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11 Phrases You Should Never Say to a Child in Foster Care

I came across this article that hit the hammer on the head in regards to showing some compassion and being careful what you say to children in foster care. I spent 13 years of my early life in foster care. That

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Motivational Speaker Derek Clark Shares His Story of Surviving Child Abuse

If it wasn’t for foster care and great foster parents that never gave up, I might be dead or in prison. Foster care saved my life from the brutal child abuse. As an innocent child, I paid the price for

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From Foster Care To A Powerful and Inspiring Motivational Speaker-Derek Clark

From the outside, Derek Clark’s life looks perfect — a successful motivational speaker, foster care speaker and expert, foster care Ambassador, inspirational author

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Reserve Derek Clark For Your Next Training or Conference. Your Audience Will Be Educated and Inspired!

The story of motivational speaker Derek Clark’s life is truly amazing. Abandoned early in his childhood and plunged into the harsh and uncertain depths of the foster care system, he has spent his early life overcoming adversity. Even against seemingly

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Need An Engaging and Inspiring Motivational Speaker For Your Conference or Training? Derek Clark’s Life Story Will Inspire You As He Shares How He Overcame So Many Obstables As A Rejected Child That Was Placed In The Foster Care System.

Motivational Speaker and Trainer Derek Clark recently delivered inspiring keynotes for the World Foster Care/Child Welfare Conference (30 countries represented), Future Business Leaders of America and Phi Beta Lambda Conference, National Federal Bureau of Prisons Conference, National Foster Parent Conference,

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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

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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