Mission

To be able to share Shane's personal story of overcoming the struggles in his life and show others that they too can recover from a traumatic childhood, find hope and build a future - Be their own success story!  Shane is hoping to raise the funds necessary to cover professional editing, book design and production, and a healthy marketing budget to make my book a success.

This pre-sale campaign is run through a crowdfunding company - Pozible. 

10% of the rewards will be donated to Oz Child to help further train future foster carers. As it is estimated that 200 children are currently waiting to be placed with carers each night.

"I truly believe my story that I am sharing will help provide hope and resilience to current youth in foster care, current foster carers & help in the recruitment of new foster carers. It will also help people struggling with mental illness, sexuality, grief/loss, and inspire my fellow LGBTIQ+ and the wider community". - Shane Bautista

Let's Stretch it out!

• If we meet or $2500 target before the campaign end date the book can be produced, printed and copies sent out to YOU!, But we want to do more! Once we hit the original target, we can then Stretch out to an extra 2500! This extra cash will help with marketing costs and promotional material.

Shane would really appreciate it if you could please SHARE this pre-sale campaign with your network of facebook or twitter peeps, so he can share his story and potentially help others!

Resilience: a story of survival synopsis

‘I started to cry and yell as I felt anxious and scared. I was only two years old when Craig came crashing out his bedroom holding a pillow. As Craig held the pillow over my face, I remember kicking and pulling at his arms, but he was too strong. I couldn't breathe. I could feel my panic increase, my heart beating faster. I thought I was going to die…'

From the age of two, Shane didn't have the normal upbringing, living a haphazard life with his mother to being handed around family members when his mother rejected him, Shane was an unwanted child. Becoming a ‘Ward of the State' at the age of eight, Shane was placed with his new foster family which, was only meant to be temporary.  Unlike most children who have moved around to different families, Shane was lucky. He lived with his foster family until he was a young adult.

Resilience is a story about survival, with the feeling of not belonging & disconnected from himself and the outside world. Shane share's childhood traumas, heartache, grief & loss, his struggles with depression, anxiety, self-harm, drug addiction, promiscuous behaviour, suicidal thoughts, and an unsuccessful suicide attempt.

Shane hopes that through this memoir, he can help others who have endured the trials and tribulations of becoming a Government Ward of the State in Foster Care. Shane also hopes this memoir will give insight to current foster parents, help recruit aspiring foster carers, increase mental health awareness, suicide prevention, drug and alcohol addiction, LGBTIQ+ and the wider community.

This powerful memoir is Shane's message of hope, recovery, and resilience. There is light at the end of the tunnel. If you have resilience you too can become your own success story. Shane is an advocate of recruiting new foster carers to care for the growing numbers of children awaiting safe, loving carers and families. Also, as a Mental Health Nurse, he is also working towards improving the stigma towards mental health illness and increasing suicide prevention.

About the Author - Shane Bautista

Shane Bautista was born on the 21st June 1978 at the Dandenong Hospital. Shane currently works as a Mental Health Registered Nurse with one of the largest mental health services in Victoria. He is currently working and studying full time to complete the postgraduate year placed in a Mental Health Community Team in Victoria. Shane is currently completing a two year Masters in Mental Health Nursing. Shane suffered early childhood trauma and was brought up as a ward of the state in the foster care system. From the age of 15 years, old Shane started to self-harm and began suicidal behaviours.  Living as a gay man and having lived experience with depression, suicidal behaviour, and an unsuccessful suicide attempt, Shane wanted to share his story with others in the hope that he can help others find hope and a future. 'Resilience: a story of survival' is Shane's first self-published Novel set to be released in June 2019.

Media

CLICK TO READ>>>Cranbourne Leader Article for Foster Care Week September 13th to 19th 2015 

Peter Strachan, Cranbourne Leader, August 24, 2015, 1:47 pm
Shane with foster mum Joan Graham for a news article for 'Foster Care Week' 2015 . Joan Grahm has fostered over 300 children since the mid-1960s

CLICK FOR MORE>>>Oz Child Foster Care Agency

This Video is an interview Shane did for Oz Child his former foster care agency that case managed Shane whilst he was in foster care. Shane is an ambassador for Oz Child.

The Team

• Australian owned trusted self-publishing house
• Book cover design and print production
• eBook production
• Typesetting
• Print & Delivery
• Access to distribution channels to thousands of bookshops worldwide
• Initial Marketing Strategy & Promote

Click Here>Greenhill Self Publishing

• Official Book Launch in Melbourne
• National & International Book Tour 
• Marketing, Promotion & Publicity
• Design of promotional material 
• Social Marketing

Click Here>Little Rocket 

Click Here>Belinda Raposo - Editor

Resilience: a memoir of survival editor  Belinda Raposo: Writer by night and ukulele playing early childhood professional by day, and co-creator of CO_The Creative Couples Project. She has been shortlisted for her fiction writing and featured in The Victorian Writer magazine. She has exhibited with Cecile Knight as part of collaborative duo Raposo Knight  Their poetry-video-installation work Soapbox has shown in Lismore and Sydney.

Click Here>Paul Laurance Burnett

Book Cover Photography & Videographer

Paul Burnett is the creative talent behind the book cover photography and filming and editing my promotional videos. Paul splits his time between Australia, Sweden, and Russia. 

The cost to produce, a print, ship, and market the book

The Initial Budget $2,000

$1600 -Book design and typesetting costs ready for the digital printing press

$400 -Professional editing

Who Shane Supports?

Oz Child was Shane's foster care agency that case managed him whilst he was under the 

'Ward of the State' Government Care. Fostering Connections links people interested in becoming carers with agencies in their catchment areas.

As Shane has lived experience with mental illness (Depression & Anxiety), suicidal thoughts and losing his partner to suicide, he is a big supporter of Beyond Blue, especially in male suicide prevention and R U OK?

Project Risks

• Pozible campaigns are 'All or Nothing' so if we don't meet the target of $2000 then the project won't go ahead (for now). Please don't let that happen! (You will not be charged if the target is not reached).