NWC Learning Hub
The NWC Learning Hub is a landmark initiative designed to further strengthen the skills, capacity, and connection of the NSW wildlife sector. The vision of the NWC Learning Hub is to provide a central, accessible, and easy-to-use online platform where anyone in the rescue and rehabilitation community—from new volunteers to seasoned species specialists—can access the latest knowledge, skills, and resources they need to care for wildlife safely and effectively.
Built on the Thinkific platform, the Learning Hub offers on-demand courses, webinars, resource libraries, and an event calendar of training opportunities that make training accessible to volunteers in even the most remote regions of the state. This is critical for a sector where many volunteers juggle rescue work alongside jobs, families, and other responsibilities. By enabling them to learn at their own pace and remotely, the Hub reduces barriers to training and ensures that best-practice standards can be adopted widely and consistently. This also helps in a sector where many rescuers of smaller local groups must wait for enough interested colleagues to enrol in a desired course.
The Learning Hub isn’t just about courses. It’s also a gateway to an exciting collaborative community. Through interactive advanced training roundtables, rescuers and rehabilitators can connect with peers, learn from species-specific experts. The resource and link library amplifies access to resources on topics ranging from wildlife first response, species-specific handling, sector-specific mental health support/self-care, and navigating emergency response during bushfires and floods. In these efforts, the platform not only strengthens the access, but the sense of belonging and shared purpose among carers who often work in isolated conditions.
The NWC Learning Hub demonstrates what’s possible when we combine the passion and experience of grassroots volunteers with modern technology and coordinated state-level leadership. It embodies our commitment to “serving those who serve wildlife”—ensuring that every rescuer, no matter skill level or where they are in NSW, has access to the knowledge, tools, and community they need to rescue and rehabilitate.