Become is the national charity working to improve the everyday lives and future life chances of children in care and young care leavers. Become provide advice and support, influence policy and practice, help guide the lives of young people in care and care leavers, enable them to achieve their education aspirations and train professionals who work with young people.
Taking Care of Me
We know that many care-experienced young people have challenges in their lives that impact on wellbeing. They also have many skills, strengths, and resources to manage these challenges. We wanted to make sure these skills were captured and shared so they could help other young people in similar positions.
Over six months, the young people who attended our Link-Ups met with a clinical psychologist to share some of the ways they were already managing their wellbeing, and to learn more about these techniques. Our new wellbeing guide ‘Taking Care of Me’ is a collection of those brilliant and incredibly valuable ideas.
The guide contains information about managing stress and improving your wellbeing, as well as some exercises for you to try. We hope that by sharing these ideas, other young people can benefit from the wisdom of the Link-Up group.
We want to say a massive thank you to Carmen, Florida, Rachele-Leah, Jasmine and the rest of the Link-Up group, who wish to remain anonymous for their contribution to the guide.
‘Taking Care of Me’ is free to download.
Care-experienced young people
The wellbeing guide, 'Taking Care of Me' can be downloaded online via the Become website.
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You can download your copy for free
To download your copy, please Visit the Wellbeing Guide pdf on the Become Charity website
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