Centers for Working Families
Core Program Elements
Indianapolis LISC's Center for
Working Families
Centers for Working Families are career and personal financial service centers that focus on the financial bottom line for low-to-moderate income individuals. This means changing people's financial behavior in a way that encourages them to make a long-term commitment to increasing income, decreasing expenses and acquiring assets. CWFs provide families with services across three areas: employment placement and career improvement; financial education and coaching; and public benefits access. These core services are integrated together and provided to clients in a bundled fashion in order to reinforce one another and to provide a multi-faceted approach to income and wealth building. The model for these centers was developed by the Annie E. Casey Foundation.
Currently LISC has centers in Chicago, Detroit, Indianapolis, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Milwaukee and Oakland.