Identifying and assisting individuals who experienced institutional care as children 106-01030040
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The Alliance for Forgotten Australians - the Alliance includes groups and selected individuals promoting the interests of Forgotten Australians through advocacy and projects.
Care Leavers Australia Network - Support and advocacy for people who grew up in orphanages, children’s homes, or foster care and their families.
The Child Migrants Trust - A registered charity that provides counselling and support, and helps to re-unite families of former child migrants.
Find & Connect - A national network of support services to help Forgotten Australians and former child migrants to access support and counselling, obtain personal records, trace their history, and if possible, reconnect with family.
Link-Up - Link-Up organisations provide a range of services to members of the Stolen Generations, their families, and foster and adoptive families. These include: support and counselling, assistance with researching and accessing family and personal records, and assistance with finding family members.
State support services
New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory - Wattle Place - Forgotten Australians
Northern Territory - Relationships Australia® Northern Territory
Queensland - Lotus Place
South Australia - Relationships Australia® South Australia
Tasmania - Relationships Australia® Tasmania
Victoria - Open Place
Western Australia - Relationships Australia® Western Australia
Further Information - Senate Inquires
Bringing them Home Report (1997) - report into the Stolen Generations, the separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families and community. Many Indigenous children were removed because of their race, and as a consequence, lost connection with their culture and land.
Lost Innocents: Righting the Record - Report on child migration - 2001 report into Child Migrants, children who were migrated to Australia in the post-war period primarily from the United Kingdom, without their families and often without the knowledge of their parents.
Forgotten Australians: A report on Australians who experienced institutional or out-of-home care as children - 2004 report into Australians who experienced institutional care as children, and who were not covered by the previous 2 inquiries.
Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse - The royal commission ran from 2013-2017 and inquired into and reported upon responses by institutions to instances and allegations of child sexual abuse in Australia.