Take advantage of our pack discount pricing and purchase a 2 course pac. This course pack includes the A Trauma-Informed Approach to Managing Archives and Out-of-Home Care Records Toolkits.
NOTE: Both courses include exclusive video content and interactive quiz elements. A custom certificate will be delivered upon completion. Estimated length to complete each course is between 2-4 hours.
Included in this 2 course pack:
A Trauma-Informed Approach to Managing Archives
This self-directed online toolkit is designed to assist archives and record-holding organisations implement a trauma-informed approach tot heir work and services, so that all users feel safe and supported to access the records they need. The course covers three areas:
- Key concepts and principles behind a trauma-informed approach
- Trauma-informed archival practice
- Vicarious trauma
By the end of this course you will be able to:
- Understand what trauma-informed practice is and why this model is useful within an archives or record-holding setting
- List and define the five principles of trauma-informed practice
- Demonstrate what your organisation can do to become more trauma-informed
- Describe specific issues to consider when implementing a trauma-informed approach within an archives setting
- Explain what vicarious trauma is and why archivists and users of archives may be affected
- Identify the symptoms of vicarious trauma, and what can be done to assist people experiencing vicarious trauma.
This Trauma-Informed Approach to Managing Archives course was developed by Nicola Laurent and Kirsten Wright with assistance from Genevieve Wauchope and Dr Cate O'Neill, University of Melbourne.
Out-of-Home Care Records Toolkit
This self-directed online toolkit is designed to support anyone holding the records of out-of-home care in understanding the needs of people who grew up in out-of-home care, and in providing access to records of out-of-home care in a safe and empathetic way. The course will cover:
- Topics about the historical background of out-of-home care in Australia, and why records are so important in this context
- The findings of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse relating to records; the importance of contextual records; and
- Providing access to records of out-of-home care.
By the end of this course you will be able to:
- Understand the history of child welfare in Australia and why this history is still important today
- Articulate why records are important for people who grew up in out-of-home care
- Explain the recordkeeping-related findings and recommendations of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, and recognise what these recommendations mean for your organisation
- Acknowledge the important of a variety of records to people who grew up in out-of-home care, including photographs and contextual records
- Understand the issues around providing access to records of out-of home care, including why topics like redaction and third-party privacy are significant in this space
- Describe the Access to Records Principles and Best Practice Guidelines, identify the key issues articulated in these and know when they are useful to use
- Demonstrate the importance of providing compassionate, maximum access to the records you hold.
This Out-of-Home Care Records toolkit was developed for the Australian Society of Archivists by Kirsten Wright and Nicola Laurent, with assistance from Dr Cate O'Neill, University of Melbourne. It was supported by the Council of Australasian Archives and Records Authorities (CAARA).