Our Story

CareNow was created in order to give attention to certain areas of support work that were being undervalued. Below is the story of CareNow’s founder, Jordan Sandler, detailing his personal experiences which inspired the creation of the organisation.

From the day I was first introduced to the neuro/physically diverse community, my passion and my heart has grown every day. The love, warmth, resilience, strength and passion found within the disability community is like nothing I had felt or seen before, and the relationships I have been able to make with some incredibly inspiring individuals have changed my life forever. I am committed to doing what I can to help assist and support this awesome community because my life would be half as warm and half as purposeful without it.

My engagement with the neuro/physically diverse community began when I completed high school. Upon finishing I decided to look for something that could add more meaning to my life, hoping to find something that I could put my energy and enthusiasm into. I volunteered at two different organisations, which provided me with training and introduced me to working with children living with a disability. My continued involvement helped me begin to understand just how complex and amazing this community was.

During this period, I was also engaging in informal education, particularly with children. All at once, I happened to be creating and facilitating informal education programs, running workshops on personal development at schools, and working as a carer for multiple families in Melbourne. Here, CareNow formed as a concept by merging the two biggest passions in my life, developmental education and engagement with the special needs community.

My experiences within the sector introduced me to pockets of people, passionate and enthusiastic about the advancement of the community. My aim is to centralise and foster these attitudes, creating a team committed to being active participants in the growth and development of this amazing community.

I believe the key is education and attitude. Our aim is to form a team consisting of the right people with the right attitudes, and combining that with dynamic, innovative and collaborative trainings and workshops. Through extensive training programs put together in collaboration with the very best special needs educators in Victoria, my vision is to create an environment that fosters the very best care.

Being a quality carer means viewing your role as not just a day-to-day job, but understanding the responsibility extends far beyond. It involves taking responsibility for the people you care for, and the community they are a part of. A quality carer views their role not only as a requirement for support, but as an opportunity to learn from and engage intimately with those you care for.