Services for Victoria's Stolen Generations
Connecting Home (CHL) was established in April 2010 to replace Stolen Generations Victoria Ltd, and to continue to provide a range of services, support and advocacy for members of the Stolen Generations and their families. The organisation aims to facilitate greater understanding and recognition within the broader community of the history, stories and ‘journeys of healing’ of the Stolen Generations.
Connecting Home
CHL's services and activities include:
- case management and referral, including supporting members to access family reunion services, counselling, healing services and related services
- working with other service delivery agencies to improve coordination of services to members of the Stolen Generations
- communication and public education, including presentations to organisations, education kits for teachers, regular newsletters
- representing the views of the Stolen Generations and acting on their behalf to achieve improved outcomes for individuals affected by past policies of child removal.
Contact Connecting Home
Connecting Home Ltd
14 Gipps Street
(PO Box 1234)
Collingwood 3066
Victoria Australia
Telephone: (03) 8679 0700
Visit the Connecting Home website.
The Koorie Family History Service
The Koorie Family History Service (KFHS) is a service offered by the Koorie Heritage Trust to assist members of the Indigenous community and the Stolen Generations to trace family and cultural information.
Through the work of the KFHS, people who believe they may have Aboriginal heritage are able to receive some certainty about their family history. For many clients access to this information leads to the opportunity to not only understand their Aboriginal genealogy but facilitates opportunities for connection with family members.
In the case of Stolen Generations clients, the KFHS assists clients to apply for their adoption or wardship file and uses the information contained in these documents to research their family tree. Clients are also referred to Bringing them Home Counsellors, Link-Up for reunion services and Connecting Home Ltd, as appropriate.
Contact the Koorie Family History Service
The KFHS is located at the Koorie Heritage Trust:
295 King Street (cnr Little Lonsdale Street)
Melbourne 3000
Telephone: 03 8622 2600
Visit the Koorie Family History Service website.
Public Records Office Victoria (PROV)
Aboriginal Affairs Victoria supports PROV to continue to undertake a range of Aboriginal record protection and archival activities including:
- the Common Access Guidelines project to develop and implement standard procedures across record-keeping agencies, to improve ease of access by members of the Stolen Generations to their personal records
- small grants for non-Government record-keeping agencies to maintain and protect their Aboriginal records
- the Koorie archival support program.
Contact the PROV Koorie Records Unit
Public Records Office of Victoria
99 Shiel Street
North Melbourne 3051
Tel: (03) 9348 5735
Visit the Koorie Records Unit website.