Decent housing represents a pillar for economic security. Studies are now being released that show women have been disproportionately affected by the fallout from the recent housing crisis. Statistics don’t readily show us the fact that women represent the strongest asset to pull themselves and their families out of poverty. Tri-Coastal has partnered with Regions Bank to teach Financial Fitness Workshops using FDIC’s Money Smart Training. These workshops focus on showing everyday individuals how to reshape and plan strategies to change their own personal paths to financial fitness and liberty.

Tri-Coastal believes that when women start businesses, they not only create jobs, but they create a cycle of economic stability and tangible ways to address the wealth gap, providing themselves with the basic resources to lift themselves and their families out of poverty.

Al Hopkins, Vice President of Regions Bank, gives a class on IAAY Financial Fitness