Having a Hard Time With Your Child or Teenager? Try These 15 Powerful Phrases to Connect With Them.

By Derek Clark Does your child really know that they are loved by you? Everyday, children are killing themselves and many parents are ignoring the signs until it is too late. A 15 year old girl in foster care committed

Motivational Speaker Derek Clark’s ABC Interview – You Can Be The Hero of Your Own Story

You can be the hero of your own story. I spent 13 years of my childhood in foster care and overcoming great adversity. I wrote “I Wanna Be A Kid” when I was thirty years old. My wife and I

Does Your Child Know That You Love Them? 15 Phrases That Parents Should Say To Their Children.

Does your child really know that they are loved by you? Every day, children are killing themselves and many parents are ignoring the signs until it is too late. A 15 year old girl in foster care committed suicide last

Motivational Speaker Derek Clark’s New Video – Drugs Destroy Families! Rapping Dad and Kids

Derek Clark, an inspiring motivational speaker and the rapping dad in the viral video hit is back again! Derek and his kids bring a new message about how drugs destroy families. Derek knows first hand what destroys families. His dad was

Using Negative Labels on Grieving Children and Then Drugging Them is Wrong! Disable The Labels.

How can a grieving child grow if it’s already assumed (by labels) that their growth is stunted? Many times, professionals are wrong in assessing a child and then use medication as a first choice to “fix” the child. That is

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

Foster Care Did Not Stop Me From Achieving Greatness! Stop Labeling.

FOSTER CARE LABELS & WORDS THAT KILL THE SPIRIT As you can see from my psychiatric, neurological and speech and language reports from the foster care system, a lot of effort was put into describing my personality and mental capacity.

CNN Headline News features Motivational Speaker Derek Clark as the foster care expert and child welfare speaker. Derek shares his opinion regarding the Josh Powell child killer/suicide case and if the system let those children down. Watch the video.

Motivational Speaker and Foster Care Expert Derek Clark gets invited by Jane Velez-Mitchell CNN Headline News HLN to share his professional opinion regarding how the system failed the children of child killer Josh Powell. This murder/suicide case was a tragedy.

Motivational Speaker Derek Clark Reveals His Secret Psychiatric Report From When He Was a 5 Year Old In Foster Care! They Mis-Diagnosed and Wrongly Labeled Me!

As a child, I, Derek Clark, was “labeled and misdiagnosed” in almost every psychological evaluation in existence. As a helpless child, I was nearly institutionalized due to severe erratic behavioral problems and violent tendencies. Having suffered brutal child abuse and

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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