National Care Leavers Month 2025

A Message from our Founder & CEO

Growing up in Foster Care from the age of 9, I experienced various challenges such as exclusions from school and college, run ins with the law and a crisis which led to a period of poor mental health when I became a Care Leaver at age 26. But after what I’d call a miraculous recovery, I was surrounded by Mentors who helped me map out the next chapters in my life and the rest (as they say) is history!

With that in mind, to inspire hope in children and young people in care and care leavers, in 2012 I filmed a 6 Part Documentary ‘From Foster Care to Role Model’ not only to share my care experience story, but to also convey a message that with the right support from the right people, change in our lives is possible. You’ll find it by clicking on the button at the end of this blog.

During National Care Leavers Month (and beyond) feel free to share it with the care experienced children and young people in your care and as it is watched I trust and hope that they’ll see that our care experience is one of the chapters in our lives and not the end of our story.

Please note as you watch, Transformed The Movement is now The Transformed You.

Here are My Chapters:

• The Day I Was Born

• In Care

• School, College, University, Law School

• Care Leaver 

• Employee 

• Entrepreneur

• Employer

• Founder & CEO of The Transformed You

• Founder & Chair of The Black Care Experience 

• Mentor

• Author 

• Speaker

• Trainer

• Coach Consultant

• Event Host

• Singer Songwriter 

• Web Designer

• Spurs Fan 

• Currently Being Written

Keep Writing YOUR Story! It won’t be easy, but if you are open to learning and healing, CHANGE IS POSSIBLE!