Healing

Welcome to The Healing Foundation’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Healing Portal, an online hub for people working in healing, health, justice, education, employment, child protection, community services and family violence sectors.

The Healing Portal is designed to encourage information sharing across sectors. It brings together best practice healing initiatives and information about why healing is needed, and what is working in Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander communities. The Portal includes the latest research, reports, case studies, videos and tools from around Australia to enable people to bring trauma aware, healing informed practices into their organisations and communities.

If you need health or wellbeing support for yourself or a Stolen Generation survivor or descendant, please contact a health professional. For more information visit Gayaa Dhuwi, or for crisis support contact 13 Yarn (13 92 76).

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What role can you play in Healing?

The Healing Foundation has committed to a strong and ambitious vision to ensure that Every Australian knows their role in healing.

This vision underlies the new Strategic Plan (the Plan) for The Healing Foundation, for 2023-2028. Informed by survivors, and developed in collaboration with, The Healing Foundation Board, the Stolen Generations and Youth Reference Groups, the new strategy reflects survivors’ aspirations for The Healing Foundation.

The plan can be accessed here.

The Healing Foundation’s next steps

What is healing? Why is it important for all of us to understand this? Watch CEO, Shannan Dodson as she outlines how The Healing Foundation is actively leading healing and working towards bringing an end to the trauma experienced by Stolen Generation survivors and their descendants.

Make Healing Happen – It’s Time to Act.

Make Healing Happen is a detailed report addressing the specific experiences of Stolen Generations survivors, and the complexity of their needs now, and as they grow older. The report calls for urgent policy responses from all Australian governments to assist with the healing process for Stolen Generations survivors and their descendants.

Read Make Healing Happen here.

Fiona Cornforth, National Press Club Address