Your Caring Way

Your Caring Way is an end to end vocational coaching program, designed to support carers by providing coaching, mentoring, accredited and non-accredited training and preparing them for vocation opportunities ( including paid employment, work experience or volunteering ) with suitable “carer friendly” employers to enable social, vocational and economic outcomes that benefit carers, employers, industry, community and government.

YCW is a pilot program to be run over two and half years across three states (QLD, SA & TAS). It targets people who provide care and support to a friend or family member and is interested in making changes in the lives that involve learning and/or social and /or economic participation in community and/or employment. If you are a carer or know someone who is get in contact with us today.

It is clear that increased employment opportunities are not only beneficial to the carer, the person they care for, and their families, but also provide significant benefits to government and wider community.  Education and flexible, supported employment options are critical to a carer’s success in sustaining employment, and Your Caring Way seeks to address these needs.

More broadly, improved employment outcomes for carers will contribute to long-term economic benefits for Australia through increased labour force participation and reduced costs of carer income supports. Creating a “carer-friendly” workplace is good employment practice and makes excellent business sense. Enhance the quality of your brand and culture by working with us to help create a new future for your organisation.

At Your Caring Way we are looking for value-driven organisations that realise the benefit of providing employment or volunteering opportunities for our highly skilled, qualified, and committed carers.

Quick facts:

• ·         Australia has over 2.7 million carers – this equates to approximately 1 in 8 people
• ·         Approximately 2/3 of carers take more than a year to identify as having caring responsibilities.
• ·         In QLD there are 474,300 carers including 54,100 young carers.
• ·         Cares provide 1.9 billion hours of unpaid care per year in Australia.
• ·         The replacement value of the unpaid care provided in 2015 was $60.3 billion – over $1 billion per week.