Fostering: Resilience - Care to Strength

🎬 Film Screening: Belonging

🌟 Fostering and Children in care💬 Live Discussion and Special Guests

Join us for an inspiring online event featuring the award-winning short foster care film Be-Longing, followed by a live Q&A with its director, Mike McKenzie, and a special talk with Ann Campbell, talking about Resilience. Resilience is the power of becoming more than your circumstances.

🎬 Film Screening: Be-Longing
Experience Be-Longing, the award-winning short film that powerfully portrays a child’s journey through trauma, trust and identity in foster care. Even if you’ve seen it before, this special screening invites deeper reflection and conversation.

🎯 What You’ll Gain

• Fresh perspectives on the real challenges children in care face, and how we can better support them
• Practical strategies to improve communication, trust and stability in care placements
• Shared learning from others across the fostering and care community
• Direct insight from those with lived experience of being in care

💬 Live Discussion and Special Guests

• Q&A with director Michael McKenzie
• Special guest: Ann Campbell
• An interactive discussion space to connect with carers, professionals and care-experienced individuals
  
  Join foster carers, care-experienced people, fostering agency staff, social workers, teachers and others involved in the care system for a meaningful online event that brings together insight, practical tools and lived experience - all aimed at improving outcomes for children in care.

• 🔑 Discussion Highlights

• Collaboration matters: building better partnerships across carers, agencies and professionals
• Bridging the gaps: tackling the impact of poor communication in the care system
• Solutions that work: real, actionable ideas you can use in your role
• Diverse voices: hearing a range of lived experiences from across the fostering community

🌟 With Special Guest - Ann Campbell

📌 Who should attend?

• Foster and adoptive parents
• Kinship carers
• Care-experienced individuals
• Fostering agency staff and managers
• Social workers, teachers and support workers
• Campaigners, policymakers, and anyone passionate about improving outcomes for children in care
• Filmmakers and creatives exploring care-related storytelling

💡 Why Join This Event?

This is more than just an online event, it’s a space for connection, understanding and positive change.

Come away with real insight, new tools and renewed motivation to make a difference in the lives of children in care.

📍 Event details

Date: Wednesday 28 January 2026

Time: 7:00 - 8:30 pm GMT

Location: Online (best viewed on desktop/laptop)

This session will be recorded.

🎟️ Reserve your spot today and be part of the conversation shaping better futures for young people in care.