One outcome of the Who Am I? Project was a web resource called Pathways. Pathways was revised and extended to become Find & Connect Victoria, and was also used as the model for building Find & Connect pages for each Australian State and Territory.
The Who Am I? project was conducted by researchers from the University of Melbourne (Cathy Humphreys, Gavan McCarthy, Cate O'Neill, Rachel Tropea, Margaret Kertesz and Andy May) and the Australian Catholic University (Shurlee Swain and Nell Musgrove), in partnership with 15 organisations, and in consultation with consumer support and advocacy groups.
The Partner Organisations were: The Salvation Army, Wesley Mission Victoria, Anglicare Victoria, Berry Street, Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare, Child and Family Services Ballarat, Department of Human Services Victoria, Glastonbury Child and Family Services, Good Shepherd Youth and Family Services, Kildonan UnitingCare, MacKillop Family Services, Orana Family Services, St Luke's Anglicare, Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency Co-operative Limited (VACCA), Victorian Adoption Network for Information and Self Help (VANISH).
The aims of the Who Am I? Project were inspired by the recommendations from the 'Forgotten Australians' report (2004), particularly those relating to records, recognition through memorials and exhibitions, and research. The interdisciplinary research team explored these issues using tools from the fields of social work, history and archival studies.
The Who Am I? Project adopted an action research methodology based on the Knowledge Diamond. The Knowledge Diamond, devised by Cathy Humphreys, emphasises the importance of the exchange of ideas between key stakeholder perspectives: Research Evidence, Service User/Consumer Experience, Policy Perspectives and Practitioner Wisdom.
Pathways, the web resource output of the project, used the
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The Find & Connect Support Service can help people who lived in orphanages and children's institutions look for their records.
Last updated:
11 January 2023
Cite this: http://www.findandconnect.gov.au/guide/vic/E000123
First published by the Find & Connect Web Resource Project for the Commonwealth of Australia, 2011
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