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Fiction featuring Care Experience

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The Promise

Tony Birch

2014

In this collection of 12 stories, Tony Birch includes one which features a care experienced character, an Aboriginal Australian who was raised by his grandmother after his mother left.In The Promise, Luke is struggling with an alcohol addiction, his wife has left him and taken their children. Life looks more promising after a spiritual experience.

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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