Appendix II.1/1: Special Issue: Draft Introduction and Outline. August 14, 2019

PETT Archive and Study Centre Special Issue: Draft outline (2019-08-14)

Introduction: The creation of an Institution

The Archive and Study Centre was established by the Trustees in 1989 as an extension of the philosophy and practice of therapeutic communities: as an engaged and engaging resource, to be changed and shaped by the communities it served while involving itself with and contributing to their development and growth.

While asking it to take in archive and museum objects, build the library, develop an oral history programme, and provide an information service, the Trustees also asked the Archive and Study Centre to take on a more actively involved and supportive role: to build networks, initiate and join collaborative projects, host and organise conferences and seminars, commission and publish writing, and generally find ways of actively putting the Trust's resources and experience to work to serve the wider community.

There is a significant change from the early 2000s when - following the international downturn in investment income following 9/11 and the high costs of building and furnishing the new facilities which opened in 2002 - the Trust's finances became tighter. Archive staffing and budget levels were cut, and to continue to grow and develop new ways to serve the community, new partnerships were formed. From this came the Therapeutic Community Open Forum (TC-OF) and RadioTC International; the Institute for the History and Work of Therapeutic Environments (IHWTE); the Child Care History Network; and ultimately the "Therapeutic Living With Other People's Children: An oral history of residential therapeutic child care c. 1930 - c. 1980" project supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund; among others.

Part 1: The Archive and Study Centre: outline history

Part 2: The Work

1. "Departments"

1.1 Archives

• • • Overview of collections/collecting
    • Fieldwork/services

1.2. Oral History

• • • Overview of collections/collecting
    • Support for researchers
    • Services: Recording, editing, publishing: Windsor Conference, Enabling Environments, Community of Communities Annual Forum

1.3. Research Library

• • • Overview of collections/collecting

• • • National Child Care Library

1.4. Museum

1.5. Information Services

• • • Bibliographies
    • Publication and Online Publication
    • "Open Sources" project

2. Support and Service: "the Trustees also asked the Archive and Study Centre to take on a more actively involved and supportive role"

2.1 Brought therapeutic communities into the online age (1998 - 2000+), pioneering social media, creating connection, and projecting therapeutic community onto the Internet

• • • • ATC website, including sites for Gartree and Francis Dixon Lodge
      • Cassel Hospital website
      • Charterhouse Group website
        • NB: on the pettarchiv.org.uk website we had installed a search engine on which you could search the ATC, TCOF, Charterhouse Group, and Archive websites as an integrated group.
      • Email Groups

• • • • Therapeutic Community Open Forum (2005)
        • RadioTC International
        • Second Life

2.2 The Joint Newsletter (2001-2004)

2.3 ATC Secretariat (2005)

• • • • This came about almost by mistake. When Sue Matoff gave notice that she intended to retire as the Association of Therapeutic Communities Administrator, the ATC decided to put the administration out to tender. Needing additional income, archivist Craig Fees began to put a bid together. Not feeling he had the accounting skills for that side of the administration, he approached the ladies in the office about the possibility of a joint bid. In the confusion it became a bid from PETT, beginning an association which lasted almost ten years, and at one point involved answering three phones: The PETT office phone, the PETT Archive and Study Centre phone, and the ATC admin/helpline phone.

2.4 Institute for the History and Work of Therapeutic Environments (2007)

• • • • Child Care History Network (2008)

2.5 Therapeutic Living With Other People's Children Project (2010)

2.6 The Oxford Project/Phoenix Unit

2.7 Organising conferences, seminars, workshops

• • • • including Leaderless Groups

Part 3: Contributions from users and stakeholders setting out its meaning and workings from their experience: Thoughts on the Archives.

• Putting down a significant marker for the therapeutic community approach to archives, history, heritage, and those people who have experienced, worked in, and researched. The Archive as a practical tool: as an expression of therapeutic community and its history, with practical roll-out consequences .
  • Academic Research and Researchers
  • Communities
  • Others

Part 4: Forward-looking Theory and Visions (The place of the work of the Archive and Study Centre in the future)

• Invited essays on what an archive is, and what it can be, with special reference to the Archive and Study Centr

Appendices

1. PETT GDPR Policy [edited]

2. "Overview", Therapeutic Living With Other People's Children