Stace Don

I don't feel worthy.

And it is just one of my struggles daily because I think all these people that were supposed to love me, like my mum, my dad, my foster parents, you know, they shut the door on me once I had to leave their house and I got stopped from seeing them.

And then I've lost a lot of people throughout my life.

I just think if all them people who were supposed to love me can't love me, how's someone else meant to?

No.

No, I just don't want to spit it out to someone.

The future, just... Optimistic?

Yeah, I've always been one to try and set goals and achieve because I've always wanted to be a better person than anyone from my past, you know.

So I'm trying to, at the minute, I'm creating programmes.

I've created three, so Parenting Through Trauma, Safe Seen and Heard, which is about empowering children to try and help them protect their safe space.

enlighten them on the signs of grooming, you know, healthy, unhealthy boundaries, the healthy and unhealthiness of the reality of social media, you know, and when your parents are at work or your guardians are at work, don't just go home and jump online and speak to who you don't know.

So it's about giving them that, them tools to be able to help them protect the safe space, which it could have helped me and even show them signs and things that...

would show that something's going on with someone else you know so they can try and help other people around them and then i've got one for grieving for grieving for the living which is about obviously me losing my foster parents he's just left a massive void there um and then my daughter she wants to help me do a three-part program to help anyone in mine and her situation

The whole system, starting from social services.

They was aware of what his capabilities was, obviously his sentences before and stuff.

And they still allowed me to go there without one check.

The first time I lived with him, when my mum's partner dropped me off there after me, begging him to put me in a children's home, they didn't come to the house and check.

They took me out of a loving, healthy home where they could see that I was thriving.

And then within four weeks, I was having hospital visits.

My behaviour had completely changed.