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- Category: Career experienced people
- How social media affects our self- perceptions
- International Women’s Day- Alexa Thompson
- The IMO Podcast, series 4 episode 4: Luke’s story
- Living with depression – Benita, Care LeaverÂ
- Navigating the Workplace with Dyslexia
- An experience with Personal Advisors – Jerome Agyei
- Top tips for starting a new job as a care leaver
- Black Leaders Awareness Day – Annie Gibbs
- Rainbows in the Cloud – Annie Gibbs
- Apply to be on the Children’s Commissioner’s Care Experienced Advisory Board
- Career experienced people: Meet Louise, a Civil Service Care Leaver Intern
- IMO: Annual round up
- Supportive messages for Christmas from the IMO community
- The Guarantor Scheme: giving care leavers the opportunity to rent privately
- The IMO Podcast, series 3 episode 5: Scarlett’s story
- The IMO Podcast, series 3 episode 4: Ric Flo
- The IMO Podcast, series 3 episode 3: Isabelle’s story
- Setting up a loving space for care leavers to combat loneliness at Christmas
- The IMO Podcast, series 3 episode 1: Jerome’s story
- Get your voice heard as part of The Big Ask
- The IMO podcast, series 2 episode 7: Djamila’s story
- Taking control of the narrative with my debut novel Careless
- Behind the glittering bows: creating new traditions at Christmas
- The IMO Podcast: Conversations at Christmas
- Bonus IMO podcast episode: we’ve won GOLD at the European Lovie Awards!
- The IMO podcast, series 2 episode 4: Zara’s story
- Career experienced people: Meet Meera, a care-experienced Associate Director at the NHS
- What I wish I’d known before becoming a care-experienced social worker
- Making the jump from care to college
- How accurate is Tracy Beaker?
- Do I regret going into care?
- How do you #definecare? A collaborative poem by care experienced people
- How coronavirus has impacted me as a care leaver, and advice for others
- The more you give, the more you get back
- Children aren’t leaving care, care is leaving them
- Care Day 2020: Dear future me
- Who are you? Expressing identities through art
- Taking my power back through creative writing
- Seven years of separation in care
- Changing the way foster carers are recruited
- Let’s chat: Foster care, trauma, the media, and why it’s time to change
- The IMO Podcast, series 1 episode 5: Steven’s story
- The IMO Podcast, series 1 episode 4: Rihanna’s story
- The IMO Podcast, series 1 episode 3: Nathaniel and Victoria’s stories
- The IMO Podcast, series 1 episode 2: Ryan’s story
- From loss to lectures
- The IMO Podcast, series 1 episode 1: Ella’s story
- Saving lives
- My life in foster care
- My journey
- I’m worth so much more than I believed
- What are your reasons to be proud?
- ‘Write Speak Share’ writing competition winners announced
- #caretolisten: Children’s Commissioner Anne Longfield on her ‘superpower’ for children in the care system
- [COMPETITION CLOSED] Share your biggest achievement for your chance to win 40 hours of driving lessons with the AA
- #caretolisten: new podcast series featuring first-hand experiences of life in care
- What you should know about Kai
- Dispelling stereotypes around dating and relationships in foster care
- Surviving your first placement
- Why I’ve launched a YouTube channel dedicated to sharing my experiences
- Dear younger me
- Breaking away from care
- What people think
- Why should I join my local Children in Care Council?
- Why we joined our local Children in Care Council
- My unconventional route to university
- I made it out
- IMO chats to Cambridge graduate and care leaver Ashley John Baptiste
- Welcome to IMO – a message from others
- Our humanity
- What’s it’s really like to be in care?
- Time to care more
- An open letter to my foster carer
- Category: Careers
- Category: Education
- Category: Life hacks
- Category: Other opportunities
- Category: Positive outcomes
- Category: Recipes
- Category: Uncategorised
- Category: Your projects
- Category: Your stories
- The IMO Podcast, series 4 episode 3: Rebekah’s story
- The IMO Podcast, series 4 episode 2: Louise’s story
- The IMO Podcast, series 4 episode 1: Isatu’s story
- My experience with my Personal Advisor – Care LeaverÂ
- Nightmare – Maz
- Living independently: An experience of blind bidding Â
- Are we ever ready? – poem by Sophie.
- The IMO Podcast, series 3 episode 2: Ashley’s back
- Be heard, be inspired!
- Producing arts and theatre work by care experienced people
- Our first night in a children’s home
- Getting that ‘lightbulb moment’ to try new things
- The IMO podcast, series 2 episode 6: Jojo’s story
- Giving care leavers a Christmas Day they’ll never forget
- Six tips for making the best of the festive season
- Kickstart your career with our virtual careers event – sign up now!
- The IMO Podcast, series 2 episode 3: Max and Brandon’s story
- The IMO Podcast, series 2 episode 2: Charlotte’s story
- The IMO Podcast: nominated for Best New Podcast at the 2020 British Podcast Awards!
- The IMO Podcast, series 2 episode 1: Louise’s story
- Coronavirus: what help and support do you need?
- How can I look after my wellbeing while self-isolating?
- Coronavirus – what you need to know
- Finding my voice and owning my reality
- Roots, Shoots and Fruits: The Care Experienced Conference 2019
- The strength within you
- Conversations with care leavers: staying in touch with family
- Have you been kind today?
- #caretolisten: Stuart Haden on why it is important to listen to the voices of children in care
- Dear younger me: School
- Conversations with care leavers: leaving care and living independently
- Dear younger me: Stigma
- Coming out without a family
- Conversations with care leavers: getting a job
- Conversations with care leavers: gaining independence after care
- Dear younger me: Mental health
- Foster Care Fortnight 2019: Changing futures
- What makes us all thrive
- Conversations with care leavers featuring Debbie Douglas: Fostering through the years
- A bumpy road to feeling good
- Keep sharing your stories
- Dear me
- A list of incredible people who were fostered, adopted or in children’s homes, compiled by Lemn Sissay
- Dear younger me: Relationships
- #caretolisten: Rapper Ric Flo channels his thoughts and feelings about his care experience through his music
- Studying at the University of Oxford as a care leaver
- Walking in our shoes
- Dear younger me: Speaking up and getting help
- Dear younger me: Confidence
- My journey from foster care to the University of Oxford
- Dear younger me: Life lessons
- Dear younger me: advice to my younger self
- She read as she cradled
- Do you have a story to tell?
- What matters most to you?
- What does the term ‘family’ actually mean?
- Let’s talk about mental health
