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Annie Guest and the Specialist Reporting Team's Marty Smiley

Traumatised children find first stable home and support in innovative foster care program

Tee was kicked out of residential care on her 18th birthday. (ABC News: Harriet Tatham)

After entering the foster care system when she was just four months old, Tee spent her childhood feeling isolated, alone, and like "an outsider".

Most of her early years were spent moving between various foster parents, kinship placements, group homes and mental health care.

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