Post-Fraud & Scam Recovery Working Group – Volunteer Advisors: Collaborate on survivor-informed emergency financial stabilization, recovery, and systems solutions for fraud survivors.✅

About the Initiative

weAFAR is launching a Post-Fraud Financial Recovery (PFFR) Working Group to address a critical gap: traditional financial planning does not meet fraud survivors during crisis, early recovery, or system shock.

This working group focuses on emergency stabilization, ethical funding pathways, nonprofit partnerships, credit and debt challenges, coerced or predatory loan recovery, and survivor-informed financial recovery models. It is designed for collaborative problem-solving, systems mapping, and shaping practical pathways for post-fraud recovery, not for providing direct advice to individual survivors.

Who We’re Looking For

We are seeking professionals and advocates who bring real-world expertise and cross-disciplinary insight:

• Trauma-informed CFPs or financial counselors
• Nonprofit program managers (rent, utilities, food, transportation)
• Legal aid or consumer protection professionals
• Credit/debt specialists with experience supporting fraud survivors or addressing coerced, predatory, or fraud-related loans
• Banking or financial institution professionals with fraud, recovery, or account support experience
• Tax professionals or former IRS employees versed in theft losses, retirement account treatment after fraud, and survivor payment options
• Survivor-advocates (participation optional and protected)

Note: This is a collaborative, strategy-focused role, not direct service or casework. Professionals contribute system insights, process expertise, and recovery pathways, not individual case management.

What You’ll Do

During this 90-day pilot, participants will:

1. Listen & Map: Gather survivor feedback (anonymous if preferred) and identify common crisis points such as rent gaps, utility shutoffs, transportation loss, credit freezes, coerced loan burdens, and bank account issues.
2. Build Practical Pathways: Draft a Post-Fraud Financial Triage Framework identifying existing help, where survivors get stuck, and who can intervene safely.
3. Share & Pilot: Create survivor-facing guides and partner-facing referral maps; test them with a small survivor group.

Why Join

• Contribute to real systems change in post-fraud recovery
• Co-author frameworks and guides for national use
• Gain professional credibility in a new, emerging space
• Shape meaningful, survivor-informed solutions

Important Safeguards

• This role does not involve providing direct financial advice to individual survivors.
• Focus is on systems design, resource mapping, and collaborative frameworks.
• Survivor participation is optional, protected, and trauma-informed.

Next Steps

• Join a 60-minute virtual listening session to share insights and help shape the first phase upon the formation of the Working Group.
• Collaborate with a cross-disciplinary cohort of advocates, financial professionals, nonprofit partners, and survivors.

Volunteers participate 2–4 hours per month for a 90-day pilot. Flexible virtual meetings focused on shaping survivor-informed post-fraud financial recovery systems.