Coming Home to Me
Rachel Morley, Milissa Deitz, Vincent Tay
This collaborative film brings together academia, advocacy and lived experience to champion young people in foster care. It considers how Therapeutic Life Story Work, a biographical narrative methodology, supports this group to reclaim their identities through a process grounded in the willingness to have difficult, yet urgent conversations. Hannah's story, shared here, documents the challenges in accessing her story and the benefits once she learnt it through TLSW. It is an advocacy story for systems change.
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Dr Rachel Morley is a Senior Lecturer in Communication and Writing. As a lecturer, she teaches writing, media studies, and creative industries. She has engaged closely with local and national arts and cultural institutions to build strong collaborative partnerships that are high on research, learning and creative outcomes. In research, Rachel has worked on participatory storytelling projects in communities across Western Sydney, Northern NSW, Central Australia and Taiwan.
Dr Milissa Deitz is a Senior Lecturer in Communication and Writing and the Academic Program Adviser for the Creative Industries degree. Her scholarly interests include young people, wellbeing and technology; grief, identity and family; and voice and the marginalised within digital storytelling. Her latest book Foster Youth in the Mediasphere: Lived Experience and Digital Lives in the Australian Out-Of-Home Care System was published by Palgrave MacMillan in 2022.
Vincent Tay is an Associate Lecturer in Screen Media who teaches and researches screen media. He is an active filmmaker with over 30 years of expertise.