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Autobiography/Memoir

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Out of the Forest

Gregory Smith

2018

For ten years a man calling himself Will Power lived in near-total isolation in northern New South Wales, foraging for food, eating bats and occasionally trading for produce. Today, Dr Gregory Peel Smith, who was in an orphanage and kinship care as a child and who left school at the age of fourteen, has a PhD and teaches in the Social Sciences at university.

Children and young people in social care, and those who have left, are often subject to stigmatisation and discrimination. Being stigmatised and discriminated against can impact negatively on mental health and wellbeing not only during the care experience but often for many years after too. The project aims to contribute towards changing community attitudes towards care experienced people as a group. See glossary HERE


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