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What does home mean to you?
44,000 young Australians under the
age of 24 are homeless.
Young people represent 38% of the
overall homeless population. 1
There is probably somewhere you
think of as your home. Home might
be the building you live in. It might
be your family, or the people you feel
closest to. Perhaps it’s simply where
you sleep or where you store your
belongings. Somehow, it’s home
to you.
Like thousands of young people in
Australia today, the characters in
Follow Me Home are living without a
safe and stable place to call home.
But what does home mean to you?
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Activity
A Place to Call Home
1
Break into small groups and
brainstorm a list of things that
you associate with your home. For
example, these could be places,
people, objects or feelings. When all
groups have finished, compare each
list and see if there were any common
words. Discuss how these words
evoke a sense of home.
2
Back in your groups, make a second
list of things that cause you stress in
your life and the ways that you usually
manage that stress. Once again,
compare all groups’ lists and look for
common experiences.
3
Now imagine all the elements of
home that you identified in Step 1 are
unavailable to you. How much did you
rely on them to manage stress in your
life? As a class, discuss what you think
you might have to do differently if you
didn’t have a home or family support
you could depend on.
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Image
Photographer
Luke Stambouliah
Art Director
Justin Stambouliah
Talent
Jordan Dulieu
Jasper Lee—Lindsay
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1
Australian Bureau of Statistics