Luke Rodgers is a 14-year-old boy with a difficult past involving domestic violence, multiple foster care placements, issues with drugs and alcohol, and criminal behavior. He is described as gentle, kind, loving, honest, and respectful despite these challenges. The document discusses the importance of dreams, love, hope, purpose, resilience, communication, relationships, acceptance, understanding, and believing in oneself and others to help bring out the best in young people and allow them to achieve their dreams.

1. Luke Rodgers
DREAMS, LOVE AND HOPE

2. Dreams
“You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope some day you'll join
us. And the world will live as one.”
― John Lennon

3. Love
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
― Mother Teresa

4. Hope
“Only in the darkness can you see the stars.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

5. Hope is sometimes all we have

6. A child with hope
Referral – Luke Rodgers age 14
Domestic violence
Moving between parents
14 Placement Moves
Persistent young offender
Drug and alcohol issues
Undergoing psychiatric assessments
Stolen previous foster carers car
Runaway
High risk
*specialist placement needed*

7. Personal Qualities?
Gentle
Kind
Loving
Honest
Respectful
‘’We will never see the best in people, when we only expect the worse’’

8. How can we bring the best out in young people?
Dreams Love Hope
‘’If we keep children the heart of everything we do, we allow children to put their
heart in to everything they do’’

9. Helping young people believe
Purpose
Resilience
Communication
Relationships
Acceptance
Understanding
‘’Supplying young people with what they really need is not surrounded by rules,
regulations and democracy, its surrounded by blood, bones and soul’’

10. We can all change
We need to believe in ourselves, believe in our
‘’Its not does not take one person toand abilities to
It about damage prevention, raise a child,
children, use or natural intuition its about damage
limitation. Youngfamily, aIf we dream, if wethey will mess
careIt takes a people will makesafety, stability
for our children. place or stakes, love and
upif we they will have feeling of warmth and love
and a consistent regrets, only by learning from
and hope, we will succeed. We cannot promise
these experiences will we becomeTogether are,can we
children they people with in it. they wantwe be, letting
from the will become who who we to by
youngmake a change, together we can show our as well as
people know they will be OK in the ‘end’ next
cannot promise children the will achieve
generationbelieving this from the bottom
genuinely that they can live their dreams.
everything they want, but we can promise if we
help themour hearts we they succeed. ‘’ better
of discover who will are its far
than anything they can imagine.
I am who I am because of the people that
made me

11. Dream, Love and Hope
‘’The ability to hope facilitates the fundamental will to
live’’ – Camila Batmangeligh
I hope, I love and I dream.
Thank you.