Hoops 4 Wealth

Building financial capability and resilience for people on low-incomes in the Northern Territory

BSL is collaborating with Hoops 4 Health (H4H), a First Nations led organisation based in the Northern Territory, as part of an action research project: Building Financial Capability and Resilience for Low-income People in the Northern Territory. Funded by DSS, the project aims to enhance the financial capability and resilience of people on low incomes living in the Northern Territory.

Following extensive scoping and learning, we have partnered with H4H to further develop the Hoops 4 Wealth (H4W) program. H4W is a financial-capability program that is peer-led, healing-centred and trauma-informed. The program approach brings together First Nations practice wisdom and neuroscience to support wellbeing, re-empowerment and resilience.

BSL and H4H have co-designed the evaluation approach to support the development of the H4W program. The research and evaluation will focus on:

• Gathering insights about how a healing-centred, trauma and culturally informed financial capability-building program contributes to building financial resilience and capability.

• Documenting short-term outcomes for participants and their communities.

• Examining the enablers of and barriers to implementing a healing-centred, trauma and culturally informed financial capability-building program.

• Understanding how the program can be further adapted and enhanced.

For more information about the research and evaluation, please contact Dr Dina Bowman dbowman@bsl.org.au or Dr Margaret Kabare Margaret.Kabare@bsl.org.au