As a Child in Foster Care, I Was Shocked at How Quickly The Professionals Labeled Me Based Upon My Behavior. I Was a Grieving Child That Had Suffered Brutal Trauma!

Don’t use labels to define a child. Children should not be predetermined to fail. Labels can follow a child for years to come and eventually define them. Words have great power that can reinforce positive or negative value. The labels

Would You Have Saved This Scared and Forgotten Child? We Need More Loving Foster Parents!

This is Derek Clark as a 5 year old. He shares riveting details about the second time he was abandoned into the foster care system. “Here I was, a child desperate for love and affection, a scared little boy who

Here is an excerpt from Derek Clark’s book “I Will Never Give Up”

“This is the true story of my life… A life in which abuse, loneliness, and dark nights of despair rattled the very bones of my body, drained the tears of my spirit, shattered my mind into a million fragments, and

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