A Resource for Collective Healing for Members of the Stolen Generations: Planning, Implementing and Evaluating Effective Local Responses

This resource is the result of the combined efforts of many people and organisations. It was commissioned by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Healing Foundation in response to a need identified by the Foundation’s Stolen Generations Reference Committee. It was developed by Muru Marri, an academic unit at the School of Public Health and Medicine, UNSW Australia, with input from Healing Foundation staff and Reference Committee members and other key stakeholders around the country. The purpose of the resource is to: Strengthen and build upon the work already being done in the community by Stolen Generations members, organisations and groups to provide collective healing responses; Encourage the inclusion of collective healing responses in services provided to the Stolen Generations, including support groups, group therapy programs, day trips on country, healing circles, healing camps and reunions; Improve the range and quality of social and emotional wellbeing and healing programs available to the Stolen Generations, in particular first generation survivors. It is intended that the published resource will be made available to Stolen Generations members, organisations and groups; and to other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous organisations and practitioners involved in the delivery of services to Stolen Generations members. Its primary purpose is to support good practice. It may also be used to seek support from government for the inclusion of collective healing responses in their funded programs.