Building a Life Story: Providing Records and Support to Former Residents of Children's Homes
Building a Life Story: Providing Records and Support to Former Residents of Children's Homes
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构建人生故事：为儿童之家的前居民提供记录和支持
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2008
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J. Glare
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S. Murray;J. Malone;J. Glare
摘要在20世纪世纪，大约有50万儿童被安置在澳大利亚的孤儿院和其他形式的儿童之家。然而，在护理中成长不仅仅是童年的一部分;它可以对一个人的一生产生持续的影响。查阅记录是一种非常重要的方式，在机构护理中长大的人可以通过这种方式构建自己的生活故事，有助于他们的自我认同，并找到实用的信息，如他们的确切出生日期和病史。本文以澳大利亚政府第三次报告中关于澳大利亚儿童被遗忘的澳大利亚人的制度化的建议为出发点，并对42至76岁的儿童之家的前居民进行了访谈，以研究他们在澳大利亚获得记录的情况。我们讨论了一个案例研究，独特的遗产信息服务在麦基洛普家庭服务，支持前居民访问他们的记录，并考虑在这方面工作的机构的良好做法的影响。
Abstract Approximately 500,000 children were institutionalised in Australian orphanages and other forms of children's Homes over the course of the 20th century. However, growing up in care is not just a part of childhood; it can have ongoing impact across a person's life. Access to records can be a very important way in which people who grew up in institutional care construct the story of their lives, contributing to their self-identity, and also find out practical information, such as their exact date of birth and medical history. The present article takes as its starting point a recommendation of the third of the Australian Government reports concerned with the institutionalisation of Australian children—Forgotten Australians—and draws on interviews with former residents of children's Homes aged between 42 and 76 years to examine their access to records in Australia. We discuss a case study, the unique Heritage Information Service at MacKillop Family Services, which supports former residents to access their records, and consider the implications for good practice of agencies working in this area.