Last week’s terrible news that a 10-year-old Aboriginal girl had taken her own life shook many Australians. Yet there would be few Aboriginal families who have not already been affected by the suicide or attempted suicide of their young people. This includes our own extended families and kin.read more
This report is a review of the first two years of projects funded under the Healing Foundation’s Stolen Generations Initiative 2013-2015. ISBN: 978-0-9871884-8-9read more
Providing a startling answer to the questions of how to solve the problems of generational trauma, Trauma Trails moves beyond the rhetoric of victimhood, and provides inspiration for anyone concerned about Indigenous and Non-Indigenous communities today. Beginning with issues of colonial dispossession, Judy Atkinson also sensitively deals with trauma caused by abuse, alcoholism, and drug dependency. Sharing their stories, contributors also demonstrate the Aboriginal gift to the nation - Dadirri: listening to one another, and...read more
We Al-li community and workplace workshops are an Indigenous therapeutic response to individual, family and community pain that many people carry as part of their life experience. For Aboriginal peoples this pain is more specifically defined as the traumatic impacts of the multiple intergenerational experiences of colonisation resulting in ill-health, individual, family and community dysfunction (dys - Latin from the Greek dus meaning painful or difficult functioning). We Al-li specifically meets this need through tailored...read more
Patron of We Al-li, Judy Atkinson's presentation on the multiple and complex experiences of trauma and loss that impact on Indigenous children and families and how to start healing.read more
When an Indigenous child or adolescent experiences trauma, loss or grief, there can be extra complexities that need to be taken into account. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians' experiences of loss are multifaceted and complex, and involve the ‘normal’ losses that people experience as well as the other losses that are specific to Indigenous Australians. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians have historical and cultural ways of dealing with loss. These differences should be...read more
