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 »
Tag: counselling
ICAN Connect kicks off in Weipa
A new partnership for Cape York communities ICAN is excited to announce our new partnership with Weipa Community Care thanks to the generous funding provided by the Ecstra Foundation. Our collaboration will give remote Indigenous communities across Cape… Read more »
Counting the Costs
Financial Counselling Victoria (FCVic) released a report earlier this month on financial counsellor stress and work overload. The report entitled, ‘Counting the Costs’, was created in response to consistent feedback from FCVic members experiencing high… Read more »
ICAN Atherton Opens in 2020!
ICAN hit the ground running in 2020, with the exciting news that we are preparing to open our first full-time office in Atherton in early 2020! Based on the Tablelands, Far North Qld, our new… Read more »
Major disasters require major responses
As of the 4th January, 2020, Australia’s bushfire crisis has caused 24 fatalities and the destruction of over 2500 buildings, including over 1300 houses. The estimated $350M+ insurance bill coupled with other associated financial impacts… Read more »
Watch our 2019 Annual Report video here!
2019 was another big year for ICAN and our subsidiary registered training organisation ICAN Learn, in moving towards achieving our vision of Empowering Indigenous Consumers and developing the financial counselling and capability sectors. The Annual Report… Read more »
Education shapes profession
A current review on the Diploma of Financial Counselling [code CHC51115] has posed a risk to the retention of core units that are part of the Financial Counselling profession. In this article, we provide… Read more »
Yarns’ from the north (Part-1)
In part-1 of ‘Yarns’ from the North’, ICAN E-News caught up with Toni Cork, General Manager and Financial Counsellor at HK Training & Consultancy (HKTC), a registered training organisation, based in Darwin, NT. The… Read more »