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C-BERSS EX-PRESS
March 2004
Issue 1, Vol 7
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All Newsletters : March 2004 : We Welcome Our New C-BERS Counsellor
We Welcome Our New C-BERS Counsellor
Hello. I am the new counsellor at CBERS - my given name is Philippa, but I like to be called Pip.
My contact with CBERS first began in June last year when I worked on the Senate Inquiry Submission into Children in Institutional Care. Since preparing the submission, and now that I have joined CBERSS as a counsellor, I have some inkling of what life might have been like for the young children who were placed in institutions in Australia.
As a social worker and researcher I have worked with many different groups of people, but never specifically with former child migrants or adults who had been in child care institutions. I feel it is really important for us all to recognize the huge difficulties that were faced by child migrants, the problems associated with institutional care, and the damage that was caused to those children who were abused.
I think CBERS provides a positive way forward - to recognize the harm caused in the past, to help people reconnect with their families of origin, and to provide support and assistance to the men who are ex-residents of institutional child care and/or former child migrants.
At present, I am here at CBERS on Wednesdays. I am currently on ‘the home stretch’ of my doctorate in social work and social policy at UWA, and I also work as a consultant and researcher for other organizations.
I feel privileged to join the CBERS group, and have been made to feel very welcome by my co-workers and by all the people who have I have met and spoken to so far. I look forward to meeting many more of you in the future.
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