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The Gallery Cafe Bendio

Date: Tuesday, 22nd February 2022 
Time: 11:00am-1:00pm 
Location: The Gallery Café &#8211; Bendigo Art Gallery, 42 View St, Bendigo VIC 3550 <a title="Link to directions on Google Maps" href="https://g.page/BendigoArtGallery?share">Google Map Link</a>
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<h3>Join us for our new Carer Solutions Morning Tea series in Bendigo on Tuesday 22nd of February.</h3>
We’re a personal bunch and we love to meet up, especially in person. And what better way is there to do this than over a cuppa.
Our Carer Solutions Morning Teas are all about meeting up with our Partners in person to learn more about you, and how we can best support you. All over a cup of tea and a cheeky cake or two.
We’ll keep it informal, like a campfire conversation between the group, but we can also meet up with you one-to-one if there’s anything you’d like to discuss personally.
Bring along whoever you’d like; your family, friends, Support Workers or even someone you think might like to learn more about our services.
The event location is accessible with adequate parking and access.
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To RSVP for the event simply click on the link below and share a few details.
<a title="Link to register for the CS Morning Tea - Bendigo" href="https://carersolutions.typeform.com/to/K7Jf7OG7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Register for the Carer Solutions Morning Tea &#8211; Bendigo</a>

Jane Morrell, founder & CEO of Carer Solutions smiling, sitting at a desk speaking with a person sitting in the foreground

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Jane Morrell, founder & CEO of Carer Solutions

<h4>When asked to write something about starting Carer Solutions ten years ago so many thoughts run through my mind….</h4>
Firstly, ten years. Wow. A decade crazy right?!
I started this journey as a 31-year-old who had absolutely no idea what lay ahead of me, truly. To use that wonderful term, we call hindsight I describe it as a complete surrender to an incredible opportunity and simply letting it take me away….
Take me away like a raft down a river sometimes &#8211; calm, serene and beautiful, picturesque and at other times manic and scary, wading my way through storm after storm through the roughest of waters. All the while never, ever giving up keeping my head above the water sometimes just! with the passion for what my organisation represents and seeing the impact I was making in the lives of people living with disability my only constant and driving force.
People pull out all the clichés when it comes to starting a business and as a business owner &#8211; budding or seasoned you’ve heard them all. And it takes a lot more than most will ever know or come close to understanding to operate a business, let alone a successful one.
I have always viewed it as my complete honour and privilege to be able to design, own and operate something that exists to improve the quality of one’s life. How much more fulfilled could a 9 to 5 get right? Not much more, let me tell you.
Nothing brings me more joy then sitting down with someone, speaking about how hard they are finding things and working with them toward a solution. It was in doing just this, which is what brought about my vision for Carer Solutions.
Understanding that people were completely over not having the ability to control their own lives in the disability sector &#8211; they had thoughts and distinct ideas on how they could live their best lives and were frustrated that no one (government or organisations!) were listening, actioning, or providing them with solutions that REALLY worked for them.
They wanted and deserved better. Better designed services that put them FIRST. I mean truly, put them first. Services designed around the individual, their individual needs and the INDIVIDUAL making their OWN choices.
Sounds ludicrous to say that a decade ago this level of choice and control didn’t exist.
But it didn’t and it made me mad. Mad and bewildered?!
Mad, bewildered, disappointed, and downright horrified &#8211; how could we live in country like Australia and not be treating and providing citizens of our society with different needs the services and supports they deserve? And access to things that “normal people” can access.
It made no sense.
It still doesn’t.
I had to do something and a decade ago I did, and my own life and the lives of the thousands of Australians that Carer Solutions services have impacted have never been the same since.
As I have said this decade, and most certainly the last couple of years haven’t been without its challenges.
During this global pandemic we had to pivot literally overnight to running our entire operation from each of our team members’ lounge rooms! a task that was initially quite daunting and difficult given we pride ourselves on face-to-face and being so accessible to our Partners. Thankfully, we have managed this successfully and it meant fundamental changes to our business model which in effect in means we are now more accessible to our community due to the pandemic, which is a definite positive.
Also, managing our growth as Covid-19 was unfolding and ensuring that whilst we had a new set of challenges to navigate that we remained steadfast in my commitment to ensure that the brand was the best possible representation of who we truly are.
This means from how we look and feel right through to the culture of the organisation ensuring we had not only the right roles in the business to manage our growth but that we are employing the right type of humans to represent Carer Solutions that is – high-performers that are innately connected to our unique approach and purpose.
This commitment to growth and ensuring we can scale our services and increase our impact translated into over 17 new roles being created and recruited for in the last twelve months and 6 new roles currently being recruited for. And, to top this off we are undergoing a beautiful rebrand and are just about to introduce the exciting, fresh new look to our community.
I consider myself one of the extremely lucky ones to have found my calling in life and it is with privilege and a grateful heart that I move forward.
And for this reason, I get out of bed every single day.
<h5>Around 4.4 million Australians are living with disability &#8211; thousands is not enough, I have a long way to go.</h5>
Jane Morrell
Founder &amp; CEO, Carer Solutions

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Melbourne Disability Expo 2020

Date: Friday, 1st &amp; Saturday, 2nd April 2022 
Time: 9:00am &#8211; 3:00pm 
Location: Melbourne Convention &amp; Exhibition Centre Door 9 <a title="Link to the Melbourne Convention &amp; Exhibition Centre on Google Maps" href="https://goo.gl/maps/Zc3BLi1TMZ2H2ypb8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Google Map Link</a>
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<h3>The Melbourne Disability Expo is back and promises to be even better.</h3>
After the COVID challenges of last year the Melbourne Disability Expo is returning in April and we couldn&#8217;t be happier. The first major event in Melbourne for 2022, the expo promises to be bigger and better than the years past.
Like the past years, the expo will include hundreds of exhibitors from Government and advocacy organisations, aids and equipment suppliers through to social and leisure providers. Along with all of the great exhibitors there will be presentations great kids entertainment and all-ability performances.
We&#8217;re really looking forward to the first big Melbourne event of the year and hope to see you there.
<h4>Event Website &amp; Tickets:</h4>
For more information about this amazing events and to book tickets, visit the <a title="Link to the Melbourne Disability Expo website" href="https://www.melbournedisabilityexpo.com.au/attend-expo/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Melbourne Disability Expo website here</a>.

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Source Kids Melbourne Expo 2022

Date: Saturday, 1st &amp; Sunday 2nd May 2022 
Time: Saturday 10:00 &#8211; 5:00am, Sunday 10:00am &#8211; 4:00pm 
Location: Melbourne Convention &amp; Exhibition Centre <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/o1eDWNcveSCUCZkt7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Google Map Link</a>
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<h3>The premier kids disability expo returns to Melbourne</h3>
Source Kids is one of our favourite expos and it just seems to get better every year.
The Melbourne expo is the first of a series for the year and we will be there with a new, bigger space.
The two day event will have hundreds of providers to meet, a performance zone for all ages, a sensory zone and two game zones.
There will also be a bunch of great speakers and the great energy that comes with any Source Kids event.
We&#8217;re really looking forward to this one and hope to see you there.
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<h4>Event Website &amp; Tickets:</h4>
For more information about this amazing events and to book FREE tickets, visit the <a title="Link to the Source Kids website where you can book free tickets to the Expo" href="https://sourcekids.com.au/expo/expo-melbourne-2020/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Source Kids Disability Expo Melbourne website here</a>.

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Source Kids Melbourne Expo

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Carer Solutions Morning Tea Event

Date: Thursday, 10th February 2022 
Time: 11:00am-1:00pm 
Location: Ballarat Yacht Club, 18 Lake Wendouree Foreshore, Wendouree Parade, Ballarat 3350 <a title="Link to the Ballarat Yacht Club on Google Maps" href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/Ballarat+Yacht+Club/@-37.5554275,143.8378328,18.75z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x6ad14485d2922acf:0x561791809035d3b4!8m2!3d-37.5554634!4d143.8385159" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Google Map Link</a>
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<h3>Join us for our new Carer Solutions Morning Tea series in Ballarat on Thursday 10th of February.</h3>
We’re a personal bunch and we love to meet up, especially in person. And what better way is there to do this than over a cuppa.
Our Carer Solutions Morning Teas are all about meeting up with our Partners in person to learn more about you, and how we can best support you. All over a cup of tea and a cheeky cake or two.
We’ll keep it informal, like a campfire conversation between the group, but we can also meet up with you one-to-one if there’s anything you’d like to discuss personally.
Bring along whoever you’d like; your family, friends, Support Workers or even someone you think might like to learn more about our services.
The event location is accessible with adequate parking and access.
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To RSVP for the event simply click on the link below and share a few details.
<a title="Link to register for the CS Morning Tea - Ballarat" href="https://carersolutions.typeform.com/to/SwprN5qX" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Register for the Carer Solutions Morning Tea &#8211; Ballarat</a>

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The Basin Cafe Launceston

Date: Thursday, 27th and Friday, 28th January 2022 
Time: 11:00am-1:00pm 
Location: <a title="Link to the location and direction to The Basin Cafe on Google Maps" href="https://goo.gl/maps/jKqY7PKbx1mFn22KA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Google Map Link</a>
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<h3>Join us for the first of our new Morning Tea series at The Basin Cafe, Cataract Gorge, Launceston, 27th &amp; 28th of January.</h3>
We’re a personal bunch and we love to meet up, especially in person. And what better way is there to do this than over a cuppa.
Our Carer Solutions Morning Teas are all about meeting up with our Partners in person to learn more about you, and how we can best support you. All over a cup of tea and a cheeky cake or two.
We&#8217;ll keep it informal, like a campfire conversation between the group, but we can also meet up with you one-to-one if there&#8217;s anything you&#8217;d like to discuss personally.
Bring along whoever you&#8217;d like; your family, friends, Support Workers or even someone you think might like to learn more about our services.
The event location is accessible with adequate parking and access.
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To RSVP for the event simply click on the link below and share a few details.
<a title="Register for the CS Morning Tea - Launceston" href="https://carersolutions.typeform.com/to/ELmVJKRT" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Register for the CS Morning Tea &#8211; Launceston</a>

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