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Bringing Them Home

Tharawal’s Bringing Them Home Program offers:

Personal case management service to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and descendants who are survivors of the Stolen Generation.

The Stolen Generation is the name given to Aboriginal People:

Who were removed from their families as children or were decendants sent to institutions.
Some children were removed, sent to institutions, adopted or fostered by non Aboriginal families between 1910 to 1970.

Children’s experiences were varied depending on the situation to which they were in and the amount of attention they received;

Some children appeared to cope with trauma of losing their families but as adults have had to cope with the emptiness resulting from the silence about their birth families and the denial of their indigenous heritage. Many other children never overcame their traumatic loss and their lives become an anguished story or a social and emotional turmoil.
Children placed with unsatisfactory foster parents or an Institutions fared the worst.

PROGRAMS OBJECTIVE:

The BTH Program at Tharawal will provide a brokerage service for clients, ensuring they have access to appropriate professional assistance.

WHERE POSSIBLE, ASSISTING YOU TO:

• Find out about your family
• To come to terms with who you are

WORKING WITH ORGANISATIONS

Link-up (NSW) who may provide research, counselling, reunions (where possible), healing weekends. AIATSIS (Australia Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies) who provide access to family tree research and Aboriginal studies.

BRINGING THEM HOME PROGRAM

We seek to redress some of the hurt and assist the healing process.
Funded by: Office Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health (OATSIH)

For further information please complete a referal form or contact the Social & Emotional Wellbeing team on 02 4628 3847