In the first episode of Season 2 of A Home and Healing for Every Child, our CEO Renee Leigh (Carter) sits down with Emily Hikaiti, a passionate advocate with lived experience in the foster care system. Emily shares her powerful story navigating placements, finding moments of belonging and what the word home has come to mean for her. Now a strong voice for change, Emily uses her experience to advocate for better support, greater understanding and long-term outcomes for children and young people in care. Together, she and Renee explore what needs to shift in the system to truly support healing and stability.
This is a conversation about resilience, representation and why listening to lived experience is key to building a better future for every child in government care.
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Show Credits:
Host: Renée Leigh (Carter)
Guest: Emily Hikaiti
Audio Producer: Fernanda Dedic
Sound Engineer: Grant Konemann
Executive Producer: Ashton Kobler & Emily Hikaiti
Adopt Change acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we have recorded and edited this podcast on, the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. We pay our respect to Elders past and present and end that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.
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