Tag: services
Celebrating the next generation of First Nations changemakers
ICAN Grow Graduates L-R: Sinead Singe, Elizabeth Carr, Fredrick Savage, Elise Deemal Tuesday, 29 April, marked a proud milestone for the Indigenous Consumer Assistance Network (ICAN) as its Grow Officers officially graduated in a… Read more »
ICAN Partnerships Committed to Workforce Development
Building a sustainable First Nations workforce in urban, regional, and remote communities is a key focus for ICAN over the next three years. In an exciting new project, ICAN will work with four community… Read more »
Meet Carmilla Dennis, one of ICAN’s new Grow Officers!
Carmilla Dennis is a proud Torres Strait Island woman born and raised in Cairns. Carmilla recently joined ICAN as a “Grow Officer” – a professional development position designed to develop and foster future First… Read more »
Mob Helping Mob, thanks to CommBank Scholarships
ICAN’s Elizabeth Carr is a passionate advocate for First Nations people. She yarned to us this month about how obtaining a CommBank Scholarship transformed her life. Now, she wants other First Nations people to… Read more »
‘Success our Way’
ASIC’s Indigenous Financial Services Framework outlines key learnings which ASIC has developed through extensive consultations with a range of stakeholders on First Nations peoples’ access to and engagement with the financial system[1]. Here, Danille… Read more »
Tackling Financial Hardship Together
The Ergon Energy Retail and Powerlink sponsored ‘Empowering Community Services’ webinar series couldn’t have come at a better time according to ICAN/ICAN Learn CEO, Aaron Davis. “Financial counsellors and the broader community services sector… 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 »