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 »
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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 »
‘The debt trap: How payday lending is costing Australians’ data released
This week the Stop the Debt Trap Alliance released new data showing the scale of Australia’s payday lending crisis. The Debt Trap: How payday lending is costing Australians… Read more »
Training needs and innovation highlighted in financial counselling review
The Indigenous Consumer Assistance Network (ICAN) and training subsidiary ICAN Learn were pleased to learn of the Morrison Government’s announcement earlier this month, to consider strengthening support to… Read more »
Debt, the final straw
Financial Counsellors across Australia witness daily the mental health impacts that unmanageable debt can have on their clients. What happens when your client has already suffered a traumatic… Read more »
Game Changer for NSW
ICAN Learn training team met with a group of motivated financial counsellors in Sydney earlier this year to facilitate the next step of designing, developing and delivering the… Read more »
Embracing Diversity
ICAN Learn E-News caught up with Natalie Chong, a vibrant participant in the Commonwealth Bank’s Multi-Cultural, Diploma of Financial Counselling Scholarship program. Natalie initially came to Australia from… Read more »
