Image: Staff and boys outside the main dormitory at Tally Ho Boys' Training Farm, 1908. Courtesy Uniting Heritage Service, Victoria.
Our new online learning course Out-of-Home Care Records Toolkit is now live! It is designed to support anyone holding the records of out-of-home care in understanding the needs of people who grew up in out-of-home care, and in providing access to records of out-of-home care in a safe and empathetic way.
This toolkit was developed for the Australian Society of Archivists by Kirsten Wright and Nicola Laurent, with assistance from Dr Cate O’Neill, University of Melbourne. It was supported by the Council of Australasian Archives and Records Authorities (CAARA).
It features videos from Caroline Carroll, OAM, Community Education Coordinator, Open Place, and President, Alliance for Forgotten Australians (AFA), Leonie Sheedy, OAM, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Care Leavers Australasia Network (CLAN), Frank Golding, OAM, Author, researcher, historian. Frank is an Honorary Research Fellow at Federation University in Victoria, Australia, and the Vice-President of the Care Leavers Australasia Network (CLAN), Barbara Reed, Director, Recordkeeping Innovation, Michaela Hart, Senior Archivist, Department of Health and Human Services, Victoria and Eithne Donlan, Manager of the Records, Coordinated Support and Regional Outreach teams, Open Place, Victoria.
Early bird and special members rates available.
We are also hosting an Out-of-Home Care Records Webinar with Q&A on Thursday 30 July from 1-2pm. Join our panel for a discussion about issues around out-of-home care records, and how archives can improve access processes for people who grew up in out-of-home care. You can find full details and register for the event here.
Read our recent News Item for more information about the course release.
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