives with CAFE, you are directly supporting our non-profit mission.  Align yourself with an organization that is dedicated to elevating the standards of financial literacy and counselling across the country. Your subscription is also a statement that you are committed to being a leader in this field, and that you believe in the need for the ethical and competent practices in Canada. To hold the standard and expected professionalism within any environment where financial literacy, education or counselling exists.  Regardless of what name is applied to a profession or role, the practices and client care of any who hold the AFCC is clear. 

Subscribe and participate.

This platform is for you to be the Canadian representation of excellence.

We can’t do it without you.

  • Use the Empowerment CAFÉ to access the latest trends, opportunities, participate in mentoring programs, and gain recognition as a leader in financial literacy and counselling.

  • Be at the forefront of advocacy efforts that promote the value of financial literacy and counselling to broader audiences, ensuring that the profession remains relevant and impactful.

  • CAFE represents and prioritizes diversity, inclusion and embracing the fullness and uniqueness that is at the very foundation of our country. Speciality groups that require secure spaces for sensitive discussions and strategy formation will be honoured and supported, with the understanding that CAFE Team Members will be advised by the AFCC® Leader for the group regarding access and inclusion. Welcoming, appreciating, and showcasing the diverse cultures in Canada is essential, as these perspectives profoundly influence and must inform financial literacy and counselling approaches for the nuance needed by those very people(s)/communities. CAFE leans on our AFCC Leaders of those communities to steer that charge.

  • By subscribing, you contribute to a broader mission of financial empowerment, making a tangible difference in the lives of those who need it most.

  • AFCC practitioners who wish to become a subscriber can also benefit through accessing an area exclusively for current Candidates in any of the AFCC Pathways. Connect and discuss with your peers in addition to attending our AFCC Candidate Corner Video Meetings.  Once a candidate has successfully earned their AFCC credential, their subscription access will be shifted into the access of an AFCC Designee.

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  • Joining our movement means everything to us and we're excited to work with the experts that represent our AFCC® and truly crack through and into a new era for Financial Literacy and Empowerment through certification in Canada.

  • Updated News, AFCC® Spotlights, Industry and Partner Adjacent Updates and ongoing communications through the many pathways of our new website. Stay tuned as all phases are launched!

  • The secure AFCC® Exclusive Community of Excellence for Canadians.

  • AFCC® News and Industry Updates. This news section not only bring you current on latest trends and Canadian legislative changes to keep you in the know, but it will also be a space for AFCC®s that are subscribed Author Access (Authors must have their AFCC® in Good Standard to be both a subscriber and a considered author for www.cafe-acaf.org

  • Subscribers at differing Subscriber Levels will receive ongoing perks and promotional codes specific to you that you can use towards any CAFE paywalled service or AFCC® Program Registration. Stay tuned for more.

  • Have the leadership and space to dedicate yourself to CAFE? Be the AFCC® Expert Thought Leader we know you to be and in subscribing be eligible for nomination for all of our current and future committees and our Board of Directors.

  • Use of the CAFE official logo as well as the AFCC Certified Logo to ensure that the public know who you are, clearly on your website, email signatures and more.

    CAFE Team includes commercial designers and programming engineers who can assist you as needed.

  • The AFCC® Learning Lab is almost ready for launch.

    We will have a section for education available to the public and CEO Pre-Approved events that were provided by Sponsored Community members.

    Additional Learning Labs pertaining to your AFCC Designation will be launching every month.

    AFCC''s are also encouraged to step forward and let us help you in creating your own special Learning Lab that speaks to what it is that you do that may be different or the same for your clients in Canada.

Stand With Us and Help.

Help Us Deliver Change

The AFCC Program embodies the highest standards of the financial literacy and counselling profession. Your active participation is crucial to our collective success. You represent the needs that are specific to the community you represent.

Together, we can ensure that all Canadians receive the support they need while knowing that dedicated professionals like you are there, ready to make a difference.

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