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CEHM, what’s been and what’s to come.

  • April 19, 2021
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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
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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
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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
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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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Holidays out of Home

  • January 15, 2021
  • in Features
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For children in care, summer came with the opportunity of a holiday.

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2020 Christmas closures

  • December 17, 2020
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Find and Connect Support Services Christmas shutdown dates.

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Read all about it: Advertising for adoption

  • December 11, 2020
  • in Features
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A 1966 video advertises the benefits of fostering a child in care, following a long history of advertising children.

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