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.… Read more »
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Success in Victoria
Congratulations to recent graduates of ICAN Learn’s Victorian programs. ICAN learn celebrated the success of students in our Victorian programs with a wonderful lunch on the banks of… 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… Read more »
Australian Poverty Report Released
The 2020 Poverty in Australia Overview, released today by the Australian Council of Social Service and UNSW Sydney, shows more than one in eight adults and one in… 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… Read more »
Remote Financial Counsellor (Part 2)
In part-2 of Remote Financial Counsellor, ICAN Learn E-News caught up with Toni Cork, General Manager and Financial Counsellor at HK Training & Consultancy (HKTC), a registered training… Read more »
Bushfire Resource Links
A Resource List of emergency financial support, financial counselling assistance, and disaster relief packages available for individuals and families affected by the bushfires: Department of Human Services Support… 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… Read more »
Watch our 2019 Annual Report Video!
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… Read more »
Remote Financial Counsellor
In Part 1 of our ‘Remote Financial Counsellor’ series, we catch up with Alan Gray, Outreach Financial Counsellor for Broome Circle, located in the Kimberley, Western Australia. Welcome… Read more »
New blood to build Australia’s financial counselling sector
The 21st of October 2019 was a momentous date in four of Australia’s eastern states; with the commencement of the long awaited EnergyAustralia/ICAN Learn Diploma of Financial Counselling scholarship… Read more »
Becoming a financial counsellor in the red centre
Karan Kumar is from Punjab in the northwest of India. He arrived in Australia in 2008 and lived in Melbourne for six years before moving to Alice Springs to… Read more »
