# Transcript

CALLIE
Hi, everyone. My name's Callie. I'm 18 years of age. And today, I'm going to be talking about Mind of My Own. I discovered Mind of My Own a few years ago. And I mainly used it back last year when my foster placement broke down. My social worker was seeing me in placement, so it was very difficult to tell her about my problems within placement, purely because carers could hear what was going on.
When I discovered Mind of My Own, I told my social worker via the app I wasn't happy. And this resulted in me meeting with her outside placement, which now I'm in a happy placement now here. And I couldn't be more over the moon. It's amazing.
Second of all, it's probably one the easiest ways to communicate with my social worker for me. Sometimes it's difficult trying to get a hold of your worker because they've got about 10 hundred million things to do at once. So Mind of My Own, like it pops up on their dashboard as email. And it's so clear. So for them, as a worker, I know that they know that their young person's trying to contact them.
And even as an app, it takes a face-to-face awkwardness away purely because I know when you're talking about problems, sometimes it's really even to talk about things you don't even want to talk about to a worker. So even if you've done the Mind of My Own statement, it notifies your worker. And you're not seeing them face-to-face. You can do it in your own time. It's purely down to the young person. And it probably is better for the worker as well because they know what's going on in your life.
What do I think about Mind of My Own? I think it's absolutely fantastic. It might not be for every young person, but if every young person does know about Mind of My Own, it could save another person's life, potentially. Without Mind of My Own, I don't know where I would be now. I can't thank the app enough.
It's amazing. It's easy. It's efficient. It's effective. It's brilliant. I can't thank it enough. So yeah, thank you.