Yvonne's Blog

Recently I was invited to the University of West London to talk to Level 4 Social Work students. The topic of discussion was resilience....

Daughter Arise is eight years old! It is an amazing achievement to have reached our eighth year and I am proud. It has been challenging...

I remember the first time I had to say a difficult goodbye. It was the day the social workers came to take me into government care at...

At the beginning of the year I wrote about the importance of setting goals and having something positive to focus on. I have found this...

Because of personal challenges and the injustice I experienced, for a long time I was angry and unappreciative about my life. I did not...

It is easy to assume because you survived through the initial brutal battlefield of childhood abuse that once you become of age, the road...

I had yet another wonderful opportunity to organise, manage and co-ordinate the annual foster carers reception for the local authority...