An author and former foster child who specializes in youth issues has stressed the need for adults to be more involved with youth, stating that “every kid is one caring adult away from being a success story.”
Josh Shipp, a youth speaker who was abused and abandoned as a child, gave remarks on Friday morning before the Orange Conference held in Atlanta, Georgia.
Shipp recounted how his teenage mother abandoned him at birth and that from there he went from foster home to foster home.
Shipp described himself as being a master at “the art of getting kicked out of foster homes,” noting that “when kids do not talk out, they will act out.”
He spoke of misbehaving enough to get moved from family to family, to the point where he even kept a notebook that tracked how…
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