The Professionalizing Field of Financial Counseling and Coaching Journal

READ ESSAYS ON ACCOUNTABILITY:

ACCOUNTABILITY

Accountability is critical to ensuring clients are achieving meaningful results and demonstrating the impact of financial counseling and coaching. The essays in this pillar highlight how accountability measures can foster a more effective profession by standardizing outcomes, building and disseminating field consensus on how to measure success, and incorporating data and research into program models to identify best practices.

READ ESSAYS ON ACCOUNTABILITY

Accountability and Public Funding of Financial Counseling

The Mayor highlights the importance of accountability for public investment in financial counseling

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Virgil Bernero

Mayor, City of Lansing

The Importance of Quality Control and Data Collection at Kansas State University’s Powercat Financial Counseling

This essay explores an approach to using data for counseling accountability.

Sonya Britt

Associate Professor, Kansas State University

Jodi Kaus

Director of Powercat Financial Counseling, Kansas State University

Standardizing Outcome Measures in a Client-Centered Field

The authors make the case for standardized outcome measures.

Hallie Lienhardt

Outreach Specialist, Center for Financial Security at the University of Wisconsin - Madison

Regina Salliey

Program Associate, Center for Community and Economic Opportunity at the Annie E. Casey Foundation

J. Michael Collins

Faculty Director, Center for Financial Security at the University of Wisconsin - Madison

Annika Little

Deputy Director, Asset Funders Network

A Financial Counselor’s Reflection on What Makes a Professional Counselor – Accountability is Key

This financial counselor discusses the role that accountability plays in quality counseling.

Jim Crain

Homeowner Services Assistant, Saginaw-Shiawassee Habitat for Humanity

THE FOUR KEY PILLARS OF PROFESSIONALIZATION

QUALITY:

Training, professional development, and certification for practitioners and programs.

CONSISTENCY:

Service delivery models and the underlying data systems that support them.

ACCOUNTABILITY:

Standardized outcome definitions and data collection to understand program impact.

COMMUNITY:

Local, state, and national stakeholder networks that support and develop practitioner efforts.

Measuring the Journey to Financial Stability

A funder offers her perspective on the importance of outcomes.

Anne Guthrie

Community Investment Officer, Central Indiana Community Foundation

Professional Accountability: A Data-Assisted Model for Financial Counseling

The author recommends a financial counseling outcome model.

Edmund Khashadourian

Principal, Opportunity to Assets

Strength in Numbers: Building a Network of High-Quality Coaching and Integrated Services Provider

The authors outline program model components that support counseling accountability.

Seung Kim

Program Director, Local Initiative Support Corporation

Katrin Kärk

Program Officer, Local Initiative Support Corporation

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ACCOUNTABILITY
Standardized outcome definitions
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understand program impact.
CONSISTENCY
Service delivery models and
the underlying data systems
that support them.
COMMUNITY
Local, state, and national
stakeholder networks that support
and develop practitioner efforts.

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