Healing from inter-generational trauma for Stolen Generations becomes a journey for the entire family. Trauma doesn't stop at one person.
National Sorry Day 2016 marked nineteen years since the Bringing Them Home Report was tabled into federal parliament.
The report was handed down after the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families in April 1997.
The Healing Foundation are calling for all governments across Australia to revisit the fifty four recommendations and further implement those that are not being worked with, to improve the lives of First Nations people.
CEO Richard Weston says support for culturally safe healing spaces and reparations packages are included in the recommendations and are a key priority in addressing trauma from the intergenerational impacts made on our Stolen Generations and their families.
