FORGING LINKs conference Young People

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Presentation

• WORKIN-2-GETHER
• Jayde, Karl, Laura, Rachel, Shane, Shelly Vicky

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• Introduction
• Life on the move, Vicky
• Video report, Shelly
• My story with pictures, Jayde
• Looking for the light, Mark for R.
• Our messages to you

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V I C K Y Told her story
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Shelly
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Story work with Jayde
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• I like living in the childrens home because
  staff and other young people are nice to me. When
  I was younger and living in a foster placement I
  didnt get on well with many people but the BRS
  has helped me find somewhere that I want to live.

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• Mark for R. whose oral story we do not have on
  paper her is a poem instead
• Pain,
• by young person
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• What is pain? Two kinds of things
• One when your hurt yourself and
• one when someone does it for you
• Pain, that is what is on my brain
• Nothing but pain and more pain.
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• I just wish it would go away back from where it
  came
• I lay in bed and I wished I was dead
• But then the pain would just be on my mothers
  brain
• And Ive already given her enough hurt
• and pain by playing my game
• And she would go insane!
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• Our messages to you
• Give time out when young people get all stressed
  and need to be alone to think things over
• It helps if teachers know how to deal with pupils
  who are angry
• Please think about brothers and sisters needs
  too

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• Our messages to you
• Take the time to listen to young people and let
  them talk about their problems
• Take us for how we are now, not how we used to be
• If everyone talked to each other they wouldnt
  need to keep asking us

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• Thanks for listening!