Review of potentially useful tools and methods for evaluating healing programs for Aboriginal Australians affected by the Stolen Generations

This report used a systematic process to identify tools that could potentially be useful in the evaluation of healing programs of interest for delivery in the proposed Healing Centre being planned by KBHAC. Most of the tools that were identified in the Long and Short Lists fell short on many of the important desirable characteristics that emerged through projects undertaken with extensive consultation with members of the Stolen Generations and the Healing Centre.Some tools with desirable characteristics were developed for population surveys or for screening and/or clinical use for alcohol and other drug addictions or for mental health problems, and do not measure healing and growth in program settings.However, some tools met many of these criteria; these we identify as Recommended Tools that seemed most suitable for KBHAC’s interests, with or without adaptation and standalone or in combination with other tools. For adults, these included the Growth and Empowerment Measure, the Self-Evaluated Individual Quality of Life scale (SEIQoL) and the Caring for Country measure (adapted to suit specific Healing Centre Activities). Of these tools, only the GEM has been used in several evaluations of Aboriginal programs in different settings and had its appropriateness and sensitivity to change documented. The SEIQoL has also proven useful in alcohol and drug rehabilitation settings with Aboriginal people. The GEM is unique in being directly informed in its development by interviews of participants in a program developed by and for members of the Stolen Generation to assist Aboriginal healing and empowerment. Given the proposed Healing Centre may include programs that assist in improving connection to country, the Caring for Country measure may be considered for providing a model for measuring engagement in gardening and maintenance activities at the proposed Healing Centre. If modified and used, it would probably need to accompany another tool which measured healing more directly and holistically.The Stay Strong Plan also offers a number of advantages as a possible care-planning tool for counselling activities that may be delivered in a Healing Centre. However, it does not yet have a validated measurement dimension so its usefulness as an evaluation tool remains unknown. A combination of the Stay Strong Plan and the GEM is currently being trialled in Queensland as part of a therapeutic and outcome assessment toolkit for social and emotional wellbeing and mental health care

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