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Child Protection Agency in Australia Introduces Digital Memory Boxes for Kids in Foster Care

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One of the lead child protection agencies in Australia,Barnardos Australia, has introduced a resource for children and youth in foster care: a digital “memory box” called MyStory.

 

The purpose of the digital memory box is to give children and youth in foster care a place to store their photos, report cards, drawings, letters, and other documents without fear of losing them while in foster care. In doing so, the agency hopes to provide a sense of stability for kids in foster care, especially those who might have multiple placements throughout their lives.

 

http://cascw.umn.edu/spa/austr...igital-memory-boxes/

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Originally Posted by Tina Marie Hahn, MD:

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One of the lead child protection agencies in Australia,Barnardos Australia, has introduced a resource for children and youth in foster care: a digital “memory box” called MyStory.

 

The purpose of the digital memory box is to give children and youth in foster care a place to store their photos, report cards, drawings, letters, and other documents without fear of losing them while in foster care. In doing so, the agency hopes to provide a sense of stability for kids in foster care, especially those who might have multiple placements throughout their lives.

 

http://cascw.umn.edu/spa/austr...igital-memory-boxes/

Have any of you on ACEs been in foster care? I am sure you have!!!! This is a great idea.... to prevent further trauma in a system that doesn't know trauma... I was recently at a DHS meeting and they told me there was no way I was made an emancipated minor in Michigan in 1985... So I said "Well I don't know what I was but I had nothing but a plastic bag with one tee shirt that was too small and that is it.... No pictures of my siblings that I had to leave behind .. No record of me even being.... So why has no-one jumped on this as something simple that we can do for the kids????? SPREAD this WORD... It is very low cost but high benefit for those of us in a system that JUST DOESN"T UNDERSTAND that LITTLE IS SO MUCH!!!!

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