Personal stories of people who spent time in care are incredibly powerful. Here’s one about the impact of telling your story, and being believed.
Personal stories of people who spent time in care are incredibly powerful. Here’s one about the impact of telling your story, and being believed.
A project that documents the stories of people who spent time in care, in their own words & on their own terms, is coming to a close.
Stories from and about people who spent time in care for you to read and watch.
Bob was abused in Homes in Qld from 1959 to 1964. He died waiting for redress.
“My voice was snuffed out, the adults employed by the state to ensure my safety and wellbeing expressed their assumptions.” This is Sarah M.’s experience of accessing her records.
LONG READ: Our submission to the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety
Research by the Find & Connect web resource has identified a cross over between historical children’s homes and new & existing aged care facilities
Archivists and radical empathy. What happens when the Care Leaver is at the centre of records access.
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By the 1960s, the Queensland Government was using Wolston Park adult mental health facility to house children who were wards of the state.
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The aim of this is not to censor, or to sugar-coat the history of ‘care’ – it is instead about us making more conscious choices about the language we use when we publish content. We acknowledge that language is not neutral or ‘historical’, and in reproducing offensive language we are endorsing or perpetuating systems that have caused great injustice and harm. It is also about acknowledging more fully the reality of those actions in the past, and the impacts of those that are ongoing.
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