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On this week's episode of the Voices in Action: Journeys in Care podcast, CREATE sits down with social work graduate, kinship carer and CREATE alum, Bella who shares her experiences with 'stigma'.

Bella discusses some of the damaging assumptions that people made about her as a person with a care experience, as well as the impacts that can have on a young person.

Bella shares her advice for other young people about snapping stigma, navigating the transition to independence and going to uni! 

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