ICAN News

It takes a village

This month, we reflect on: the expression it takes a village to raise a financial counsellor and the road we travel together with our students and graduates, on their journey to become practicing financial counsellors. When… Read more »

Meet Jenny King

Congratulations on graduating from ICAN Learn’s Diploma of Financial Counselling course, Jenny! Can you tell us about your journey to becoming a Financial Counsellor? I completed the Diploma in Community and Human Services when… Read more »

Yarnin’ Money in Lotus Glen Correctional Centre

Lotus Glen Correctional Centre (LGCC) has partnered with the Indigenous Consumer Assistance Network (ICAN) to focus on delivering strong financial skills training for prisoners. The focus of the collaboration is to increase prisoners access… Read more »

Unaisi wins prestigious award

On May 19th, ICAN’s own Unaisi Buli was awarded the prestigious Jan Pentland Prize at the national Financial Counselling Australia Conference held in Darwin, in recognition of her outstanding work in financial counselling. For… Read more »

Energy Emergency

ICAN Connect partner, Weipa Community Care are tackling energy inequities in surrounding Indigenous Powercard communities through the establishment of a Powercard emergency relief program. The community driven program was made possible through ICAN Connect… Read more »

Overcoming the Tyranny of Distance

For many organisations, the COVID pandemic has forever changed how we think about service delivery over large geographic areas like Queensland. In the not-too-distant past, travel costs made remote service delivery inconsistent at best… Read more »

Stopping the Debt Disaster

ICAN is a proud member of a coalition of organisations opposing the Government plans to axe Australia’s safe lending laws through the Save Safe Lending campaign.  The National Consumer Credit Protection Amendment Bill will remove… Read more »

Introducing The Yarn

Welcome to our new E-News publication ‘The Yarn’. The Yarn is replacing our existing E-Newsletters and will provide you with a monthly summary of the best stories from our community. For our readers, you… Read more »