We’re proud to welcome David Cain, Managing Director of Outcare — to one of Australia’s most important conversations on care, support, and the future of the care sector.
Some of the people who need care and support the most are the ones the system finds it hardest to reach. And too often, it stops trying.
People leaving prison. People navigating the justice system. People carrying the weight of trauma, disadvantage, addiction, and social exclusion — often simultaneously — in circumstances that most support services were never designed to address and most funding models were never structured to sustain.
This is the population Outcare exists for.
And as Managing Director, David Cain leads an organisation whose work sits at one of the most challenging, most consequential, and most chronically underfunded intersections in Australia’s care and support landscape — where justice, rehabilitation, community reintegration, mental health, housing, and social inclusion converge around some of the most vulnerable people in the country.
Outcare has been doing this work in Western Australia for more than fifty years.
Fifty years of walking alongside people that other systems have walked away from. Fifty years of building the relationships, the programs, and the community connections that give people leaving the justice system a genuine pathway back — not just out of custody, but into a life with stability, purpose, and the support needed to sustain it.
That is not charity. That is justice. That is care. And it is exactly the kind of leadership this conference needs in the room.
David brings to this conversation a perspective that is as practically grounded as it is morally urgent — one shaped not by policy abstraction but by decades of frontline experience with the people and communities that Australia’s care system must do better by:
✅ Justice-involved populations — care, support, and reintegration pathways
✅ Trauma-informed practice across complex and intersecting disadvantage
✅ Community reintegration — what genuine supported transition looks like
✅ Mental health, housing, and social inclusion at the care and justice interface
✅ Sustained community-based support beyond crisis and immediate intervention
✅ Advocacy for the populations most marginalised within the care system
A care and support sector that does not reach the people hardest to reach is not a complete system. It is a system with edges — and the people living at those edges deserve better. David Cain has spent his career at Outcare proving that better is possible — and at this conference, he brings that proof to the national conversation.
National Care & Support Sector Conference 2026
Friday, 28th August, 2026
8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Join In-Person or ONLINE, Pullman, Albert Park Melbourne,VIC
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