But she isn't sharing her past because she has a "tragic story" or examples of a system that let her down. Hers is a story of success and love.

The now 27-year-old has come full circle from that newborn baby girl in 1992 who was handed to North East foster carers Jan and Graeme Lindsay to a carer practitioner with the same agency who helped her receive that care.

"I am a carer practitioner at Upper Murray Family Care and have been for about 18 months," she said.

"I grew up in out of care with UMFC but for me I don't call it out-of-home care because it never felt like anything but home to me.

"I don't have any tragic stories of foster care, I don't have any big examples of a system that let me down, I just have a lifetime with amazing foster carers."

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The Lindsays were foster carers for more than 20 years and had more than 300 children through their home.

"I was placed in permanent care when I was six years old - but in our house we call it adoption and I don't call them my carers they are just my parents," Jasmine said.

"I recognise my story is one of the good ones, that my foster care experience was positive and I found my forever home."

Jasmine was sharing her story at the 40 year celebration of UMFC and said it was hard when thinking of her time in foster care to find moments that stood out.

"But there was a pattern of stability, consistency and above all else love," she said.

"At some point I must have been struggling with my self identity and my place in that home but I remember Jan drew a little heart on a piece of paper and in it she made me write down all the things I love - my family, my friends, the colour purple and chocolate.

"When we were done she said to me 'you can love all these things in your life and still have room for more - your family will always be your family you just have a second one now too'."

When she was 12 her birth mother died and her home became a base for where her Melbourne-based siblings could grieve together.

When she was 15, and again struggling with who she was, her parents helped her collect memories of her mother. "They found the people that knew her and took me to meet them to ask any questions," she said.

They wrote down their stories and collected her birth mother's favourite things.

"And with pride they shared stories about a woman they had grown to know and love through a shared interest - me," Jasmine said.

Jasmine said her parents always remind her that where she came from "isn't bad or wrong, it just is."