Tay Does Life With Alastair Cope - Head of Foster Wales - Future of Foster Care in Wales (FOSTER CARE AWARENESS)
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TRIGGER WARNING - MENTAL HEALTH, PHYSICAL HEALTH, ABUSE, ASSAULT, FOSTER CARE
Summary - Alastair Cope is the Head of Foster Wales. Foster Wales is the national network of 22 Welsh Local Authority fostering services. It is a non-profit organisation allowing young people to be fostered in Wales. Alastair talks about the up-coming changes in the fostering system throughout Wales and the changes that have already been done! This is a must-listen episode for any corporate parent, young person in the care and foster parent.
Homeless Stat - An estimated 20 percent of young adults who are in care become homeless the moment they're emancipated at the age of 18. LINK
Name - Alastair Cope
How We Met - Alastair and I are LinkedIn friends who both want to make change for the next gen of care experienced young people.
Awareness - Foster Care
Alastair's Socials
- Alastair Cope LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/alastair-cope-2a8a8013b/?originalSubdomain=uk
Tayler's Socials
- Insta Link - https://www.instagram.com/tay_does_life_podcast/
- Insta Handle - @tay_does_life_podcast
- LinkTree (All Links) - https://linktr.ee/taydoeslife
- 6% Documentary - https://youtu.be/WLiqHQ9wCDs?si=nnxfFDdwTpQqa0vM
Mental Health Support Numbers
- Samaritan Phone - 116 123 or Email jo@samaritans.org You can also call the Samaritans Welsh Language Line on 0808 164 0123 (7pm–11pm every day).
- National Suicide Prevention Helpline UK Phone - 0800 689 5652 (6pm to midnight every day).
- Nightline. If you're a student, you can look on the Nightline website to see if your university or college offers a night-time listening service. Nightline phone operators are all students too.
- MORE LINKS HERE