Travon Steadman

Travon works with Drive Forward Foundation, a London-based charity that supports care-experienced young people into employment, training and education. He uses his own experience of the care system to contribute to change for others.

Care System Young People

Travon Steadman works with Drive Forward Foundation, a London-based charity that supports care-experienced young people into employment, training and education. Before joining the team, he was a “service-user” and is a committed Ambassador and member of the charity’s Policy Forum. He is a strong believer in the power of lived experience to drive change and progress; highlighting the struggles young people face under government protection. His own journey has made him so much more aware of the struggle and pain of others, but also of how society looks at care-experienced people. A word that’s often used in conjunction with the care-experienced is “resilience”. But Travon refuses to accept this term, as he believes that it adds to the many misconceptions attached to the tag “care experienced”. He recently participated in a BBC3 production “Things Not to Say ”on the topic of homelessness.