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Motivational Speaker, Foster Care Speaker and Expert in Human Potential – Derek Clark is Featured on the Cover of Foster Focus Magazine

Foster care as a whole is a dreary, dismal situation. Kids being ripped from awful situations. Parents with questions of their kids’ location. Foster parents receiving tiny adolescent wrecking balls, who they calm back down into tiny people, only to

Motivational Speaker Derek Clark Just Delivered Inspiring Keynotes in Australia and Canada!

Motivational and inspirational speaker Derek Clark recently shared his powerful message of hope, resilience and redemption to thousands of child welfare workers, foster parents, social workers and others that are involved with foster care throughout Australia and Canada. The audience

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Killing Yourself is Not the Purpose of Your Life. Never Let a Weakness Destroy Your Greatness!

I am going to keep this real and raw. I have met many people all over this world that have tried or wanted to commit suicide in an effort to kill the pain. I wrote this to share a message

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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