This report and accompanying key messages document were developed as part of the DHHS funded “Aboriginal Young People Leaving Care” project. They provide a trauma-informed framework to assist workers supporting Aboriginal young people leaving care to form and sustain positive relationships, have a positive identity, learn, work and enjoy life.
The framework reflects an understanding of not only the too common experiences for these young people of trauma through abuse and neglect, but also of their too rarely acknowledged strengths and resilience in the face of these experiences.
