Begin a new future thats all about you. 

Your Caring Way provides free support and training options to unpaid carers wishing to pursue their own goals. Whether you want to re-enter the workforce, pursue a new career, study, or get volunteer experience, we are here to help. 

Carers change lives in so many ways as they support a loved one with a disability or chronic health condition. We understand that carers need to realise their own dreams too.  

Our friendly and experienced team are here to support you every step towards achieving your goals.  


How We Support You 

You are at the heart of what we do, and we are committed to being there for you from start to finish.

Once you join our program, you will be assigned your own Vocational Support Planner who will provide you with ongoing and individualised support to ensure you are connected, empowered and on your way to success.

We will create a personalised support plan tailored to your needs to help you achieve your goals sooner.

Our team will support you with: 

  • Building confidence and motivation to pursue your goals.

  • Individualised career planning with one-on-one mentoring and support.

  • Providing practical support with resume writing and building confidence with successful interviewing skills.

  • Connecting you with job opportunities, whether it’s paid, self-employed or volunteer.

  • Identifying transferrable skills you have gained as a carer and how this can be job and training opportunities.

  • Creating a safe space to talk about your hopes and dreams and develop a realistic plan to achieve this.

  • Supporting you with training, including free or subsidised training options.

  • Helping you access additional supports depending on your needs, for instance financial, mental health, wellbeing, and practical supports.

Discover your new future—read our testimonials below.

I was very overwhelmed with life having just spent four years caring for my wife who lost her battle with cancer. My wife was my son’s carer and I became his new carer while trying to reconnect back into the workforce. I was absolutely lost feeling it was an impossible task. Since connecting with Your Caring Way, my overwhelmed feelings eased, and my confidence is building.

Alan

Everything is going great, the work itself has been great, and I'm enjoying every minute. They cater to my needs when it comes to appointments for my children and also my university and that is what I've been looking for. Again I can't thank you guys enough for the support and staring me in the right direction.

Jane

I owe so much to the Your Caring Way program, they helped give me independence from my caring role, helped my sense of identity and being, they helped give me my confidence back after being out of the workforce for several years due to my caring role. The support of this program to find stable, suitable employment, and now I’m stable doing what I love in disability support.

Kaitlyn

The help with the resume and the listening when I break down in tears crying on the phone, because I was just so frustrated and didn’t know what to do. It was overwhelming and Shauna is there saying calm down, let’s see what we can do. And if she couldn’t find the answer, she would find someone to help. Those were the biggest things.

Sandy, Support Worker

My Support Planner is compassionate and understanding about my ongoing caring responsibilities, offering great suggestions and meeting my vocational needs. I did the courses through Your Caring Way which will help me enormously in my business. By understanding carers’ needs, and being flexible in how they deliver support, the Your Caring Way program is a much needed service to carers.

Briget

I have been a carer for my wife with severe a mental health condition for 18 years. I felt very alone and isolated! This program is that buddy, that friend, that ally, who can and does sustain us while we dedicate our all to help the people who need so much empathy and support themselves.

Gary

The first thing we spoke about was my strengths and I didn’t think I knew how to do anything. I now work in a day options program, I run a music and karaoke group and cooking classes. I plan to keep working part-time. I also have plans to travel overseas every year. I can actually see that now, I can actually do that.

Rosa, Day Options Program Coordinator

Finding Your Caring Way program was a game changer for me because the program's purpose is to support people in the same situation as me. I received not only valuable information on various pathways but also individual assistance to complete it, such as improving my resume and finding suitable positions and training possibilities.

Libby

My first meeting with Your Caring Way was a powerful turning point in my journey from full-time caring to achieving paid work. Now I am the Co-Director of Branch Out Support. For the first time ever, I have business goals AND the capacity to achieve them. Your Caring Way has changed not just my life, but the lives of my children, my partner, and the people I now have capacity to support.

Ali

Like most carers, sometimes I just sit and think “is this all my life will ever be?” I’m a carer for my daughter who has Cerebral Palsy, asthma, and other things. I was 60 and had been out of the workforce for a few years, getting older made it harder. Your Caring Way helped me get two jobs. If it wasn’t for them, I’d still be looking for work.

Lyn

I’ve been out of the workforce for eight years, caring for our son with neurodevelopmental disability. Your Caring Way came into my life at my lowest point. It is an invaluable service transforming who I thought was “unemployable” given my carer demands and circumstances into someone who can identify my strengths and potential and connect me to training and employment opportunities.

Wendy

I don’t think I had a resume since I was at school, 30 odd years ago. Seeing it all on paper it sort of whacked me in the face to go, wow, I have done so much and have done nothing with it. Then I got an interview with Home Instead and I have been working there for more than 2 years. Now I’m the one ringing Shauna going “Have you got someone?”

Kylie, Recruiter

I have been the main carer for my parents over the last 4 years. I was out of work for a while and finding the stress of financial caring responsibilities a battle of the mind, pocket, and ability. My Vocational Support Planner always encouraged, supported, and shared all his knowledge and experience with me. He points out my valuable qualities and shares in my excitement and my lows.

Josephine

Your Journey

Get back to work with our FREE employment services for unpaid carers. Your new future begins today. Register now!

Ongoing Support – We understand it takes time to adjust to a new job or study. We will continue to check in with you regularly to see how you are going and provide ongoing support as needed.

Job or Study Placement – Once you’re ready, we will help match you with a job or study opportunity that aligns with your vocational goals.

Mentoring & Upskilling – To keep you on track and support your growth, we will meet with you regularly to keep you motivated and connect you with a range of training options to ensure you are ready for success!

First Session – A dedicated Vocational Support Planner will work with you to create a personalised goals plan based on your aspirations and caring responsibilities.

Explore – Our team will connect with you to explain how the program works and the ways we can support you.

To register for our program, you need to meet the following: 

  • current unpaid carer or past carer (within the last two years)
  • reside in either Queensland, Tasmania or South Australia
  • ready to get back into the workforce, looking for a career change or wanting to re-skill and seeking an outcome of either employment (including self-employment), education, training, or volunteering
  • of legal working age, no longer at high school, and looking to study or work.

Your Caring Way is FREE for those who meet the program's eligibility requirements. 

We offer free employment services and subsidised training options for unpaid carers. 

Your Journey

Get back to work with our FREE employment services for unpaid carers. Your new future begins today. Register now!

Ongoing Support – We understand it takes time to adjust to a new job or study. We will continue to check in with you regularly to see how you are going and provide ongoing support as needed.

Job or Study Placement – Once you’re ready, we will help match you with a job or study opportunity that aligns with your vocational goals.

Mentoring & Upskilling – To keep you on track and support your growth, we will meet with you regularly to keep you motivated and connect you with a range of training options to ensure you are ready for success!

First Session – A dedicated Vocational Support Planner will work with you to create a personalised goals plan based on your aspirations and caring responsibilities.

Explore – Our team will connect with you to explain how the program works and the ways we can support you.

To register for our program, you need to meet the following: 

  • current unpaid carer or past carer (within the last two years)
  • reside in either Queensland, Tasmania or South Australia
  • ready to get back into the workforce, looking for a career change or wanting to re-skill and seeking an outcome of either employment (including self-employment), education, training, or volunteering
  • of legal working age, no longer at high school, and looking to study or work.

Your Caring Way is FREE for those who meet the program's eligibility requirements. 

We offer free employment services and subsidised training options for unpaid carers. 

Are you a carer?

If you provide unpaid care and support to family members or friends who have a disability, mental illness, chronic condition, terminal illness or who are frail aged, you are a carer. 

Across Australia, 2.7 million people provide unpaid care for a family member or friend. However, it’s estimated that up to 79 percent don’t identify as a carer. 

Click below to learn more, or you can download the “Are You a Carer” flyer (PDF). 

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