Derek Clark is a Former Foster youth

Derek Clark is a Former Foster youth, Inspirational Speaker and the Author of "Tru Lockhart" and the "I Will Never Give Up" book series.
 
To learn more, visit his sites
www.IWillNeverGiveUp.com
www.NeverLimitYourLife.com
www.GoodnightSoldier.com

Derek's maxim is to make no excuses and become what you want to become. Attend one of his events, and not only will you be inspired by the words he speaks, but the music he both writes and performs.  It is a concert meant to embolden, enliven, and invigorate.

Derek stands 6 foot, 5 inches and has a voice resonating with a singular passion due to a life of coping with adversity and overcoming hardship. Stemming from his childhood experience of parental abandonment, and his troubled youth navigating the pitfalls of the foster care system, his years have been colored by extremes of humility, humiliation, aggression, emotional distress and overwhelming anxiety. At five years old his mother and stepfather turned him over to the county social services, and he has never known his real father. As a foster child, he was disturbed and erratic. Having suffered unthinkable child abuse, he was prone to severe distress and crippling depression. He has been
“labeled and misdiagnosed” in almost every psychological evaluation in existence, by psychiatrists who might better have sympathized with him. And yet, the dire circumstances of his life have never been obstacles to him succeeding at those endeavors which he has aspired to.