Flooded with Debt: A Case Study
Life was good for Jacob and Ivy*. Like most young couples starting out, they moved into a rental property in Townsville which they proudly called home, and were excited to be living independently from… Read more »
Tag: Financial Counselling
Generosity reigns during COVID-19
For over ten years, ICAN’s website PayPal donation button sat alone in cyberspace waiting for a donor’s generosity. Competing with so many worthy charities, and sitting within an organisation that never invested the time… Read more »
Empowering Community Services
Ergon, Powerlink and ICAN Learn announce a new Diploma of Financial Counselling Scholarship Program, to support the development of new financial counsellors in regional Queensland. Financial counselling and community support services are expecting increased… Read more »
CBA Indigenous and Multicultural Scholarship Applications are now open!
ICAN and our social enterprise, ICAN Learn, would like to thank the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) for their ongoing commitment and continued partnership to support diversity, by building the representation of Indigenous and… Read more »
It’s Time to Reconnect
The current COVID-19 landscape has posed extreme new health threats to vulnerable Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities throughout Australia. Communities already struggling with limited access to services are now physically isolated, more than… Read more »
Corona Preppers
The ICAN team have systematically gone into Coronavirus COVID-19 prepper mode. At the time of writing this article, North Queensland has been minimally impacted; that is with the exception of the crazy doomsday shoppers.… Read more »
Northern Star
Welcome home Jillian! How does it feel to be back in Cairns? It feels exactly like coming home! Growing up here, I never appreciated how beautiful it is. Now, everywhere I go I am… Read more »
More Than Money
ICAN and the Financial Counselling Association of Queensland (FCAQ) hosted Janet Murray, the head of a new Canadian not-for-profit social enterprise, Sustainable Livelihoods Canada (SLC), earlier this month. During her stay, Janet conducted two… Read more »