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Stolen Generations Collective Healing Initiatives rounds 1–6: impacts and findings
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In July 2012, The Healing Foundation announced its first funding initiative specifically for Stolen Generations survivors. The Stolen Generations Initiative was designed to meet the unique healing needs and aspirations of Stolen Generations survivors.
Activities that may be delivered under this funding initiative include:
- structured workshops and programs
- healing gatherings and camps
- day trips to Country and important cultural sites
- documenting survivors’ individual or group stories through mediums of poetry, song writing, storytelling, art, or drama, culminating in the production of books, painting, or murals, plays, song collections, or films
- peer support groups and yarning circles.
Notably, by mid-2020, Australia was in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. At the very outset of the pandemic, the vulnerability of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples was well understood by community leaders and non-Indigenous policymakers and clinicians. Factors that were known to increase the risks associated with infection included an already high burden of chronic disease, longstanding inequity issues related to service provision and access to healthcare (especially for those living in remote and very remote communities), and pervasive social and economic disadvantage in areas such as housing, education, and employment.
This report examines the outcomes and benefits of the first six (6) funding rounds of the Stolen Generations Initiative, which were offered between 2012 and 2020.
This report presents the analysis of data contained in the progress reports and final reports that funded Stolen Generations organisations provided to The Healing Foundation. Such reporting has been a requirement within the funding agreement that each Stolen Generations organisation enters into with The Healing Foundation. Within these reports, organisations provide quantitative and qualitative data, as well as case studies to demonstrate the on-ground community-based evidence. This reporting is structured against reportable outcomes for three National Outcomes Indicators developed ahead of the commencement of the first round of funding.
