13 Years in Foster Care and Yet, Derek Clark Still Thrived Inspite of His Adversities.

Posted by admin at 12:38 pm on January 20 2012
  Imagine then that one day some police officers and other adults show up to your home and separate you from your parents and your siblings. You are just a small child and you don’t really understand what is happening. All you know is that you are scared and have been taken from the only world you know. You may have been abused and neglected, but as a small child, you didn’t know it could...

Need An Engaging and Inspiring Keynote Speaker That Will Make Your Conference The Best One Yet?

Posted by admin at 1:20 pm on January 18 2012
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, Dept. of Mental Health,  Dept. of Education, Children’s Institute, Canadian Child Welfare...

“You Have To See My Very Personal and Crazy Psychiatric Report!”

Posted by admin at 1:15 pm on January 05 2012
I was thrown away, wrongly labeled and misdiagnosed.  One of The Secrets to my success was that I never stopped listening to the voice within— telling me—to Never Give Up! As a child I 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....

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

Posted by admin at 1:02 pm on September 30 2009
“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 left me for awhile plodding through life as an empty shell, a lost and helpless soul. I have breathed the air of the unloved, and suffered deep psychological and spiritual wounds...