family – Aboriginal Child Artists of Carrolup: Healing Trauma

23/01/2023

Author: David Clark on 23/01/2023

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‘Telling our stories in ways that make us stronger’ by Barb Wingard and Jane Lester

This blog post is an extract from the book Telling our stories in ways that make us stronger by Barb Wingard and Jane Lester (Dulwich Centre Publications, 2001). The original extract can be found here. [Please note that I broken up some of the long paragraphs in the original […]

25/06/2019

Author: David Clark on 25/06/2019

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Meet Cheryle Jones, Whose Mother Was At Carrolup

The story of Carrolup is one that needs to be told in full detail. We must not just relate the story of the Carrolup children and the people with whom they interacted with at that time, but also tell the stories of the impact that the children and their achievements had […]

13/06/2019

Author: David Clark on 13/06/2019

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Impact of substance use problems on the family

Some people use drugs or alcohol to numb the pain arising from trauma which has resulted from adverse experiences in earlier life (e.g. abuse as a child, war experiences, car accident). Some of these people go on to develop an addiction to the substance. The drug concerned may […]

20/03/2019

Mrs Rutter with Prince Rudy Dinah and a group of Carrolup girls. The girl second from the left is Mildred Jones. Photographer: Noel White, 31st July 1949. Noel & Lily White Collection.

Author: David Clark on 20/03/2019

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Cheryle Jones’s Mother, Mildred Jones, at Carrolup

One of the aims of our project is to connect with families of the Aboriginal children who were at Carrolup. We want them to be able learn about what we have discovered about Carrolup and the people who were there – if they so wish – and hopefully […]

13/03/2019

The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog by Bruce Perry and Maia Szalavitz.

Author: David Clark on 13/03/2019

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Relationships, Connection and Healing from Trauma

For anyone interested in the healing of childhood trauma, I strongly recommend you read, The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And other Stories From a Child Psychiatrists Notebook by Bruce Perry and Maia Szalavitz. Here is a description of the book from the back cover: ‘What happens when […]

26/01/2019

Judy Atkinson, Member of the Order of Australia (AM)

Author: David Clark on 26/01/2019

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Judy Atkinson: Member of the Order of Australia (AM)

Huge congratulations to Judy Atkinson, who today becomes a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for her services to the Indigenous community, to education and to mental health. This is such wonderful news, truly well-deserved. As I have said a number times, Judy’s book Trauma Trails: Recreational Song Lines […]