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This is a site about surviving violent trauma, the child welfare system, institutional care, and living with disabilities written by an institutional care survivor living with complex trauma and physical disability.

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About Robert Melanson

I have a degree in counselling psychology and 20+ years of client-in-care support experience. I am a residential care survivor, former child protection worker and disability rights activist living with complex trauma and physical disability.

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