EQUITY e-newsletter: Summer 2006

Accessible Financial Literacy

New Century Workers with Disabilities: Why Financial Education Matters for Americans with Disabilities

Johnette Hartnett, National Disability Institute & University of Iowa, provides information on groundbreaking new research underway helping individuals with disabilities gain access to financial education and asset building opportunities. Dr. Hartnett asserts that access to financial knowledge, services and products is essential for individuals with disabilities to build true economic security in the new century.

WID'S Access to Assets Project partners with CFED for the 2006 Assets Learning Conference

Join the World Institute on Disability and CFED (Corporation For Enterprise Development) this September at the largest conference ever convened and learn how low-income people can build assets.

THIS IS MINE! A Financial Literacy Curriculum Developed by and for People with Cognitive Disabilities

Emily Fuerste, co-founder of No Place Like Home Communities (NPLHC), illustrates how the exceptional THIS IS MINE! financial literacy curriculum was developed in partnership with people with cognitive disabilities and focuses on both economic and emotional equity.

A Life Less Ordinary

After an accident left Mary with a Traumatic Brain Injury, she had a hard time adjusting to living a different kind of life. Now, she is proving that sometimes finding the right accommodations can make all the difference in the world.

Learning Styles- Ensuring Accessible Financial Literacy for All

Here are three tips to help increase the success of all participants.

EQUITY Responds: Answers to common questions received from either the Asset Building Community or the Disability Community

I'm a benefits specialist working with people with disabilities, what is the first step for my consumers to become financially literate and economically self-sufficient?