Camp offers learning and fun
Echo Creek Adventure Centre was the perfect location for eight young carers to have fun, enjoy and appreciate nature. The centre, an established adventure based learning facility approximately 2.5 hou ...
Retreats and the importance of self-care
Self-care and finding a real break is often difficult for carers to achieve for a number of reasons, but they are vital to maintaining a healthy balance and recharging. Carer retreats often have a sim ...
Counsellor’s Corner
Do you procrastinate? Do you put off important jobs because you are too busy? Procrastination is not laziness; it is an avoidance behaviour. We are putting off a task because there is something unplea ...
Support for carers from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse backgrounds
Carers Queensland is committed to supporting all carers. We recognise that some carers face additional barriers in accessing supports that can assist them and the people that they care for. Challenges ...
My Health Record
Who can access your ‘My Health Record”? Apart from you, the only people who can view or access your My Health Record are your healthcare providers (e.g. GPs, specialists or hospital staff); people you ...
My Health Record
Who can access your ‘My Health Record”? Apart from you, the only people who can view or access your My Health Record are your healthcare providers (e.g. GPs, specialists or hospital staff); people you ...
Guilt, compassion fatigue and self-care
Carers Queensland’s Counselling program offers brief intervention and emotional support in the Darling Downs region to unpaid carers. My name is Megan Edwards and I am the new carers’ Counsellor with ...
Talking about money
"A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart” – Jonathan Swift Making the most of the money we have available to us can require knowledge and skills. To assist you in keeping ...
Mt Isa Carer Support Group
Do you live in the Mount Isa Region? Are you providing care and support to a family member or friend with a disability, mental illness, chronic condition, terminal illness or who are frail aged? For m ...
Human beings are inherently social creatures
History, as far back as we can go, shows we as species, have travelled, hunted and thrived in social groups. This has been a vital part of our survival. The prominent humanistic theorist, Abraham Masl ...
