National Care Leavers Month - Rising as Me Film

Rising as Me

by Louisa Foyle

Pan London Children in Care Council

There’s a moment in every care experienced person’s life when you stop surviving as someone’s story and start rising as your own. For too long the word care has been defined by systems, not by us. But this month we reclaim it. We rise as our whole selves’ complex, creative, independent, and free.

“Rising As Me” is about identity beyond the paperwork. It’s about learning that you are not your file, your placement, or your past you are your becoming.

To every care leaver:

you are not what happened to you.

You are what you build,

the stories you tell

and the lives you’ll impact next.

 We rise for those who came before

we rise for those finding their way

and we rise as us.

Care experienced loud and resilient.

Strong. Seen. Self-defined.

#NationalCareLeaversMonth

The Pan London Children in Care Council (CiCC) is hosted by Partnership for Young London and is sponsored by the Association of London Directors of Children’s Services and the City of London Corporation. More details are here.

This film was developed by the Pan London CiCC.