Personal story submitted January 2015.<\/p>\n
As a young person that has been and grown up in care since I was 10 years of age and eight years of that I lived within the same residential unit I think that it is very important that the relationships that I have made with several of the workers that have known me since I was a little girl and has watched me grow is a massive part of life.<\/p>\n
The few staff that know me so well are able to help me through difficult times and are able to offer me support and guidance whenever I am in need of it. As a young person feeling this way I like to write things down a lot to express how I am feeling and share it with the staff and when I have came to the conclusion of how I am feeling the way I was I will look back at what I wrote and will ask myself what made me feel this way.<\/p>\n
Now as a young person ready to leave care and move to my own tenency there is a part of me that is scared as I feel as if some of the most important people that have played a part in my life for the past eight years is soon going to be taken away from me and I am going to then loose that relationship and support but also massively I am going to be loosing people that have became a part of my family. I somtimes sit and ask myself several questions such as:<\/p>\n
Why does it have to end? Why can’t I keep that relationship that I have with those that care about me and I care about back? Why does it have to be this way? What can I do as a young person seeking these things do to make them happen? and last of all What can I do as a young person to help it not be like this for other young people?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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