OUR STORY
Built From Necessity, Not Opportunity
I know what it feels like to grow up in care.
I know what it feels like to live with trauma that follows you long after the moment has passed.
I know what it feels like to have professionals make decisions about your life without taking the time to truly know you.
I know what it feels like to move through systems that were designed to protect you whilst still feeling unheard, misunderstood and alone.
I know what it feels like to face barriers simply because of where you have come from rather than who you are capable of becoming.
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Those experiences could have become my story. Instead, they became my purpose.
THE BEGINNING
How MTICBIAI Began
I did not start MTICBIAI from an office, with funding already secured or with a team behind me.
I started this organisation whilst I was living under a Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) order, receiving 3:1 support and living alone in an unregistered residential care home.
At the time, I was rebuilding my own life.
Like many care experienced young people, I was navigating trauma, trying to find stability and learning how to believe in myself whilst the world often expected very little from me.
Most people would have understood if my only goal had been to survive.
Instead, I decided to build something that could help thousands of other people do more than survive.
Because I knew that if the support I needed did not exist, I could not be the only person searching for it.
MTICBIAI was born from that belief.
OUR PURPOSE
More Than Survival
I founded this organisation because I refused to accept that surviving should be the best outcome people can hope for.
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Too many people spend their lives moving from placement to placement, crisis to crisis and service to service without ever being given the opportunity to truly heal, belong or thrive.
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I wanted to change that.
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Not by criticising systems from the outside.
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By helping to transform them from within.
The determination to keep going anyway.
The loneliness that can come from feeling like nobody truly understands.
The frustration of repeating your story to professional after professional.
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The uncertainty of navigating adulthood without the same support networks many people take for granted.
The fear of leaving care with nowhere to turn.
LIVED EXPERIENCE
Every Programme Is Built From Real Experience
Every programme we deliver has been shaped by real experience.
Those experiences taught me something that no qualification ever could.
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Lived Experience
Every service is built alongside people with lived experience.
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Built on Reality
Our work is not based on assumptions. It is built on reality.
Trauma-Informed
Every programme is trauma-informed and relationship-led.
OUR COMMITMENT
Built on Reality. Designed for Change.
That is why every MTICBIAI programme is trauma-informed, relationship-led and built alongside people with lived experience.
Because I have lived it.
And because thousands of people deserve better than simply surviving.
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They deserve the opportunity to thrive.