New Bus Timetable for the ACT image

New Bus Timetable for the ACT

A new bus timetable in the ACT will begin on Monday 9 October 2023 to…

R U OK? Day 2023 image

R U OK? Day 2023

Today is R U OK? Day. Too often, our caring community across the ACT, including…

Do you want to help with developing the National Autism Strategy? image

Do you want to help with developing the National Autism Strategy?

The Department of Social Services is inviting people with autism, and their carers, to help…

Carers ACT part of new Community Assistance Temporary Supports program image

Carers ACT part of new Community Assistance Temporary Supports program

Carers ACT is proud to be part of a new Community Assistance Temporary Supports program…

Calling carers – be part of the ACT Health Infrastructure Consumer Reference Group image

Calling carers – be part of the ACT Health Infrastructure Consumer Reference Group

Carers ACT is calling on local carers, or those they care for, to consider applying…

Your voice matters! September Carers Collective image

Your voice matters! September Carers Collective

Get ready to have your voice heard and be a part of something exciting. Join…

LIFELONG CARERS: The Lived Experience Witnessed Through a Documentary image

LIFELONG CARERS: The Lived Experience Witnessed Through a Documentary

Dalanglin (Dalang) Dkhar, a PhD candidate from Charles Sturt University, is on a mission to…

Inquiry into the recognition of unpaid carers image

Inquiry into the recognition of unpaid carers

Carers ACT provided a submission to the recent Federal Inquiry into the Recognition of Unpaid Carers. We noted the…

Canberra Carers’ Struggles Brought to Light: the Impact of School Refusal image

Canberra Carers’ Struggles Brought to Light: the Impact of School Refusal

Carers ACT has long witnessed the distress experienced by carers when the children they care…

Are you supported by an NDIS package? Survey image

Are you supported by an NDIS package? Survey

The NDIS Commission is interested in hearing from Canberra Carers about how useful the information…

Parent Views on School Attendance – Research image

Parent Views on School Attendance – Research

In December 2022, Carers ACT submitted a response to the Senate Inquiry into The National…

Report on major survey of women’s health and wellbeing in the ACT image

Report on major survey of women’s health and wellbeing in the ACT

Between November 2022 and February 2023, Women’s Health Matters (with the assistance of Carers ACT,…