Virtual Care Leavers Cafe’
The Virtual Care Leavers Cafe is a monthly global space where care leavers come together to connect, reflect, learn, and build community across borders.
A Space to Belong
Through the passing years, active forums and platforms have taken the lead in vocalizing the aspirations of care leavers globally. These spaces created a safe niche for care leavers to meet, share, and explore opportunities beyond borders.
With the culmination of the 1st International Care Leavers Convention in 2020, the vision of the Virtual Care Leavers Cafe began to take shape. Initiated in January 2021, the monthly online cafe was designed as a welcoming place where care leavers can exchange ideas, speak openly, and strengthen a sense of belonging beyond national boundaries.
The cafe is more than a recurring meeting. It is a living network of encouragement, mutual learning, and collective hope.
Monthly Cafe Rhythm
Why the Cafe Matters
- It creates a trusted environment where care leavers can speak openly and be heard.
- It encourages peer support across countries, cultures, and lived experiences.
- It helps participants share ideas, opportunities, and practical knowledge.
- It strengthens a sense of connection and shared identity across the global community.
Voices from the Cafe
One bird cannot make the whole spring, we need to create the movement together as a whole. The Care Leaver Cafe is a good example where young adults come to talk, and to share issues collectively.
Cafe sessions prove very helpful in all means, whether it be learning about the condition of care leavers around the globe or being excited to get connected to such a huge global audience. It gives a feeling of extended family.
The cafe sessions provide a platform wherein all care leavers can put forward their problems and get solutions from fellow care leaver peers.
In the world of stigmatization and non-acceptance, cafe sessions have proved to be a platform where care leavers are acknowledged with voice and opportunities. It gives me the courage to lift my voice and helped me get over my loneliness.
Cafe sessions have been a great platform for initiating different ideas, exchanging life experiences, and empowering and informing each other in all ways possible.
Explore the Cafe Archive
Browse previous cafe reports and revisit the conversations, themes, and reflections that have shaped this growing global community.