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Improving Records Access for Stolen Generations

  • June 4, 2021
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The Healing Foundation has developed training that will improve records access for Stolen Generations in collaboration with experts, including Find & Connect

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Westbrook Boys Breakout

  • May 21, 2021
  • in Features
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A mass breakout at Westbrook Farm Home brought attention to the brutal conditions endured by the boys 60 years ago this May.

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Real Care the Second Time Around

  • May 7, 2021
  • in Features
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The Real Care the Second Time Around Project is addressing the needs of people who were in care as children as they enter aged care

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CEHM, what’s been and what’s to come.

  • April 19, 2021
  • in Events, Features
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Here’s the place to catch up with what’s been happening at CEHM, and get involved in what’s to come.

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Care Experienced History Month

  • March 31, 2021
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“It’s not always about the worst, sometimes we really need to keep that balance with good stuff”

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Victorian Stolen Generations Reparations Design Consultation

  • March 26, 2021
  • in Features, News
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The Stolen Generations Steering Committee are inviting Stolen Generations and family to yarn about a Reparations package

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Spanish flu

  • March 12, 2021
  • in Features
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Before COVID-19, Spanish flu tore through the world’s population, threatening children in institutional care in Australia.

Lost Innocents

  • February 26, 2021
  • in Features
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For child migrants, records can be kept across Homes, organisations, and continents, all with their own rules.

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Life Stories Project

  • February 12, 2021
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Putting people in control of the narrative around their time in care with their own stories & in their own words.

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Own Your Story, Own Your Mob, Mob Owns You – Re-authoring the colonial archive

  • January 29, 2021
  • in Features
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Guest Post: “The colonial archive continues to have a disempowering impact on our people whose lives have been extensively documented and controlled for the purposes of surveillance and dispossession.”

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