![]() 166 Intergenerational resilience has been defined as: ‘the processes whereby people ensure to the best extent possible that the next generations of human and other-than-human relations have what they need to flourish’ 167 Victorian researcher Dr Graham Gee has noted the importance of considering intergenerational resilience when looking for solutions to healing intergenerational trauma ‘because it’s the strengths and the Cultures of Aboriginal people that provide the very sources of having survived’. Research by the Healing Foundation and Maru Marri, University of New South Wales summarised the ongoing effects of intergenerational trauma experience for Stolen Generations and families as ‘the ongoing legacy of not adequately addressing the burden of trauma in the population of people who directly experienced it, and the transgenerational transmission of social, emotional and spiritual wellbeing problems as a result of connections that were severed or attenuated by past government policies.’ 165 163 Intergenerational trauma is now understood as ‘… the effects of traumatic experiences endured during childhood and adulthood being transmitted to subsequent generations.’ 164 162 Although detailed research on how to address intergenerational trauma is still limited there are recent findings that have explored intergenerational trauma and the changes needed for family and community violence, Aboriginal women and Koori parenting in Victoria. 161ĭuring the time period between the Bringing Them Home Report and current time intergenerational trauma has been further researched and identified as an ongoing issue for families of Stolen Generations. The report stated that Reparations should be provided more broadly then just to Stolen Generations to recognise ‘…that the need for rehabilitation will be felt by the people who were removed, their families including their own children and grandchildren and their communities as a whole’. In 1997, recommendation four of the Bringing Them Home Report stated that family members, communities and descendants of Stolen Generations impacted by the separations of children from families should receive Reparations. Further information on the Victorian Stolen Generations descendants population estimate will be provided in the Finity Consulting final report for the Steering Committee in late June 2021. 160 This indicates approximately one sixth of the Victorian Aboriginal population that may be struggling with the impacts of intergenerational trauma. 159 According to research conducted by Finity Consulting there are approximately 9,500-11,300 Victorian descendants of Stolen Generations. 158 The Royal Commission in Victoria’s Mental Health system has estimated that around 47% of the Victorian Aboriginal population have a relative who was Stolen Generation. In June 2021 the Healing Foundation published new research which finds there are 11,500 descendants of Stolen Generations aged over 18 resident in Victoria.
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