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Confessions of a Life Story Worker – Part 2 of 2

This artice is the follow on article from Confessions of a Life Story Worker: Part 1. Whose job is it to do the Life Story Work? When I began doing Life Story Work I was worried that I may be breaching statutory laws. I saw the work as belonging solely to Child Safety Officers. My Australian experience with Child Safety workers told me that they were too busy and spent minimal time on their case loads and Life Story Work wasn’t being achieved. Also, their understanding of Life Story Work appeared to fit within a Freedom of Information framework – … Continue reading →

Confessions of a Life Story Worker – Part 1 of 2

Adopted children, or kids in foster care, have a HUGE need to know why they are living with someone else. When they leave foster care, they often have little information to make sense of having been there. They struggle to explain their life history to new friends and to themselves. Help them to put together their experiences by providing them with a life story book that can be added to over the years. I first heard about Life Story Work in 1997. I was working with children who had been sexually abused. Some of the seminal writers from the U.K. … Continue reading →