My name is Latriece Anderson, and I am a first year master’s level graduate student at Walden University majoring in clinical psychology. After 20 years of doubting myself, and feeling, as if I would not be able to endure, I made a decision to pursue my lifelong dream of becoming a clinical psychologist.  Presently, I work as a foster care, social work supervisor with Lutheran services in Carolinas. Working in the field of foster care should be extremely difficult for social workers are positions of witnessing children, being abused, sexually, verbally, and physically and so many children are blatantly neglected on a regular basis. I am a mother of five and I have two beautiful grandchildren. My second daughter was born with cerebral palsy. I was a teen mother I wish I gave birth to my first child, at the age of 17. I wasn't even finished high school whenever I became a mom.  When I gave birth to my second daughter, I was 19 years old. As a teen mom of two children, one with severe special-needs life and itself, we came extremely difficult for me. When my daughter was one years old, she began to have grand mal seizures. We later learned that she is also deaf and nonverbal. I remember thinking to myself how am 1, a mother of two who is barely educated, going to take care of children, who God blessed me with. I felt the need to be protected, and I wanted to feel safe. As a child, my father was terribly addicted to drugs/alcohol. As a young girl, l've seen so many things, and I always felt so exposed and unprotected. I met who became my husband at the age of 20. He was nine years older than me, and I think because of our age difference, I gravitated to him, and for the first time in my life, I finally felt safe. We were married, after dating less than a year, and I gave birth to three more beautiful children.  After being married, for two years, that's when the abuse started. It started with the verbal abuse and gradually expended to physical abuse. I felt as though I had nowhere to go. I was a woman with five children, one who had severe special-needs, and no money or resources. Today, I am an advocate for women who continue to suffer in silence. I am an advocate for children, who are neglected or abused as I was.  Today I am a strong, educated single mother, who has a large, beautiful family, all for me to love. I have overcome so many obstacles in my life, and I am determined, and will not stop until I obtain my doctorate degree in clinical psychology…something that I have always dreamed of. I am the true representation of what overcoming adversities looks like. I am strong, I am confident and I am healed. My goal is to pursue my masters degree in psychology and follow that degree with my doctorate. I would like to continue my passion and my work with women and children , and be an example that there is a way out and there is a safe place. To me, strength is knowledge, education, life experiences, and overcoming adversity’s.  I am a firm believer that everyone of us has a purpose and has a reason. No matter how hard it gets, no matter how tired I become, and no matter how many times I want to give up…. I never will because I am a winner. Thank you for your time and consideration

My name is Latriece Anderson, and I am a first year master’s level graduate student at Walden University majoring in clinical psychology. After 20 years of doubting myself, and feeling, as if I would not be able to endure, I made a decision to pursue my lifelong dream of becoming a clinical psychologist.  Presently, I work as a foster care, social work supervisor with Lutheran services in Carolinas. Working in the field of foster care should be extremely difficult for social workers are positions of witnessing children, being abused, sexually, verbally, and physically and so many children are blatantly neglected on a regular basis. I am a mother of five and I have two beautiful grandchildren. My second daughter was born with cerebral palsy. I was a teen mother I wish I gave birth to my first child, at the age of 17. I wasn't even finished high school whenever I became a mom.  When I gave birth to my second daughter, I was 19 years old. As a teen mom of two children, one with severe special-needs life and itself, we came extremely difficult for me. When my daughter was one years old, she began to have grand mal seizures. We later learned that she is also deaf and nonverbal. I remember thinking to myself how am 1, a mother of two who is barely educated, going to take care of children, who God blessed me with. I felt the need to be protected, and I wanted to feel safe. As a child, my father was terribly addicted to drugs/alcohol. As a young girl, l've seen so many things, and I always felt so exposed and unprotected. I met who became my husband at the age of 20. He was nine years older than me, and I think because of our age difference, I gravitated to him, and for the first time in my life, I finally felt safe. We were married, after dating less than a year, and I gave birth to three more beautiful children.  After being married, for two years, that's when the abuse started. It started with the verbal abuse and gradually expended to physical abuse. I felt as though I had nowhere to go. I was a woman with five children, one who had severe special-needs, and no money or resources. Today, I am an advocate for women who continue to suffer in silence. I am an advocate for children, who are neglected or abused as I was.  Today I am a strong, educated single mother, who has a large, beautiful family, all for me to love. I have overcome so many obstacles in my life, and I am determined, and will not stop until I obtain my doctorate degree in clinical psychology…something that I have always dreamed of. I am the true representation of what overcoming adversities looks like. I am strong, I am confident and I am healed. My goal is to pursue my masters degree in psychology and follow that degree with my doctorate. I would like to continue my passion and my work with women and children , and be an example that there is a way out and there is a safe place. To me, strength is knowledge, education, life experiences, and overcoming adversity’s.  I am a firm believer that everyone of us has a purpose and has a reason. No matter how hard it gets, no matter how tired I become, and no matter how many times I want to give up…. I never will because I am a winner. Thank you for your time and consideration

My name is Latriece Anderson, and I am a first year master’s level graduate student at Walden University majoring in clinical psychology. After 20 years of doubting myself, and feeling, as if I would not be able to endure, I made a decision to pursue my lifelong dream of becoming a clinical psychologist.  Presently, I work as a foster care, social work supervisor with Lutheran services in Carolinas. Working in the field of foster care should be extremely difficult for social workers are positions of witnessing children, being abused, sexually, verbally, and physically and so many children are blatantly neglected on a regular basis. I am a mother of five and I have two beautiful grandchildren. My second daughter was born with cerebral palsy. I was a teen mother I wish I gave birth to my first child, at the age of 17. I wasn't even finished high school whenever I became a mom.  When I gave birth to my second daughter, I was 19 years old. As a teen mom of two children, one with severe special-needs life and itself, we came extremely difficult for me. When my daughter was one years old, she began to have grand mal seizures. We later learned that she is also deaf and nonverbal. I remember thinking to myself how am 1, a mother of two who is barely educated, going to take care of children, who God blessed me with. I felt the need to be protected, and I wanted to feel safe. As a child, my father was terribly addicted to drugs/alcohol. As a young girl, l've seen so many things, and I always felt so exposed and unprotected. I met who became my husband at the age of 20. He was nine years older than me, and I think because of our age difference, I gravitated to him, and for the first time in my life, I finally felt safe. We were married, after dating less than a year, and I gave birth to three more beautiful children.  After being married, for two years, that's when the abuse started. It started with the verbal abuse and gradually expended to physical abuse. I felt as though I had nowhere to go. I was a woman with five children, one who had severe special-needs, and no money or resources. Today, I am an advocate for women who continue to suffer in silence. I am an advocate for children, who are neglected or abused as I was.  Today I am a strong, educated single mother, who has a large, beautiful family, all for me to love. I have overcome so many obstacles in my life, and I am determined, and will not stop until I obtain my doctorate degree in clinical psychology…something that I have always dreamed of. I am the true representation of what overcoming adversities looks like. I am strong, I am confident and I am healed. My goal is to pursue my masters degree in psychology and follow that degree with my doctorate. I would like to continue my passion and my work with women and children , and be an example that there is a way out and there is a safe place. To me, strength is knowledge, education, life experiences, and overcoming adversity’s.  I am a firm believer that everyone of us has a purpose and has a reason. No matter how hard it gets, no matter how tired I become, and no matter how many times I want to give up…. I never will because I am a winner. Thank you for your time and consideration

My name is Latriece Anderson, and I am a first year master’s level graduate student at Walden University majoring in clinical psychology. After 20 years of doubting myself, and feeling, as if I would not be able to endure, I made a decision to pursue my lifelong dream of becoming a clinical psychologist.  Presently, I work as a foster care, social work supervisor with Lutheran services in Carolinas. Working in the field of foster care should be extremely difficult for social workers are positions of witnessing children, being abused, sexually, verbally, and physically and so many children are blatantly neglected on a regular basis. I am a mother of five and I have two beautiful grandchildren. My second daughter was born with cerebral palsy. I was a teen mother I wish I gave birth to my first child, at the age of 17. I wasn't even finished high school whenever I became a mom.  When I gave birth to my second daughter, I was 19 years old. As a teen mom of two children, one with severe special-needs life and itself, we came extremely difficult for me. When my daughter was one years old, she began to have grand mal seizures. We later learned that she is also deaf and nonverbal. I remember thinking to myself how am 1, a mother of two who is barely educated, going to take care of children, who God blessed me with. I felt the need to be protected, and I wanted to feel safe. As a child, my father was terribly addicted to drugs/alcohol. As a young girl, l've seen so many things, and I always felt so exposed and unprotected. I met who became my husband at the age of 20. He was nine years older than me, and I think because of our age difference, I gravitated to him, and for the first time in my life, I finally felt safe. We were married, after dating less than a year, and I gave birth to three more beautiful children.  After being married, for two years, that's when the abuse started. It started with the verbal abuse and gradually expended to physical abuse. I felt as though I had nowhere to go. I was a woman with five children, one who had severe special-needs, and no money or resources. Today, I am an advocate for women who continue to suffer in silence. I am an advocate for children, who are neglected or abused as I was.  Today I am a strong, educated single mother, who has a large, beautiful family, all for me to love. I have overcome so many obstacles in my life, and I am determined, and will not stop until I obtain my doctorate degree in clinical psychology…something that I have always dreamed of. I am the true representation of what overcoming adversities looks like. I am strong, I am confident and I am healed. My goal is to pursue my masters degree in psychology and follow that degree with my doctorate. I would like to continue my passion and my work with women and children , and be an example that there is a way out and there is a safe place. To me, strength is knowledge, education, life experiences, and overcoming adversity’s.  I am a firm believer that everyone of us has a purpose and has a reason. No matter how hard it gets, no matter how tired I become, and no matter how many times I want to give up…. I never will because I am a winner. Thank you for your time and consideration

My name is Latriece Anderson, and I am a first year master’s level graduate student at Walden University majoring in clinical psychology. After 20 years of doubting myself, and feeling, as if I would not be able to endure, I made a decision to pursue my lifelong dream of becoming a clinical psychologist.  Presently, I work as a foster care, social work supervisor with Lutheran services in Carolinas. Working in the field of foster care should be extremely difficult for social workers are positions of witnessing children, being abused, sexually, verbally, and physically and so many children are blatantly neglected on a regular basis. I am a mother of five and I have two beautiful grandchildren. My second daughter was born with cerebral palsy. I was a teen mother I wish I gave birth to my first child, at the age of 17. I wasn't even finished high school whenever I became a mom.  When I gave birth to my second daughter, I was 19 years old. As a teen mom of two children, one with severe special-needs life and itself, we came extremely difficult for me. When my daughter was one years old, she began to have grand mal seizures. We later learned that she is also deaf and nonverbal. I remember thinking to myself how am 1, a mother of two who is barely educated, going to take care of children, who God blessed me with. I felt the need to be protected, and I wanted to feel safe. As a child, my father was terribly addicted to drugs/alcohol. As a young girl, l've seen so many things, and I always felt so exposed and unprotected. I met who became my husband at the age of 20. He was nine years older than me, and I think because of our age difference, I gravitated to him, and for the first time in my life, I finally felt safe. We were married, after dating less than a year, and I gave birth to three more beautiful children.  After being married, for two years, that's when the abuse started. It started with the verbal abuse and gradually expended to physical abuse. I felt as though I had nowhere to go. I was a woman with five children, one who had severe special-needs, and no money or resources. Today, I am an advocate for women who continue to suffer in silence. I am an advocate for children, who are neglected or abused as I was.  Today I am a strong, educated single mother, who has a large, beautiful family, all for me to love. I have overcome so many obstacles in my life, and I am determined, and will not stop until I obtain my doctorate degree in clinical psychology…something that I have always dreamed of. I am the true representation of what overcoming adversities looks like. I am strong, I am confident and I am healed. My goal is to pursue my masters degree in psychology and follow that degree with my doctorate. I would like to continue my passion and my work with women and children , and be an example that there is a way out and there is a safe place. To me, strength is knowledge, education, life experiences, and overcoming adversity’s.  I am a firm believer that everyone of us has a purpose and has a reason. No matter how hard it gets, no matter how tired I become, and no matter how many times I want to give up…. I never will because I am a winner. Thank you for your time and consideration

My name is Latriece Anderson, and I am a first year master’s level graduate student at Walden University majoring in clinical psychology. After 20 years of doubting myself, and feeling, as if I would not be able to endure, I made a decision to pursue my lifelong dream of becoming a clinical psychologist.  Presently, I work as a foster care, social work supervisor with Lutheran services in Carolinas. Working in the field of foster care should be extremely difficult for social workers are positions of witnessing children, being abused, sexually, verbally, and physically and so many children are blatantly neglected on a regular basis. I am a mother of five and I have two beautiful grandchildren. My second daughter was born with cerebral palsy. I was a teen mother I wish I gave birth to my first child, at the age of 17. I wasn't even finished high school whenever I became a mom.  When I gave birth to my second daughter, I was 19 years old. As a teen mom of two children, one with severe special-needs life and itself, we came extremely difficult for me. When my daughter was one years old, she began to have grand mal seizures. We later learned that she is also deaf and nonverbal. I remember thinking to myself how am 1, a mother of two who is barely educated, going to take care of children, who God blessed me with. I felt the need to be protected, and I wanted to feel safe. As a child, my father was terribly addicted to drugs/alcohol. As a young girl, l've seen so many things, and I always felt so exposed and unprotected. I met who became my husband at the age of 20. He was nine years older than me, and I think because of our age difference, I gravitated to him, and for the first time in my life, I finally felt safe. We were married, after dating less than a year, and I gave birth to three more beautiful children.  After being married, for two years, that's when the abuse started. It started with the verbal abuse and gradually expended to physical abuse. I felt as though I had nowhere to go. I was a woman with five children, one who had severe special-needs, and no money or resources. Today, I am an advocate for women who continue to suffer in silence. I am an advocate for children, who are neglected or abused as I was.  Today I am a strong, educated single mother, who has a large, beautiful family, all for me to love. I have overcome so many obstacles in my life, and I am determined, and will not stop until I obtain my doctorate degree in clinical psychology…something that I have always dreamed of. I am the true representation of what overcoming adversities looks like. I am strong, I am confident and I am healed. My goal is to pursue my masters degree in psychology and follow that degree with my doctorate. I would like to continue my passion and my work with women and children , and be an example that there is a way out and there is a safe place. To me, strength is knowledge, education, life experiences, and overcoming adversity’s.  I am a firm believer that everyone of us has a purpose and has a reason. No matter how hard it gets, no matter how tired I become, and no matter how many times I want to give up…. I never will because I am a winner. Thank you for your time and consideration

My name is Latriece Anderson, and I am a first year master’s level graduate student at Walden University majoring in clinical psychology. After 20 years of doubting myself, and feeling, as if I would not be able to endure, I made a decision to pursue my lifelong dream of becoming a clinical psychologist.  Presently, I work as a foster care, social work supervisor with Lutheran services in Carolinas. Working in the field of foster care should be extremely difficult for social workers are positions of witnessing children, being abused, sexually, verbally, and physically and so many children are blatantly neglected on a regular basis. I am a mother of five and I have two beautiful grandchildren. My second daughter was born with cerebral palsy. I was a teen mother I wish I gave birth to my first child, at the age of 17. I wasn't even finished high school whenever I became a mom.  When I gave birth to my second daughter, I was 19 years old. As a teen mom of two children, one with severe special-needs life and itself, we came extremely difficult for me. When my daughter was one years old, she began to have grand mal seizures. We later learned that she is also deaf and nonverbal. I remember thinking to myself how am 1, a mother of two who is barely educated, going to take care of children, who God blessed me with. I felt the need to be protected, and I wanted to feel safe. As a child, my father was terribly addicted to drugs/alcohol. As a young girl, l've seen so many things, and I always felt so exposed and unprotected. I met who became my husband at the age of 20. He was nine years older than me, and I think because of our age difference, I gravitated to him, and for the first time in my life, I finally felt safe. We were married, after dating less than a year, and I gave birth to three more beautiful children.  After being married, for two years, that's when the abuse started. It started with the verbal abuse and gradually expended to physical abuse. I felt as though I had nowhere to go. I was a woman with five children, one who had severe special-needs, and no money or resources. Today, I am an advocate for women who continue to suffer in silence. I am an advocate for children, who are neglected or abused as I was.  Today I am a strong, educated single mother, who has a large, beautiful family, all for me to love. I have overcome so many obstacles in my life, and I am determined, and will not stop until I obtain my doctorate degree in clinical psychology…something that I have always dreamed of. I am the true representation of what overcoming adversities looks like. I am strong, I am confident and I am healed. My goal is to pursue my masters degree in psychology and follow that degree with my doctorate. I would like to continue my passion and my work with women and children , and be an example that there is a way out and there is a safe place. To me, strength is knowledge, education, life experiences, and overcoming adversity’s.  I am a firm believer that everyone of us has a purpose and has a reason. No matter how hard it gets, no matter how tired I become, and no matter how many times I want to give up…. I never will because I am a winner. Thank you for your time and consideration

My name is Latriece Anderson, and I am a first year master’s level graduate student at Walden University majoring in clinical psychology. After 20 years of doubting myself, and feeling, as if I would not be able to endure, I made a decision to pursue my lifelong dream of becoming a clinical psychologist.  Presently, I work as a foster care, social work supervisor with Lutheran services in Carolinas. Working in the field of foster care should be extremely difficult for social workers are positions of witnessing children, being abused, sexually, verbally, and physically and so many children are blatantly neglected on a regular basis. I am a mother of five and I have two beautiful grandchildren. My second daughter was born with cerebral palsy. I was a teen mother I wish I gave birth to my first child, at the age of 17. I wasn't even finished high school whenever I became a mom.  Growing up as a child, my father was terribly addicted to drugs and alcohol. As a young girl, l've seen so many things, and I always felt so exposed and unprotected. I met who became my husband at the age of 20. After being married, for two years, that's when the abuse started. It started with the verbal abuse and gradually expended to physical abuse. Today, I am an advocate for women who continue to suffer in silence. I am an advocate for children, who are neglected or abused as I was.  I am a strong, educated single mother. I have overcome so many obstacles in my life, and will not stop until I obtain my doctorate degree in clinical psychology…something that I have always dreamed of.

My name is Latriece Anderson, and I am a first year master’s level graduate student at Walden University majoring in clinical psychology. After 20 years of doubting myself, and feeling, as if I would not be able to endure, I made a decision to pursue my lifelong dream of becoming a clinical psychologist.  Presently, I work as a foster care, social work supervisor with Lutheran services in Carolinas. Working in the field of foster care should be extremely difficult for social workers are positions of witnessing children, being abused, sexually, verbally, and physically and so many children are blatantly neglected on a regular basis. I am a mother of five and I have two beautiful grandchildren. My second daughter was born with cerebral palsy. I was a teen mother I wish I gave birth to my first child, at the age of 17. I wasn't even finished high school whenever I became a mom.  When I gave birth to my second daughter, I was 19 years old. As a teen mom of two children, one with severe special-needs life and itself, we came extremely difficult for me. When my daughter was one years old, she began to have grand mal seizures. We later learned that she is also deaf and nonverbal. I remember thinking to myself how am 1, a mother of two who is barely educated, going to take care of children, who God blessed me with. I felt the need to be protected, and I wanted to feel safe. As a child, my father was terribly addicted to drugs/alcohol. As a young girl, l've seen so many things, and I always felt so exposed and unprotected. I met who became my husband at the age of 20. He was nine years older than me, and I think because of our age difference, I gravitated to him, and for the first time in my life, I finally felt safe. We were married, after dating less than a year, and I gave birth to three more beautiful children.  After being married, for two years, that's when the abuse started. It started with the verbal abuse and gradually expended to physical abuse. I felt as though I had nowhere to go. I was a woman with five children, one who had severe special-needs, and no money or resources. Today, I am an advocate for women who continue to suffer in silence. I am an advocate for children, who are neglected or abused as I was.  Today I am a strong, educated single mother, who has a large, beautiful family, all for me to love. I have overcome so many obstacles in my life, and I am determined, and will not stop until I obtain my doctorate degree in clinical psychology…something that I have always dreamed of. I am the true representation of what overcoming adversities looks like. I am strong, I am confident and I am healed. My goal is to pursue my masters degree in psychology and follow that degree with my doctorate. I would like to continue my passion and my work with women and children , and be an example that there is a way out and there is a safe place. To me, strength is knowledge, education, life experiences, and overcoming adversity’s.  I am a firm believer that everyone of us has a purpose and has a reason. No matter how hard it gets, no matter how tired I become, and no matter how many times I want to give up…. I never will because I am a winner. Thank you for your time and consideration

My name is Latriece Anderson, and I am a first year master’s level graduate student at Walden University majoring in clinical psychology. After 20 years of doubting myself, and feeling, as if I would not be able to endure, I made a decision to pursue my lifelong dream of becoming a clinical psychologist.  Presently, I work as a foster care, social work supervisor with Lutheran services in Carolinas. Working in the field of foster care should be extremely difficult for social workers are positions of witnessing children, being abused, sexually, verbally, and physically and so many children are blatantly neglected on a regular basis. I am a mother of five and I have two beautiful grandchildren. My second daughter was born with cerebral palsy. I was a teen mother I wish I gave birth to my first child, at the age of 17. I wasn't even finished high school whenever I became a mom.  When I gave birth to my second daughter, I was 19 years old. As a teen mom of two children, one with severe special-needs life and itself, we came extremely difficult for me. When my daughter was one years old, she began to have grand mal seizures. We later learned that she is also deaf and nonverbal. I remember thinking to myself how am 1, a mother of two who is barely educated, going to take care of children, who God blessed me with. I felt the need to be protected, and I wanted to feel safe. As a child, my father was terribly addicted to drugs/alcohol. As a young girl, l've seen so many things, and I always felt so exposed and unprotected. I met who became my husband at the age of 20. He was nine years older than me, and I think because of our age difference, I gravitated to him, and for the first time in my life, I finally felt safe. We were married, after dating less than a year, and I gave birth to three more beautiful children.  After being married, for two years, that's when the abuse started. It started with the verbal abuse and gradually expended to physical abuse. I felt as though I had nowhere to go. I was a woman with five children, one who had severe special-needs, and no money or resources. Today, I am an advocate for women who continue to suffer in silence. I am an advocate for children, who are neglected or abused as I was.  Today I am a strong, educated single mother, who has a large, beautiful family, all for me to love. I have overcome so many obstacles in my life, and I am determined, and will not stop until I obtain my doctorate degree in clinical psychology…something that I have always dreamed of. I am the true representation of what overcoming adversities looks like. I am strong, I am confident and I am healed. My goal is to pursue my masters degree in psychology and follow that degree with my doctorate. I would like to continue my passion and my work with women and children , and be an example that there is a way out and there is a safe place. To me, strength is knowledge, education, life experiences, and overcoming adversity’s.  I am a firm believer that everyone of us has a purpose and has a reason. No matter how hard it gets, no matter how tired I become, and no matter how many times I want to give up…. I never will because I am a winner. Thank you for your time and consideration

My name is Latriece Anderson, and I am a first year master’s level graduate student at Walden University majoring in clinical psychology. After 20 years of doubting myself, and feeling, as if I would not be able to endure, I made a decision to pursue my lifelong dream of becoming a clinical psychologist.  Presently, I work as a foster care, social work supervisor with Lutheran services in Carolinas. Working in the field of foster care should be extremely difficult for social workers are positions of witnessing children, being abused, sexually, verbally, and physically and so many children are blatantly neglected on a regular basis. I am a mother of five and I have two beautiful grandchildren. My second daughter was born with cerebral palsy. I was a teen mother I wish I gave birth to my first child, at the age of 17. I wasn't even finished high school whenever I became a mom.  When I gave birth to my second daughter, I was 19 years old. As a teen mom of two children, one with severe special-needs life and itself, we came extremely difficult for me. When my daughter was one years old, she began to have grand mal seizures. We later learned that she is also deaf and nonverbal. I remember thinking to myself how am 1, a mother of two who is barely educated, going to take care of children, who God blessed me with. I felt the need to be protected, and I wanted to feel safe. As a child, my father was terribly addicted to drugs/alcohol. As a young girl, l've seen so many things, and I always felt so exposed and unprotected. I met who became my husband at the age of 20. He was nine years older than me, and I think because of our age difference, I gravitated to him, and for the first time in my life, I finally felt safe. We were married, after dating less than a year, and I gave birth to three more beautiful children.  After being married, for two years, that's when the abuse started. It started with the verbal abuse and gradually expended to physical abuse. I felt as though I had nowhere to go. I was a woman with five children, one who had severe special-needs, and no money or resources. Today, I am an advocate for women who continue to suffer in silence. I am an advocate for children, who are neglected or abused as I was.  Today I am a strong, educated single mother, who has a large, beautiful family, all for me to love. I have overcome so many obstacles in my life, and I am determined, and will not stop until I obtain my doctorate degree in clinical psychology…something that I have always dreamed of. I am the true representation of what overcoming adversities looks like. I am strong, I am confident and I am healed. My goal is to pursue my masters degree in psychology and follow that degree with my doctorate. I would like to continue my passion and my work with women and children , and be an example that there is a way out and there is a safe place. To me, strength is knowledge, education, life experiences, and overcoming adversity’s.  I am a firm believer that everyone of us has a purpose and has a reason. No matter how hard it gets, no matter how tired I become, and no matter how many times I want to give up…. I never will because I am a winner. Thank you for your time and consideration

My name is Latriece Anderson, and I am a first year master’s level graduate student at Walden University majoring in clinical psychology. After 20 years of doubting myself, and feeling, as if I would not be able to endure, I made a decision to pursue my lifelong dream of becoming a clinical psychologist.  Presently, I work as a foster care, social work supervisor with Lutheran services in Carolinas. Working in the field of foster care should be extremely difficult for social workers are positions of witnessing children, being abused, sexually, verbally, and physically and so many children are blatantly neglected on a regular basis. I am a mother of five and I have two beautiful grandchildren. My second daughter was born with cerebral palsy. I was a teen mother I wish I gave birth to my first child, at the age of 17. I wasn't even finished high school whenever I became a mom.  When I gave birth to my second daughter, I was 19 years old. As a teen mom of two children, one with severe special-needs life and itself, we came extremely difficult for me. When my daughter was one years old, she began to have grand mal seizures. We later learned that she is also deaf and nonverbal. I remember thinking to myself how am 1, a mother of two who is barely educated, going to take care of children, who God blessed me with. I felt the need to be protected, and I wanted to feel safe. As a child, my father was terribly addicted to drugs/alcohol. As a young girl, l've seen so many things, and I always felt so exposed and unprotected. I met who became my husband at the age of 20. He was nine years older than me, and I think because of our age difference, I gravitated to him, and for the first time in my life, I finally felt safe. We were married, after dating less than a year, and I gave birth to three more beautiful children.  After being married, for two years, that's when the abuse started. It started with the verbal abuse and gradually expended to physical abuse. I felt as though I had nowhere to go. I was a woman with five children, one who had severe special-needs, and no money or resources. Today, I am an advocate for women who continue to suffer in silence. I am an advocate for children, who are neglected or abused as I was.  Today I am a strong, educated single mother, who has a large, beautiful family, all for me to love. I have overcome so many obstacles in my life, and I am determined, and will not stop until I obtain my doctorate degree in clinical psychology…something that I have always dreamed of. I am the true representation of what overcoming adversities looks like. I am strong, I am confident and I am healed. My goal is to pursue my masters degree in psychology and follow that degree with my doctorate. I would like to continue my passion and my work with women and children , and be an example that there is a way out and there is a safe place. To me, strength is knowledge, education, life experiences, and overcoming adversity’s.  I am a firm believer that everyone of us has a purpose and has a reason. No matter how hard it gets, no matter how tired I become, and no matter how many times I want to give up…. I never will because I am a winner. Thank you for your time and consideration

My name is Latriece Anderson, and I am a first year master’s level graduate student at Walden University majoring in clinical psychology. After 20 years of doubting myself, and feeling, as if I would not be able to endure, I made a decision to pursue my lifelong dream of becoming a clinical psychologist.  Presently, I work as a foster care, social work supervisor with Lutheran services in Carolinas. Working in the field of foster care should be extremely difficult for social workers are positions of witnessing children, being abused, sexually, verbally, and physically and so many children are blatantly neglected on a regular basis. I am a mother of five and I have two beautiful grandchildren. My second daughter was born with cerebral palsy. I was a teen mother I wish I gave birth to my first child, at the age of 17. I wasn't even finished high school whenever I became a mom.  When I gave birth to my second daughter, I was 19 years old. As a teen mom of two children, one with severe special-needs life and itself, we came extremely difficult for me. When my daughter was one years old, she began to have grand mal seizures. We later learned that she is also deaf and nonverbal. I remember thinking to myself how am 1, a mother of two who is barely educated, going to take care of children, who God blessed me with. I felt the need to be protected, and I wanted to feel safe. As a child, my father was terribly addicted to drugs/alcohol. As a young girl, l've seen so many things, and I always felt so exposed and unprotected. I met who became my husband at the age of 20. He was nine years older than me, and I think because of our age difference, I gravitated to him, and for the first time in my life, I finally felt safe. We were married, after dating less than a year, and I gave birth to three more beautiful children.  After being married, for two years, that's when the abuse started. It started with the verbal abuse and gradually expended to physical abuse. I felt as though I had nowhere to go. I was a woman with five children, one who had severe special-needs, and no money or resources. Today, I am an advocate for women who continue to suffer in silence. I am an advocate for children, who are neglected or abused as I was.  Today I am a strong, educated single mother, who has a large, beautiful family, all for me to love. I have overcome so many obstacles in my life, and I am determined, and will not stop until I obtain my doctorate degree in clinical psychology…something that I have always dreamed of. I am the true representation of what overcoming adversities looks like. I am strong, I am confident and I am healed. My goal is to pursue my masters degree in psychology and follow that degree with my doctorate. I would like to continue my passion and my work with women and children , and be an example that there is a way out and there is a safe place. To me, strength is knowledge, education, life experiences, and overcoming adversity’s.  I am a firm believer that everyone of us has a purpose and has a reason. No matter how hard it gets, no matter how tired I become, and no matter how many times I want to give up…. I never will because I am a winner. Thank you for your time and consideration

My name is Latriece Anderson, and I am a first year master’s level graduate student at Walden University majoring in clinical psychology. After 20 years of doubting myself, and feeling, as if I would not be able to endure, I made a decision to pursue my lifelong dream of becoming a clinical psychologist.  Presently, I work as a foster care, social work supervisor with Lutheran services in Carolinas. Working in the field of foster care should be extremely difficult for social workers are positions of witnessing children, being abused, sexually, verbally, and physically and so many children are blatantly neglected on a regular basis. I am a mother of five and I have two beautiful grandchildren. My second daughter was born with cerebral palsy. I was a teen mother I wish I gave birth to my first child, at the age of 17. I wasn't even finished high school whenever I became a mom.  When I gave birth to my second daughter, I was 19 years old. As a teen mom of two children, one with severe special-needs life and itself, we came extremely difficult for me. When my daughter was one years old, she began to have grand mal seizures. We later learned that she is also deaf and nonverbal. I remember thinking to myself how am 1, a mother of two who is barely educated, going to take care of children, who God blessed me with. I felt the need to be protected, and I wanted to feel safe. As a child, my father was terribly addicted to drugs/alcohol. As a young girl, l've seen so many things, and I always felt so exposed and unprotected. I met who became my husband at the age of 20. He was nine years older than me, and I think because of our age difference, I gravitated to him, and for the first time in my life, I finally felt safe. We were married, after dating less than a year, and I gave birth to three more beautiful children.  After being married, for two years, that's when the abuse started. It started with the verbal abuse and gradually expended to physical abuse. I felt as though I had nowhere to go. I was a woman with five children, one who had severe special-needs, and no money or resources. Today, I am an advocate for women who continue to suffer in silence. I am an advocate for children, who are neglected or abused as I was.  Today I am a strong, educated single mother, who has a large, beautiful family, all for me to love. I have overcome so many obstacles in my life, and I am determined, and will not stop until I obtain my doctorate degree in clinical psychology…something that I have always dreamed of. I am the true representation of what overcoming adversities looks like. I am strong, I am confident and I am healed. My goal is to pursue my masters degree in psychology and follow that degree with my doctorate. I would like to continue my passion and my work with women and children , and be an example that there is a way out and there is a safe place. To me, strength is knowledge, education, life experiences, and overcoming adversity’s.  I am a firm believer that everyone of us has a purpose and has a reason. No matter how hard it gets, no matter how tired I become, and no matter how many times I want to give up…. I never will because I am a winner. Thank you for your time and consideration

My name is Latriece Anderson, and I am a first year master’s level graduate student at Walden University majoring in clinical psychology. After 20 years of doubting myself, and feeling, as if I would not be able to endure, I made a decision to pursue my lifelong dream of becoming a clinical psychologist.  Presently, I work as a foster care, social work supervisor with Lutheran services in Carolinas. Working in the field of foster care should be extremely difficult for social workers are positions of witnessing children, being abused, sexually, verbally, and physically and so many children are blatantly neglected on a regular basis. I am a mother of five and I have two beautiful grandchildren. My second daughter was born with cerebral palsy. I was a teen mother I wish I gave birth to my first child, at the age of 17. I wasn't even finished high school whenever I became a mom.  When I gave birth to my second daughter, I was 19 years old. As a teen mom of two children, one with severe special-needs life and itself, we came extremely difficult for me. When my daughter was one years old, she began to have grand mal seizures. We later learned that she is also deaf and nonverbal. I remember thinking to myself how am 1, a mother of two who is barely educated, going to take care of children, who God blessed me with. I felt the need to be protected, and I wanted to feel safe. As a child, my father was terribly addicted to drugs/alcohol. As a young girl, l've seen so many things, and I always felt so exposed and unprotected. I met who became my husband at the age of 20. He was nine years older than me, and I think because of our age difference, I gravitated to him, and for the first time in my life, I finally felt safe. We were married, after dating less than a year, and I gave birth to three more beautiful children.  After being married, for two years, that's when the abuse started. It started with the verbal abuse and gradually expended to physical abuse. I felt as though I had nowhere to go. I was a woman with five children, one who had severe special-needs, and no money or resources. Today, I am an advocate for women who continue to suffer in silence. I am an advocate for children, who are neglected or abused as I was.  Today I am a strong, educated single mother, who has a large, beautiful family, all for me to love. I have overcome so many obstacles in my life, and I am determined, and will not stop until I obtain my doctorate degree in clinical psychology…something that I have always dreamed of. I am the true representation of what overcoming adversities looks like. I am strong, I am confident and I am healed. My goal is to pursue my masters degree in psychology and follow that degree with my doctorate. I would like to continue my passion and my work with women and children , and be an example that there is a way out and there is a safe place. To me, strength is knowledge, education, life experiences, and overcoming adversity’s.  I am a firm believer that everyone of us has a purpose and has a reason. No matter how hard it gets, no matter how tired I become, and no matter how many times I want to give up…. I never will because I am a winner. Thank you for your time and consideration

My name is Latriece Anderson, and I am a first year master’s level graduate student at Walden University majoring in clinical psychology. After 20 years of doubting myself, and feeling, as if I would not be able to endure, I made a decision to pursue my lifelong dream of becoming a clinical psychologist.  Presently, I work as a foster care, social work supervisor with Lutheran services in Carolinas. Working in the field of foster care should be extremely difficult for social workers are positions of witnessing children, being abused, sexually, verbally, and physically and so many children are blatantly neglected on a regular basis. I am a mother of five and I have two beautiful grandchildren. My second daughter was born with cerebral palsy. I was a teen mother I wish I gave birth to my first child, at the age of 17. I wasn't even finished high school whenever I became a mom.  When I gave birth to my second daughter, I was 19 years old. As a teen mom of two children, one with severe special-needs life and itself, we came extremely difficult for me. When my daughter was one years old, she began to have grand mal seizures. We later learned that she is also deaf and nonverbal. I remember thinking to myself how am 1, a mother of two who is barely educated, going to take care of children, who God blessed me with. I felt the need to be protected, and I wanted to feel safe. As a child, my father was terribly addicted to drugs/alcohol. As a young girl, l've seen so many things, and I always felt so exposed and unprotected. I met who became my husband at the age of 20. He was nine years older than me, and I think because of our age difference, I gravitated to him, and for the first time in my life, I finally felt safe. We were married, after dating less than a year, and I gave birth to three more beautiful children.  After being married, for two years, that's when the abuse started. It started with the verbal abuse and gradually expended to physical abuse. I felt as though I had nowhere to go. I was a woman with five children, one who had severe special-needs, and no money or resources. Today, I am an advocate for women who continue to suffer in silence. I am an advocate for children, who are neglected or abused as I was.  Today I am a strong, educated single mother, who has a large, beautiful family, all for me to love. I have overcome so many obstacles in my life, and I am determined, and will not stop until I obtain my doctorate degree in clinical psychology…something that I have always dreamed of. I am the true representation of what overcoming adversities looks like. I am strong, I am confident and I am healed. My goal is to pursue my masters degree in psychology and follow that degree with my doctorate. I would like to continue my passion and my work with women and children , and be an example that there is a way out and there is a safe place. To me, strength is knowledge, education, life experiences, and overcoming adversity’s.  I am a firm believer that everyone of us has a purpose and has a reason. No matter how hard it gets, no matter how tired I become, and no matter how many times I want to give up…. I never will because I am a winner. Thank you for your time and consideration

My name is Latriece Anderson, and I am a first year master’s level graduate student at Walden University majoring in clinical psychology. After 20 years of doubting myself, and feeling, as if I would not be able to endure, I made a decision to pursue my lifelong dream of becoming a clinical psychologist.  Presently, I work as a foster care, social work supervisor with Lutheran services in Carolinas. Working in the field of foster care should be extremely difficult for social workers are positions of witnessing children, being abused, sexually, verbally, and physically and so many children are blatantly neglected on a regular basis. I am a mother of five and I have two beautiful grandchildren. My second daughter was born with cerebral palsy. I was a teen mother I wish I gave birth to my first child, at the age of 17. I wasn't even finished high school whenever I became a mom.  Growing up as a child, my father was terribly addicted to drugs and alcohol. As a young girl, l've seen so many things, and I always felt so exposed and unprotected. I met who became my husband at the age of 20. After being married, for two years, that's when the abuse started. It started with the verbal abuse and gradually expended to physical abuse. Today, I am an advocate for women who continue to suffer in silence. I am an advocate for children, who are neglected or abused as I was.  I am a strong, educated single mother. I have overcome so many obstacles in my life, and will not stop until I obtain my doctorate degree in clinical psychology…something that I have always dreamed of.

My name is Latriece Anderson, and I am a first year master’s level graduate student at Walden University majoring in clinical psychology. After 20 years of doubting myself, and feeling, as if I would not be able to endure, I made a decision to pursue my lifelong dream of becoming a clinical psychologist.  Presently, I work as a foster care, social work supervisor with Lutheran services in Carolinas. Working in the field of foster care should be extremely difficult for social workers are positions of witnessing children, being abused, sexually, verbally, and physically and so many children are blatantly neglected on a regular basis. I am a mother of five and I have two beautiful grandchildren. My second daughter was born with cerebral palsy. I was a teen mother I wish I gave birth to my first child, at the age of 17. I wasn't even finished high school whenever I became a mom.  When I gave birth to my second daughter, I was 19 years old. As a teen mom of two children, one with severe special-needs life and itself, we came extremely difficult for me. When my daughter was one years old, she began to have grand mal seizures. We later learned that she is also deaf and nonverbal. I remember thinking to myself how am 1, a mother of two who is barely educated, going to take care of children, who God blessed me with. I felt the need to be protected, and I wanted to feel safe. Growing up as a child, my father was terribly addicted to drugs and alcohol. As a young girl, l've seen so many things, and I always felt so exposed and unprotected. I met who became my husband at the age of 20. He was nine years older than me, and I think because of our age difference, I gravitated to him, and for the first time in my life, I finally felt safe. We were married, after dating less than a year, and I gave birth to three more beautiful children.  After being married, for two years, that's when the abuse started. It started with the verbal abuse and gradually expended to physical abuse. I felt as though I had nowhere to go. I was a woman with five children, one who had severe special-needs, and no money or resources. Today, I am an advocate for women who continue to suffer in silence. I am an advocate for children, who are neglected or abused as I was.  Today I am a strong, educated single mother, who has a large, beautiful family, all for me to love. I have overcome so many obstacles in my life, and I am determined, and will not stop until I obtain my doctorate degree in clinical psychology…something that I have always dreamed of. I am the true representation of what overcoming adversities looks like. I am strong, I am confident and I am healed. My goal is to pursue my masters degree in psychology and follow that degree with my doctorate. I would like to continue my passion and my work with women and children , and be an example that there is a way out and there is a safe place. To me, strength is knowledge, education, life experiences, and overcoming adversity’s.  I am a firm believer that everyone of us has a purpose and has a reason. No matter how hard it gets, no matter how tired I become, and no matter how many times I want to give up…. I never will because I am a winner.

My name is Latriece Anderson, and I am a first year master’s level graduate student at Walden University majoring in clinical psychology. After 20 years of doubting myself, and feeling, as if I would not be able to endure, I made a decision to pursue my lifelong dream of becoming a clinical psychologist.  Presently, I work as a foster care, social work supervisor with Lutheran services in Carolinas. Working in the field of foster care should be extremely difficult for social workers are positions of witnessing children, being abused, sexually, verbally, and physically and so many children are blatantly neglected on a regular basis. I am a mother of five and I have two beautiful grandchildren. My second daughter was born with cerebral palsy. I was a teen mother I wish I gave birth to my first child, at the age of 17. I wasn't even finished high school whenever I became a mom.  When I gave birth to my second daughter, I was 19 years old. As a teen mom of two children, one with severe special-needs life and itself, we came extremely difficult for me. When my daughter was one years old, she began to have grand mal seizures. We later learned that she is also deaf and nonverbal. I remember thinking to myself how am 1, a mother of two who is barely educated, going to take care of children, who God blessed me with. I felt the need to be protected, and I wanted to feel safe. Growing up as a child, my father was terribly addicted to drugs and alcohol. As a young girl, l've seen so many things, and I always felt so exposed and unprotected. I met who became my husband at the age of 20. He was nine years older than me, and I think because of our age difference, I gravitated to him, and for the first time in my life, I finally felt safe. We were married, after dating less than a year, and I gave birth to three more beautiful children.  After being married, for two years, that's when the abuse started. It started with the verbal abuse and gradually expended to physical abuse. I felt as though I had nowhere to go. I was a woman with five children, one who had severe special-needs, and no money or resources. Today, I am an advocate for women who continue to suffer in silence. I am an advocate for children, who are neglected or abused as I was.  Today I am a strong, educated single mother, who has a large, beautiful family, all for me to love. I have overcome so many obstacles in my life, and I am determined, and will not stop until I obtain my doctorate degree in clinical psychology…something that I have always dreamed of. I am the true representation of what overcoming adversities looks like. I am strong, I am confident and I am healed. My goal is to pursue my masters degree in psychology and follow that degree with my doctorate. I would like to continue my passion and my work with women and children , and be an example that there is a way out and there is a safe place. To me, strength is knowledge, education, life experiences, and overcoming adversity’s.  I am a firm believer that everyone of us has a purpose and has a reason. No matter how hard it gets, no matter how tired I become, and no matter how many times I want to give up…. I never will because I am a winner.

My name is Latriece Anderson, and I am a first year master’s level graduate student at Walden University majoring in clinical psychology. After 20 years of doubting myself, and feeling, as if I would not be able to endure, I made a decision to pursue my lifelong dream of becoming a clinical psychologist.  Presently, I work as a foster care, social work supervisor with Lutheran services in Carolinas. Working in the field of foster care should be extremely difficult for social workers are positions of witnessing children, being abused, sexually, verbally, and physically and so many children are blatantly neglected on a regular basis. I am a mother of five and I have two beautiful grandchildren. My second daughter was born with cerebral palsy. I was a teen mother I wish I gave birth to my first child, at the age of 17. I wasn't even finished high school whenever I became a mom.  When I gave birth to my second daughter, I was 19 years old. As a teen mom of two children, one with severe special-needs life and itself, we came extremely difficult for me. When my daughter was one years old, she began to have grand mal seizures. We later learned that she is also deaf and nonverbal. I remember thinking to myself how am 1, a mother of two who is barely educated, going to take care of children, who God blessed me with. I felt the need to be protected, and I wanted to feel safe. Growing up as a child, my father was terribly addicted to drugs and alcohol. As a young girl, l've seen so many things, and I always felt so exposed and unprotected. I met who became my husband at the age of 20. He was nine years older than me, and I think because of our age difference, I gravitated to him, and for the first time in my life, I finally felt safe. We were married, after dating less than a year, and I gave birth to three more beautiful children.  After being married, for two years, that's when the abuse started. It started with the verbal abuse and gradually expended to physical abuse. I felt as though I had nowhere to go. I was a woman with five children, one who had severe special-needs, and no money or resources. Today, I am an advocate for women who continue to suffer in silence. I am an advocate for children, who are neglected or abused as I was.  Today I am a strong, educated single mother, who has a large, beautiful family, all for me to love. I have overcome so many obstacles in my life, and I am determined, and will not stop until I obtain my doctorate degree in clinical psychology…something that I have always dreamed of. I am the true representation of what overcoming adversities looks like. I am strong, I am confident and I am healed. My goal is to pursue my masters degree in psychology and follow that degree with my doctorate. I would like to continue my passion and my work with women and children , and be an example that there is a way out and there is a safe place. To me, strength is knowledge, education, life experiences, and overcoming adversity’s.  I am a firm believer that everyone of us has a purpose and has a reason. No matter how hard it gets, no matter how tired I become, and no matter how many times I want to give up…. I never will because I am a winner.

My name is Latriece Anderson, and I am a first year master’s level graduate student at Walden University majoring in clinical psychology. After 20 years of doubting myself, and feeling, as if I would not be able to endure, I made a decision to pursue my lifelong dream of becoming a clinical psychologist.  Presently, I work as a foster care, social work supervisor with Lutheran services in Carolinas. Working in the field of foster care should be extremely difficult for social workers are positions of witnessing children, being abused, sexually, verbally, and physically and so many children are blatantly neglected on a regular basis. I am a mother of five and I have two beautiful grandchildren. My second daughter was born with cerebral palsy. I was a teen mother I wish I gave birth to my first child, at the age of 17. I wasn't even finished high school whenever I became a mom.  Growing up as a child, my father was terribly addicted to drugs and alcohol. As a young girl, l've seen so many things, and I always felt so exposed and unprotected. I met who became my husband at the age of 20. After being married, for two years, that's when the abuse started. It started with the verbal abuse and gradually expended to physical abuse. Today, I am an advocate for women who continue to suffer in silence. I am an advocate for children, who are neglected or abused as I was.  I am a strong, educated single mother. I have overcome so many obstacles in my life, and will not stop until I obtain my doctorate degree in clinical psychology…something that I have always dreamed of.

My name is Latriece Anderson, and I am a first year master’s level graduate student at Walden University majoring in clinical psychology. After 20 years of doubting myself, and feeling, as if I would not be able to endure, I made a decision to pursue my lifelong dream of becoming a clinical psychologist.  Presently, I work as a foster care, social work supervisor with Lutheran services in Carolinas. Working in the field of foster care should be extremely difficult for social workers are positions of witnessing children, being abused, sexually, verbally, and physically and so many children are blatantly neglected on a regular basis. I am a mother of five and I have two beautiful grandchildren. My second daughter was born with cerebral palsy. I was a teen mother I wish I gave birth to my first child, at the age of 17. I wasn't even finished high school whenever I became a mom.  When I gave birth to my second daughter, I was 19 years old. As a teen mom of two children, one with severe special-needs life and itself, we came extremely difficult for me. When my daughter was one years old, she began to have grand mal seizures. We later learned that she is also deaf and nonverbal. I remember thinking to myself how am 1, a mother of two who is barely educated, going to take care of children, who God blessed me with. I felt the need to be protected, and I wanted to feel safe. Growing up as a child, my father was terribly addicted to drugs and alcohol. As a young girl, l've seen so many things, and I always felt so exposed and unprotected. I met who became my husband at the age of 20. He was nine years older than me, and I think because of our age difference, I gravitated to him, and for the first time in my life, I finally felt safe. We were married, after dating less than a year, and I gave birth to three more beautiful children.  After being married, for two years, that's when the abuse started. It started with the verbal abuse and gradually expended to physical abuse. I felt as though I had nowhere to go. I was a woman with five children, one who had severe special-needs, and no money or resources. Today, I am an advocate for women who continue to suffer in silence. I am an advocate for children, who are neglected or abused as I was.  Today I am a strong, educated single mother, who has a large, beautiful family, all for me to love. I have overcome so many obstacles in my life, and I am determined, and will not stop until I obtain my doctorate degree in clinical psychology…something that I have always dreamed of. I am the true representation of what overcoming adversities looks like. I am strong, I am confident and I am healed. My goal is to pursue my masters degree in psychology and follow that degree with my doctorate. I would like to continue my passion and my work with women and children , and be an example that there is a way out and there is a safe place. To me, strength is knowledge, education, life experiences, and overcoming adversity’s.  I am a firm believer that everyone of us has a purpose and has a reason. No matter how hard it gets, no matter how tired I become, and no matter how many times I want to give up…. I never will because I am a winner.

My name is Latriece Anderson, and I am a first year master’s level graduate student at Walden University majoring in clinical psychology. After 20 years of doubting myself, and feeling, as if I would not be able to endure, I made a decision to pursue my lifelong dream of becoming a clinical psychologist.  Presently, I work as a foster care, social work supervisor with Lutheran services in Carolinas. Working in the field of foster care should be extremely difficult for social workers are positions of witnessing children, being abused, sexually, verbally, and physically and so many children are blatantly neglected on a regular basis. I am a mother of five and I have two beautiful grandchildren. My second daughter was born with cerebral palsy. I was a teen mother I wish I gave birth to my first child, at the age of 17. I wasn't even finished high school whenever I became a mom.  When I gave birth to my second daughter, I was 19 years old. As a teen mom of two children, one with severe special-needs life and itself, we came extremely difficult for me. When my daughter was one years old, she began to have grand mal seizures. We later learned that she is also deaf and nonverbal. I remember thinking to myself how am 1, a mother of two who is barely educated, going to take care of children, who God blessed me with. I felt the need to be protected, and I wanted to feel safe. Growing up as a child, my father was terribly addicted to drugs and alcohol. As a young girl, l've seen so many things, and I always felt so exposed and unprotected. I met who became my husband at the age of 20. He was nine years older than me, and I think because of our age difference, I gravitated to him, and for the first time in my life, I finally felt safe. We were married, after dating less than a year, and I gave birth to three more beautiful children.  After being married, for two years, that's when the abuse started. It started with the verbal abuse and gradually expended to physical abuse. I felt as though I had nowhere to go. I was a woman with five children, one who had severe special-needs, and no money or resources. Today, I am an advocate for women who continue to suffer in silence. I am an advocate for children, who are neglected or abused as I was.  Today I am a strong, educated single mother, who has a large, beautiful family, all for me to love. I have overcome so many obstacles in my life, and I am determined, and will not stop until I obtain my doctorate degree in clinical psychology…something that I have always dreamed of. I am the true representation of what overcoming adversities looks like. I am strong, I am confident and I am healed. My goal is to pursue my masters degree in psychology and follow that degree with my doctorate. I would like to continue my passion and my work with women and children , and be an example that there is a way out and there is a safe place. To me, strength is knowledge, education, life experiences, and overcoming adversity’s.  I am a firm believer that everyone of us has a purpose and has a reason. No matter how hard it gets, no matter how tired I become, and no matter how many times I want to give up…. I never will because I am a winner.

My name is Latriece Anderson, and I am a first year master’s level graduate student at Walden University majoring in clinical psychology. After 20 years of doubting myself, and feeling, as if I would not be able to endure, I made a decision to pursue my lifelong dream of becoming a clinical psychologist.  Presently, I work as a foster care, social work supervisor. I am a mother of five and I have two grandchildren. My second daughter was born with cerebral palsy. I was teen mother and gave birth to my first child 17. Growing up as a child, my father was terribly addicted to drugs and alcohol. As a young girl, l've seen so many things, and I always felt so exposed and unprotected. I met who became my husband at the age of 20. After being married, for two years is when the verbal and physical abuse started. Today, I am an advocate for women who continue to suffer in silence. I am a strong, educated single mother. I have overcome so many obstacles in my life, and will not stop until I obtain my doctorate degree in clinical psychology…something that I have always dreamed of.

My name is Latriece Anderson, and I am a first year master’s level graduate student at Walden University majoring in clinical psychology. After 20 years of doubting myself, and feeling, as if I would not be able to endure, I made a decision to pursue my lifelong dream of becoming a clinical psychologist.  Presently, I work as a foster care, social work supervisor with Lutheran services in Carolinas. Working in the field of foster care should be extremely difficult for social workers are positions of witnessing children, being abused, sexually, verbally, and physically and so many children are blatantly neglected on a regular basis. I am a mother of five and I have two beautiful grandchildren. My second daughter was born with cerebral palsy. I was a teen mother I wish I gave birth to my first child, at the age of 17. I wasn't even finished high school whenever I became a mom.  When I gave birth to my second daughter, I was 19 years old. As a teen mom of two children, one with severe special-needs life and itself, we came extremely difficult for me. When my daughter was one years old, she began to have grand mal seizures. We later learned that she is also deaf and nonverbal. I remember thinking to myself how am 1, a mother of two who is barely educated, going to take care of children, who God blessed me with. I felt the need to be protected, and I wanted to feel safe. Growing up as a child, my father was terribly addicted to drugs and alcohol. As a young girl, l've seen so many things, and I always felt so exposed and unprotected. I met who became my husband at the age of 20. He was nine years older than me, and I think because of our age difference, I gravitated to him, and for the first time in my life, I finally felt safe. We were married, after dating less than a year, and I gave birth to three more beautiful children.  After being married, for two years, that's when the abuse started. It started with the verbal abuse and gradually expended to physical abuse. I felt as though I had nowhere to go. I was a woman with five children, one who had severe special-needs, and no money or resources. Today, I am an advocate for women who continue to suffer in silence. I am an advocate for children, who are neglected or abused as I was.  Today I am a strong, educated single mother, who has a large, beautiful family, all for me to love. I have overcome so many obstacles in my life, and I am determined, and will not stop until I obtain my doctorate degree in clinical psychology…something that I have always dreamed of. I am the true representation of what overcoming adversities looks like. I am strong, I am confident and I am healed. My goal is to pursue my masters degree in psychology and follow that degree with my doctorate. I would like to continue my passion and my work with women and children , and be an example that there is a way out and there is a safe place. To me, strength is knowledge, education, life experiences, and overcoming adversity’s.  I am a firm believer that everyone of us has a purpose and has a reason. No matter how hard it gets, no matter how tired I become, and no matter how many times I want to give up…. I never will because I am a winner.

My name is Latriece Anderson, and I am a first year master’s level graduate student at Walden University majoring in clinical psychology. After 20 years of doubting myself, and feeling, as if I would not be able to endure, I made a decision to pursue my lifelong dream of becoming a clinical psychologist.  Presently, I work as a foster care, social work supervisor with Lutheran services in Carolinas. Working in the field of foster care should be extremely difficult for social workers are positions of witnessing children, being abused, sexually, verbally, and physically and so many children are blatantly neglected on a regular basis. I am a mother of five and I have two beautiful grandchildren. My second daughter was born with cerebral palsy. I was a teen mother I wish I gave birth to my first child, at the age of 17. I wasn't even finished high school whenever I became a mom.  When I gave birth to my second daughter, I was 19 years old. As a teen mom of two children, one with severe special-needs life and itself, we came extremely difficult for me. When my daughter was one years old, she began to have grand mal seizures. We later learned that she is also deaf and nonverbal. I remember thinking to myself how am 1, a mother of two who is barely educated, going to take care of children, who God blessed me with. I felt the need to be protected, and I wanted to feel safe. Growing up as a child, my father was terribly addicted to drugs and alcohol. As a young girl, l've seen so many things, and I always felt so exposed and unprotected. I met who became my husband at the age of 20. He was nine years older than me, and I think because of our age difference, I gravitated to him, and for the first time in my life, I finally felt safe. We were married, after dating less than a year, and I gave birth to three more beautiful children.  After being married, for two years, that's when the abuse started. It started with the verbal abuse and gradually expended to physical abuse. I felt as though I had nowhere to go. I was a woman with five children, one who had severe special-needs, and no money or resources. Today, I am an advocate for women who continue to suffer in silence. I am an advocate for children, who are neglected or abused as I was.  Today I am a strong, educated single mother, who has a large, beautiful family, all for me to love. I have overcome so many obstacles in my life, and I am determined, and will not stop until I obtain my doctorate degree in clinical psychology…something that I have always dreamed of. I am the true representation of what overcoming adversities looks like. I am strong, I am confident and I am healed. My goal is to pursue my masters degree in psychology and follow that degree with my doctorate. I would like to continue my passion and my work with women and children , and be an example that there is a way out and there is a safe place. To me, strength is knowledge, education, life experiences, and overcoming adversity’s.  I am a firm believer that everyone of us has a purpose and has a reason. No matter how hard it gets, no matter how tired I become, and no matter how many times I want to give up…. I never will because I am a winner.

My name is Latriece Anderson, and I am a first year master’s level graduate student at Walden University majoring in clinical psychology. After 20 years of doubting myself, and feeling, as if I would not be able to endure, I made a decision to pursue my lifelong dream of becoming a clinical psychologist.  Presently, I work as a foster care, social work supervisor with Lutheran services in Carolinas. Working in the field of foster care should be extremely difficult for social workers are positions of witnessing children, being abused, sexually, verbally, and physically and so many children are blatantly neglected on a regular basis. I am a mother of five and I have two beautiful grandchildren. My second daughter was born with cerebral palsy. I was a teen mother I wish I gave birth to my first child, at the age of 17. I wasn't even finished high school whenever I became a mom.  When I gave birth to my second daughter, I was 19 years old. As a teen mom of two children, one with severe special-needs life and itself, we came extremely difficult for me. When my daughter was one years old, she began to have grand mal seizures. We later learned that she is also deaf and nonverbal. I remember thinking to myself how am 1, a mother of two who is barely educated, going to take care of children, who God blessed me with. I felt the need to be protected, and I wanted to feel safe. Growing up as a child, my father was terribly addicted to drugs and alcohol. As a young girl, l've seen so many things, and I always felt so exposed and unprotected. I met who became my husband at the age of 20. He was nine years older than me, and I think because of our age difference, I gravitated to him, and for the first time in my life, I finally felt safe. We were married, after dating less than a year, and I gave birth to three more beautiful children.  After being married, for two years, that's when the abuse started. It started with the verbal abuse and gradually expended to physical abuse. I felt as though I had nowhere to go. I was a woman with five children, one who had severe special-needs, and no money or resources. Today, I am an advocate for women who continue to suffer in silence. I am an advocate for children, who are neglected or abused as I was.  Today I am a strong, educated single mother, who has a large, beautiful family, all for me to love. I have overcome so many obstacles in my life, and I am determined, and will not stop until I obtain my doctorate degree in clinical psychology…something that I have always dreamed of. I am the true representation of what overcoming adversities looks like. I am strong, I am confident and I am healed. My goal is to pursue my masters degree in psychology and follow that degree with my doctorate. I would like to continue my passion and my work with women and children , and be an example that there is a way out and there is a safe place. To me, strength is knowledge, education, life experiences, and overcoming adversity’s.  I am a firm believer that everyone of us has a purpose and has a reason. No matter how hard it gets, no matter how tired I become, and no matter how many times I want to give up…. I never will because I am a winner.

My name is Latriece Anderson, and I am a first year master’s level graduate student at Walden University majoring in clinical psychology. After 20 years of doubting myself, and feeling, as if I would not be able to endure, I made a decision to pursue my lifelong dream of becoming a clinical psychologist.  Presently, I work as a foster care, social work supervisor with Lutheran services in Carolinas. Working in the field of foster care should be extremely difficult for social workers are positions of witnessing children, being abused, sexually, verbally, and physically and so many children are blatantly neglected on a regular basis. I am a mother of five and I have two beautiful grandchildren. My second daughter was born with cerebral palsy. I was a teen mother I wish I gave birth to my first child, at the age of 17. I wasn't even finished high school whenever I became a mom.  When I gave birth to my second daughter, I was 19 years old. As a teen mom of two children, one with severe special-needs life and itself, we came extremely difficult for me. When my daughter was one years old, she began to have grand mal seizures. We later learned that she is also deaf and nonverbal. I remember thinking to myself how am 1, a mother of two who is barely educated, going to take care of children, who God blessed me with. I felt the need to be protected, and I wanted to feel safe. Growing up as a child, my father was terribly addicted to drugs and alcohol. As a young girl, l've seen so many things, and I always felt so exposed and unprotected. I met who became my husband at the age of 20. He was nine years older than me, and I think because of our age difference, I gravitated to him, and for the first time in my life, I finally felt safe. We were married, after dating less than a year, and I gave birth to three more beautiful children.  After being married, for two years, that's when the abuse started. It started with the verbal abuse and gradually expended to physical abuse. I felt as though I had nowhere to go. I was a woman with five children, one who had severe special-needs, and no money or resources. Today, I am an advocate for women who continue to suffer in silence. I am an advocate for children, who are neglected or abused as I was.  Today I am a strong, educated single mother, who has a large, beautiful family, all for me to love. I have overcome so many obstacles in my life, and I am determined, and will not stop until I obtain my doctorate degree in clinical psychology…something that I have always dreamed of. I am the true representation of what overcoming adversities looks like. I am strong, I am confident and I am healed. My goal is to pursue my masters degree in psychology and follow that degree with my doctorate. I would like to continue my passion and my work with women and children , and be an example that there is a way out and there is a safe place. To me, strength is knowledge, education, life experiences, and overcoming adversity’s.  I am a firm believer that everyone of us has a purpose and has a reason. No matter how hard it gets, no matter how tired I become, and no matter how many times I want to give up…. I never will because I am a winner.

My name is Latriece Anderson, and I am a first year master’s level graduate student at Walden University majoring in clinical psychology. After 20 years of doubting myself, and feeling, as if I would not be able to endure, I made a decision to pursue my lifelong dream of becoming a clinical psychologist.  Presently, I work as a foster care, social work supervisor with Lutheran services in Carolinas. Working in the field of foster care should be extremely difficult for social workers are positions of witnessing children, being abused, sexually, verbally, and physically and so many children are blatantly neglected on a regular basis. I am a mother of five and I have two beautiful grandchildren. My second daughter was born with cerebral palsy. I was a teen mother I wish I gave birth to my first child, at the age of 17. I wasn't even finished high school whenever I became a mom.  When I gave birth to my second daughter, I was 19 years old. As a teen mom of two children, one with severe special-needs life and itself, we came extremely difficult for me. When my daughter was one years old, she began to have grand mal seizures. We later learned that she is also deaf and nonverbal. I remember thinking to myself how am 1, a mother of two who is barely educated, going to take care of children, who God blessed me with. I felt the need to be protected, and I wanted to feel safe. Growing up as a child, my father was terribly addicted to drugs and alcohol. As a young girl, l've seen so many things, and I always felt so exposed and unprotected. I met who became my husband at the age of 20. He was nine years older than me, and I think because of our age difference, I gravitated to him, and for the first time in my life, I finally felt safe. We were married, after dating less than a year, and I gave birth to three more beautiful children.  After being married, for two years, that's when the abuse started. It started with the verbal abuse and gradually expended to physical abuse. I felt as though I had nowhere to go. I was a woman with five children, one who had severe special-needs, and no money or resources. Today, I am an advocate for women who continue to suffer in silence. I am an advocate for children, who are neglected or abused as I was.  Today I am a strong, educated single mother, who has a large, beautiful family, all for me to love. I have overcome so many obstacles in my life, and I am determined, and will not stop until I obtain my doctorate degree in clinical psychology…something that I have always dreamed of. I am the true representation of what overcoming adversities looks like. I am strong, I am confident and I am healed. My goal is to pursue my masters degree in psychology and follow that degree with my doctorate. I would like to continue my passion and my work with women and children , and be an example that there is a way out and there is a safe place. To me, strength is knowledge, education, life experiences, and overcoming adversity’s.  I am a firm believer that everyone of us has a purpose and has a reason. No matter how hard it gets, no matter how tired I become, and no matter how many times I want to give up…. I never will because I am a winner.

My name is Latriece Anderson, and I am a first year master’s level graduate student at Walden University majoring in clinical psychology. After 20 years of doubting myself, and feeling, as if I would not be able to endure, I made a decision to pursue my lifelong dream of becoming a clinical psychologist.  Presently, I work as a foster care, social work supervisor with Lutheran services in Carolinas. Working in the field of foster care should be extremely difficult for social workers are positions of witnessing children, being abused, sexually, verbally, and physically and so many children are blatantly neglected on a regular basis. I am a mother of five and I have two beautiful grandchildren. My second daughter was born with cerebral palsy. I was a teen mother I wish I gave birth to my first child, at the age of 17. I wasn't even finished high school whenever I became a mom.  When I gave birth to my second daughter, I was 19 years old. As a teen mom of two children, one with severe special-needs life and itself, we came extremely difficult for me. When my daughter was one years old, she began to have grand mal seizures. We later learned that she is also deaf and nonverbal. I remember thinking to myself how am 1, a mother of two who is barely educated, going to take care of children, who God blessed me with. I felt the need to be protected, and I wanted to feel safe. Growing up as a child, my father was terribly addicted to drugs and alcohol. As a young girl, l've seen so many things, and I always felt so exposed and unprotected. I met who became my husband at the age of 20. He was nine years older than me, and I think because of our age difference, I gravitated to him, and for the first time in my life, I finally felt safe. We were married, after dating less than a year, and I gave birth to three more beautiful children.  After being married, for two years, that's when the abuse started. It started with the verbal abuse and gradually expended to physical abuse. I felt as though I had nowhere to go. I was a woman with five children, one who had severe special-needs, and no money or resources. Today, I am an advocate for women who continue to suffer in silence. I am an advocate for children, who are neglected or abused as I was.  Today I am a strong, educated single mother, who has a large, beautiful family, all for me to love. I have overcome so many obstacles in my life, and I am determined, and will not stop until I obtain my doctorate degree in clinical psychology…something that I have always dreamed of. I am the true representation of what overcoming adversities looks like. I am strong, I am confident and I am healed. My goal is to pursue my masters degree in psychology and follow that degree with my doctorate. I would like to continue my passion and my work with women and children , and be an example that there is a way out and there is a safe place. To me, strength is knowledge, education, life experiences, and overcoming adversity’s.  I am a firm believer that everyone of us has a purpose and has a reason. No matter how hard it gets, no matter how tired I become, and no matter how many times I want to give up…. I never will because I am a winner.

My name is Latriece Anderson, and I am a first year master’s level graduate student at Walden University majoring in clinical psychology. After 20 years of doubting myself, and feeling, as if I would not be able to endure, I made a decision to pursue my lifelong dream of becoming a clinical psychologist.  Presently, I work as a foster care, social work supervisor with Lutheran services in Carolinas. Working in the field of foster care should be extremely difficult for social workers are positions of witnessing children, being abused, sexually, verbally, and physically and so many children are blatantly neglected on a regular basis. I am a mother of five and I have two beautiful grandchildren. My second daughter was born with cerebral palsy. I was a teen mother I wish I gave birth to my first child, at the age of 17. I wasn't even finished high school whenever I became a mom.  When I gave birth to my second daughter, I was 19 years old. As a teen mom of two children, one with severe special-needs life and itself, we came extremely difficult for me. When my daughter was one years old, she began to have grand mal seizures. We later learned that she is also deaf and nonverbal. I remember thinking to myself how am 1, a mother of two who is barely educated, going to take care of children, who God blessed me with. I felt the need to be protected, and I wanted to feel safe. Growing up as a child, my father was terribly addicted to drugs and alcohol. As a young girl, l've seen so many things, and I always felt so exposed and unprotected. I met who became my husband at the age of 20. He was nine years older than me, and I think because of our age difference, I gravitated to him, and for the first time in my life, I finally felt safe. We were married, after dating less than a year, and I gave birth to three more beautiful children.  After being married, for two years, that's when the abuse started. It started with the verbal abuse and gradually expended to physical abuse. I felt as though I had nowhere to go. I was a woman with five children, one who had severe special-needs, and no money or resources. Today, I am an advocate for women who continue to suffer in silence. I am an advocate for children, who are neglected or abused as I was.  Today I am a strong, educated single mother, who has a large, beautiful family, all for me to love. I have overcome so many obstacles in my life, and I am determined, and will not stop until I obtain my doctorate degree in clinical psychology…something that I have always dreamed of. I am the true representation of what overcoming adversities looks like. I am strong, I am confident and I am healed. My goal is to pursue my masters degree in psychology and follow that degree with my doctorate. I would like to continue my passion and my work with women and children , and be an example that there is a way out and there is a safe place. To me, strength is knowledge, education, life experiences, and overcoming adversity’s.  I am a firm believer that everyone of us has a purpose and has a reason. No matter how hard it gets, no matter how tired I become, and no matter how many times I want to give up…. I never will because I am a winner.

My name is Latriece Anderson, and I am a first year master’s level graduate student at Walden University majoring in clinical psychology. After 20 years of doubting myself, and feeling, as if I would not be able to endure, I made a decision to pursue my lifelong dream of becoming a clinical psychologist.  Presently, I work as a foster care, social work supervisor with Lutheran services in Carolinas. Working in the field of foster care should be extremely difficult for social workers are positions of witnessing children, being abused, sexually, verbally, and physically and so many children are blatantly neglected on a regular basis. I am a mother of five and I have two beautiful grandchildren. My second daughter was born with cerebral palsy. I was a teen mother I wish I gave birth to my first child, at the age of 17. I wasn't even finished high school whenever I became a mom.  When I gave birth to my second daughter, I was 19 years old. As a teen mom of two children, one with severe special-needs life and itself, we came extremely difficult for me. When my daughter was one years old, she began to have grand mal seizures. We later learned that she is also deaf and nonverbal. I remember thinking to myself how am 1, a mother of two who is barely educated, going to take care of children, who God blessed me with. I felt the need to be protected, and I wanted to feel safe. Growing up as a child, my father was terribly addicted to drugs and alcohol. As a young girl, l've seen so many things, and I always felt so exposed and unprotected. I met who became my husband at the age of 20. He was nine years older than me, and I think because of our age difference, I gravitated to him, and for the first time in my life, I finally felt safe. We were married, after dating less than a year, and I gave birth to three more beautiful children.  After being married, for two years, that's when the abuse started. It started with the verbal abuse and gradually expended to physical abuse. I felt as though I had nowhere to go. I was a woman with five children, one who had severe special-needs, and no money or resources. Today, I am an advocate for women who continue to suffer in silence. I am an advocate for children, who are neglected or abused as I was.  Today I am a strong, educated single mother, who has a large, beautiful family, all for me to love. I have overcome so many obstacles in my life, and I am determined, and will not stop until I obtain my doctorate degree in clinical psychology…something that I have always dreamed of. I am the true representation of what overcoming adversities looks like. I am strong, I am confident and I am healed. My goal is to pursue my masters degree in psychology and follow that degree with my doctorate. I would like to continue my passion and my work with women and children , and be an example that there is a way out and there is a safe place. To me, strength is knowledge, education, life experiences, and overcoming adversity’s.  I am a firm believer that everyone of us has a purpose and has a reason. No matter how hard it gets, no matter how tired I become, and no matter how many times I want to give up…. I never will because I am a winner.

My name is Latriece Anderson, and I am a first year master’s level graduate student at Walden University majoring in clinical psychology. After 20 years of doubting myself, and feeling, as if I would not be able to endure, I made a decision to pursue my lifelong dream of becoming a clinical psychologist.  Presently, I work as a foster care, social work supervisor with Lutheran services in Carolinas. Working in the field of foster care should be extremely difficult for social workers are positions of witnessing children, being abused, sexually, verbally, and physically and so many children are blatantly neglected on a regular basis. I am a mother of five and I have two beautiful grandchildren. My second daughter was born with cerebral palsy. I was a teen mother I wish I gave birth to my first child, at the age of 17. I wasn't even finished high school whenever I became a mom.  When I gave birth to my second daughter, I was 19 years old. As a teen mom of two children, one with severe special-needs life and itself, we came extremely difficult for me. When my daughter was one years old, she began to have grand mal seizures. We later learned that she is also deaf and nonverbal. I remember thinking to myself how am 1, a mother of two who is barely educated, going to take care of children, who God blessed me with. I felt the need to be protected, and I wanted to feel safe. Growing up as a child, my father was terribly addicted to drugs and alcohol. As a young girl, l've seen so many things, and I always felt so exposed and unprotected. I met who became my husband at the age of 20. He was nine years older than me, and I think because of our age difference, I gravitated to him, and for the first time in my life, I finally felt safe. We were married, after dating less than a year, and I gave birth to three more beautiful children.  After being married, for two years, that's when the abuse started. It started with the verbal abuse and gradually expended to physical abuse. I felt as though I had nowhere to go. I was a woman with five children, one who had severe special-needs, and no money or resources. Today, I am an advocate for women who continue to suffer in silence. I am an advocate for children, who are neglected or abused as I was.  Today I am a strong, educated single mother, who has a large, beautiful family, all for me to love. I have overcome so many obstacles in my life, and I am determined, and will not stop until I obtain my doctorate degree in clinical psychology…something that I have always dreamed of. I am the true representation of what overcoming adversities looks like. I am strong, I am confident and I am healed. My goal is to pursue my masters degree in psychology and follow that degree with my doctorate. I would like to continue my passion and my work with women and children , and be an example that there is a way out and there is a safe place. To me, strength is knowledge, education, life experiences, and overcoming adversity’s.  I am a firm believer that everyone of us has a purpose and has a reason. No matter how hard it gets, no matter how tired I become, and no matter how many times I want to give up…. I never will because I am a winner.

My name is Latriece Anderson, and I am a first year master’s level graduate student at Walden University majoring in clinical psychology. After 20 years of doubting myself, and feeling, as if I would not be able to endure, I made a decision to pursue my lifelong dream of becoming a clinical psychologist.  Presently, I work as a foster care, social work supervisor with Lutheran services in Carolinas. Working in the field of foster care should be extremely difficult for social workers are positions of witnessing children, being abused, sexually, verbally, and physically and so many children are blatantly neglected on a regular basis. I am a mother of five and I have two beautiful grandchildren. My second daughter was born with cerebral palsy. I was a teen mother I wish I gave birth to my first child, at the age of 17. I wasn't even finished high school whenever I became a mom.  When I gave birth to my second daughter, I was 19 years old. As a teen mom of two children, one with severe special-needs life and itself, we came extremely difficult for me. When my daughter was one years old, she began to have grand mal seizures. We later learned that she is also deaf and nonverbal. I remember thinking to myself how am 1, a mother of two who is barely educated, going to take care of children, who God blessed me with. I felt the need to be protected, and I wanted to feel safe. Growing up as a child, my father was terribly addicted to drugs and alcohol. As a young girl, l've seen so many things, and I always felt so exposed and unprotected. I met who became my husband at the age of 20. He was nine years older than me, and I think because of our age difference, I gravitated to him, and for the first time in my life, I finally felt safe. We were married, after dating less than a year, and I gave birth to three more beautiful children.  After being married, for two years, that's when the abuse started. It started with the verbal abuse and gradually expended to physical abuse. I felt as though I had nowhere to go. I was a woman with five children, one who had severe special-needs, and no money or resources. Today, I am an advocate for women who continue to suffer in silence. I am an advocate for children, who are neglected or abused as I was.  Today I am a strong, educated single mother, who has a large, beautiful family, all for me to love. I have overcome so many obstacles in my life, and I am determined, and will not stop until I obtain my doctorate degree in clinical psychology…something that I have always dreamed of. I am the true representation of what overcoming adversities looks like. I am strong, I am confident and I am healed. My goal is to pursue my masters degree in psychology and follow that degree with my doctorate. I would like to continue my passion and my work with women and children , and be an example that there is a way out and there is a safe place. To me, strength is knowledge, education, life experiences, and overcoming adversity’s.  I am a firm believer that everyone of us has a purpose and has a reason. No matter how hard it gets, no matter how tired I become, and no matter how many times I want to give up…. I never will because I am a winner.

My name is Latriece Anderson, and I am a first year master’s level graduate student at Walden University majoring in clinical psychology. After 20 years of doubting myself, and feeling, as if I would not be able to endure, I made a decision to pursue my lifelong dream of becoming a clinical psychologist.  Presently, I work as a foster care, social work supervisor with Lutheran services in Carolinas. Working in the field of foster care should be extremely difficult for social workers are positions of witnessing children, being abused, sexually, verbally, and physically and so many children are blatantly neglected on a regular basis. I am a mother of five and I have two beautiful grandchildren. My second daughter was born with cerebral palsy. I was a teen mother I wish I gave birth to my first child, at the age of 17. I wasn't even finished high school whenever I became a mom.  When I gave birth to my second daughter, I was 19 years old. As a teen mom of two children, one with severe special-needs life and itself, we came extremely difficult for me. When my daughter was one years old, she began to have grand mal seizures. We later learned that she is also deaf and nonverbal. I remember thinking to myself how am 1, a mother of two who is barely educated, going to take care of children, who God blessed me with. I felt the need to be protected, and I wanted to feel safe. Growing up as a child, my father was terribly addicted to drugs and alcohol. As a young girl, l've seen so many things, and I always felt so exposed and unprotected. I met who became my husband at the age of 20. He was nine years older than me, and I think because of our age difference, I gravitated to him, and for the first time in my life, I finally felt safe. We were married, after dating less than a year, and I gave birth to three more beautiful children.  After being married, for two years, that's when the abuse started. It started with the verbal abuse and gradually expended to physical abuse. I felt as though I had nowhere to go. I was a woman with five children, one who had severe special-needs, and no money or resources. Today, I am an advocate for women who continue to suffer in silence. I am an advocate for children, who are neglected or abused as I was.  Today I am a strong, educated single mother, who has a large, beautiful family, all for me to love. I have overcome so many obstacles in my life, and I am determined, and will not stop until I obtain my doctorate degree in clinical psychology…something that I have always dreamed of. I am the true representation of what overcoming adversities looks like. I am strong, I am confident and I am healed. My goal is to pursue my masters degree in psychology and follow that degree with my doctorate. I would like to continue my passion and my work with women and children , and be an example that there is a way out and there is a safe place. To me, strength is knowledge, education, life experiences, and overcoming adversity’s.  I am a firm believer that everyone of us has a purpose and has a reason. No matter how hard it gets, no matter how tired I become, and no matter how many times I want to give up…. I never will because I am a winner.

My name is Latriece Anderson, and I am a first year master’s level graduate student at Walden University majoring in clinical psychology. After 20 years of doubting myself, and feeling, as if I would not be able to endure, I made a decision to pursue my lifelong dream of becoming a clinical psychologist.  Presently, I work as a foster care, social work supervisor with Lutheran services in Carolinas. Working in the field of foster care should be extremely difficult for social workers are positions of witnessing children, being abused, sexually, verbally, and physically and so many children are blatantly neglected on a regular basis. I am a mother of five and I have two beautiful grandchildren. My second daughter was born with cerebral palsy. I was a teen mother I wish I gave birth to my first child, at the age of 17. I wasn't even finished high school whenever I became a mom.  When I gave birth to my second daughter, I was 19 years old. As a teen mom of two children, one with severe special-needs life and itself, we came extremely difficult for me. When my daughter was one years old, she began to have grand mal seizures. We later learned that she is also deaf and nonverbal. I remember thinking to myself how am 1, a mother of two who is barely educated, going to take care of children, who God blessed me with. I felt the need to be protected, and I wanted to feel safe. Growing up as a child, my father was terribly addicted to drugs and alcohol. As a young girl, l've seen so many things, and I always felt so exposed and unprotected. I met who became my husband at the age of 20. He was nine years older than me, and I think because of our age difference, I gravitated to him, and for the first time in my life, I finally felt safe. We were married, after dating less than a year, and I gave birth to three more beautiful children.  After being married, for two years, that's when the abuse started. It started with the verbal abuse and gradually expended to physical abuse. I felt as though I had nowhere to go. I was a woman with five children, one who had severe special-needs, and no money or resources. Today, I am an advocate for women who continue to suffer in silence. I am an advocate for children, who are neglected or abused as I was.  Today I am a strong, educated single mother, who has a large, beautiful family, all for me to love. I have overcome so many obstacles in my life, and I am determined, and will not stop until I obtain my doctorate degree in clinical psychology…something that I have always dreamed of. I am the true representation of what overcoming adversities looks like. I am strong, I am confident and I am healed. My goal is to pursue my masters degree in psychology and follow that degree with my doctorate. I would like to continue my passion and my work with women and children , and be an example that there is a way out and there is a safe place. To me, strength is knowledge, education, life experiences, and overcoming adversity’s.  I am a firm believer that everyone of us has a purpose and has a reason. No matter how hard it gets, no matter how tired I become, and no matter how many times I want to give up…. I never will because I am a winner.

My name is Latriece Anderson, and I am a first year master’s level graduate student at Walden University majoring in clinical psychology. After 20 years of doubting myself, and feeling, as if I would not be able to endure, I made a decision to pursue my lifelong dream of becoming a clinical psychologist.  Presently, I work as a foster care, social work supervisor with Lutheran services in Carolinas. Working in the field of foster care should be extremely difficult for social workers are positions of witnessing children, being abused, sexually, verbally, and physically and so many children are blatantly neglected on a regular basis. I am a mother of five and I have two beautiful grandchildren. My second daughter was born with cerebral palsy. I was a teen mother I wish I gave birth to my first child, at the age of 17. I wasn't even finished high school whenever I became a mom.  When I gave birth to my second daughter, I was 19 years old. As a teen mom of two children, one with severe special-needs life and itself, we came extremely difficult for me. When my daughter was one years old, she began to have grand mal seizures. We later learned that she is also deaf and nonverbal. I remember thinking to myself how am 1, a mother of two who is barely educated, going to take care of children, who God blessed me with. I felt the need to be protected, and I wanted to feel safe. Growing up as a child, my father was terribly addicted to drugs and alcohol. As a young girl, l've seen so many things, and I always felt so exposed and unprotected. I met who became my husband at the age of 20. He was nine years older than me, and I think because of our age difference, I gravitated to him, and for the first time in my life, I finally felt safe. We were married, after dating less than a year, and I gave birth to three more beautiful children.  After being married, for two years, that's when the abuse started. It started with the verbal abuse and gradually expended to physical abuse. I felt as though I had nowhere to go. I was a woman with five children, one who had severe special-needs, and no money or resources. Today, I am an advocate for women who continue to suffer in silence. I am an advocate for children, who are neglected or abused as I was.  Today I am a strong, educated single mother, who has a large, beautiful family, all for me to love. I have overcome so many obstacles in my life, and I am determined, and will not stop until I obtain my doctorate degree in clinical psychology…something that I have always dreamed of. I am the true representation of what overcoming adversities looks like. I am strong, I am confident and I am healed. My goal is to pursue my masters degree in psychology and follow that degree with my doctorate. I would like to continue my passion and my work with women and children , and be an example that there is a way out and there is a safe place. To me, strength is knowledge, education, life experiences, and overcoming adversity’s.  I am a firm believer that everyone of us has a purpose and has a reason. No matter how hard it gets, no matter how tired I become, and no matter how many times I want to give up…. I never will because I am a winner.

My name is Latriece Anderson, and I am a first year master’s level graduate student at Walden University majoring in clinical psychology. After 20 years of doubting myself, and feeling, as if I would not be able to endure, I made a decision to pursue my lifelong dream of becoming a clinical psychologist.  Presently, I work as a foster care, social work supervisor with Lutheran services in Carolinas. Working in the field of foster care should be extremely difficult for social workers are positions of witnessing children, being abused, sexually, verbally, and physically and so many children are blatantly neglected on a regular basis. I am a mother of five and I have two beautiful grandchildren. My second daughter was born with cerebral palsy. I was a teen mother I wish I gave birth to my first child, at the age of 17. I wasn't even finished high school whenever I became a mom.  When I gave birth to my second daughter, I was 19 years old. As a teen mom of two children, one with severe special-needs life and itself, we came extremely difficult for me. When my daughter was one years old, she began to have grand mal seizures. We later learned that she is also deaf and nonverbal. I remember thinking to myself how am 1, a mother of two who is barely educated, going to take care of children, who God blessed me with. I felt the need to be protected, and I wanted to feel safe. Growing up as a child, my father was terribly addicted to drugs and alcohol. As a young girl, l've seen so many things, and I always felt so exposed and unprotected. I met who became my husband at the age of 20. He was nine years older than me, and I think because of our age difference, I gravitated to him, and for the first time in my life, I finally felt safe. We were married, after dating less than a year, and I gave birth to three more beautiful children.  After being married, for two years, that's when the abuse started. It started with the verbal abuse and gradually expended to physical abuse. I felt as though I had nowhere to go. I was a woman with five children, one who had severe special-needs, and no money or resources. Today, I am an advocate for women who continue to suffer in silence. I am an advocate for children, who are neglected or abused as I was.  Today I am a strong, educated single mother, who has a large, beautiful family, all for me to love. I have overcome so many obstacles in my life, and I am determined, and will not stop until I obtain my doctorate degree in clinical psychology…something that I have always dreamed of. I am the true representation of what overcoming adversities looks like. I am strong, I am confident and I am healed. My goal is to pursue my masters degree in psychology and follow that degree with my doctorate. I would like to continue my passion and my work with women and children , and be an example that there is a way out and there is a safe place. To me, strength is knowledge, education, life experiences, and overcoming adversity’s.  I am a firm believer that everyone of us has a purpose and has a reason. No matter how hard it gets, no matter how tired I become, and no matter how many times I want to give up…. I never will because I am a winner.

My name is Latriece Anderson, and I am a first year master’s level graduate student at Walden University majoring in clinical psychology. After 20 years of doubting myself, and feeling, as if I would not be able to endure, I made a decision to pursue my lifelong dream of becoming a clinical psychologist.  Presently, I work as a foster care, social work supervisor with Lutheran services in Carolinas. Working in the field of foster care should be extremely difficult for social workers are positions of witnessing children, being abused, sexually, verbally, and physically and so many children are blatantly neglected on a regular basis. I am a mother of five and I have two beautiful grandchildren. My second daughter was born with cerebral palsy. I was a teen mother I wish I gave birth to my first child, at the age of 17. I wasn't even finished high school whenever I became a mom.  When I gave birth to my second daughter, I was 19 years old. As a teen mom of two children, one with severe special-needs life and itself, we came extremely difficult for me. When my daughter was one years old, she began to have grand mal seizures. We later learned that she is also deaf and nonverbal. I remember thinking to myself how am 1, a mother of two who is barely educated, going to take care of children, who God blessed me with. I felt the need to be protected, and I wanted to feel safe. Growing up as a child, my father was terribly addicted to drugs and alcohol. As a young girl, l've seen so many things, and I always felt so exposed and unprotected. I met who became my husband at the age of 20. He was nine years older than me, and I think because of our age difference, I gravitated to him, and for the first time in my life, I finally felt safe. We were married, after dating less than a year, and I gave birth to three more beautiful children.  After being married, for two years, that's when the abuse started. It started with the verbal abuse and gradually expended to physical abuse. I felt as though I had nowhere to go. I was a woman with five children, one who had severe special-needs, and no money or resources. Today, I am an advocate for women who continue to suffer in silence. I am an advocate for children, who are neglected or abused as I was.  Today I am a strong, educated single mother, who has a large, beautiful family, all for me to love. I have overcome so many obstacles in my life, and I am determined, and will not stop until I obtain my doctorate degree in clinical psychology…something that I have always dreamed of. I am the true representation of what overcoming adversities looks like. I am strong, I am confident and I am healed. My goal is to pursue my masters degree in psychology and follow that degree with my doctorate. I would like to continue my passion and my work with women and children , and be an example that there is a way out and there is a safe place. To me, strength is knowledge, education, life experiences, and overcoming adversity’s.  I am a firm believer that everyone of us has a purpose and has a reason. No matter how hard it gets, no matter how tired I become, and no matter how many times I want to give up…. I never will because I am a winner.

My name is Latriece Anderson, and I am a first year master’s level graduate student at Walden University majoring in clinical psychology. After 20 years of doubting myself, and feeling, as if I would not be able to endure, I made a decision to pursue my lifelong dream of becoming a clinical psychologist.  Presently, I work as a foster care, social work supervisor with Lutheran services in Carolinas. Working in the field of foster care should be extremely difficult for social workers are positions of witnessing children, being abused, sexually, verbally, and physically and so many children are blatantly neglected on a regular basis. I am a mother of five and I have two beautiful grandchildren. My second daughter was born with cerebral palsy. I was a teen mother I wish I gave birth to my first child, at the age of 17. I wasn't even finished high school whenever I became a mom.  When I gave birth to my second daughter, I was 19 years old. As a teen mom of two children, one with severe special-needs life and itself, we came extremely difficult for me. When my daughter was one years old, she began to have grand mal seizures. We later learned that she is also deaf and nonverbal. I remember thinking to myself how am 1, a mother of two who is barely educated, going to take care of children, who God blessed me with. I felt the need to be protected, and I wanted to feel safe. Growing up as a child, my father was terribly addicted to drugs and alcohol. As a young girl, l've seen so many things, and I always felt so exposed and unprotected. I met who became my husband at the age of 20. He was nine years older than me, and I think because of our age difference, I gravitated to him, and for the first time in my life, I finally felt safe. We were married, after dating less than a year, and I gave birth to three more beautiful children.  After being married, for two years, that's when the abuse started. It started with the verbal abuse and gradually expended to physical abuse. I felt as though I had nowhere to go. I was a woman with five children, one who had severe special-needs, and no money or resources. Today, I am an advocate for women who continue to suffer in silence. I am an advocate for children, who are neglected or abused as I was.  Today I am a strong, educated single mother, who has a large, beautiful family, all for me to love. I have overcome so many obstacles in my life, and I am determined, and will not stop until I obtain my doctorate degree in clinical psychology…something that I have always dreamed of. I am the true representation of what overcoming adversities looks like. I am strong, I am confident and I am healed. My goal is to pursue my masters degree in psychology and follow that degree with my doctorate. I would like to continue my passion and my work with women and children , and be an example that there is a way out and there is a safe place. To me, strength is knowledge, education, life experiences, and overcoming adversity’s.  I am a firm believer that everyone of us has a purpose and has a reason. No matter how hard it gets, no matter how tired I become, and no matter how many times I want to give up…. I never will because I am a winner.

My name is Latriece Anderson, and I am a first year master’s level graduate student at Walden University majoring in clinical psychology. After 20 years of doubting myself, and feeling, as if I would not be able to endure, I made a decision to pursue my lifelong dream of becoming a clinical psychologist.  Presently, I work as a foster care, social work supervisor with Lutheran services in Carolinas. Working in the field of foster care should be extremely difficult for social workers are positions of witnessing children, being abused, sexually, verbally, and physically and so many children are blatantly neglected on a regular basis. I am a mother of five and I have two beautiful grandchildren. My second daughter was born with cerebral palsy. I was a teen mother I wish I gave birth to my first child, at the age of 17. I wasn't even finished high school whenever I became a mom.  When I gave birth to my second daughter, I was 19 years old. As a teen mom of two children, one with severe special-needs life and itself, we came extremely difficult for me. When my daughter was one years old, she began to have grand mal seizures. We later learned that she is also deaf and nonverbal. I remember thinking to myself how am 1, a mother of two who is barely educated, going to take care of children, who God blessed me with. I felt the need to be protected, and I wanted to feel safe. Growing up as a child, my father was terribly addicted to drugs and alcohol. As a young girl, l've seen so many things, and I always felt so exposed and unprotected. I met who became my husband at the age of 20. He was nine years older than me, and I think because of our age difference, I gravitated to him, and for the first time in my life, I finally felt safe. We were married, after dating less than a year, and I gave birth to three more beautiful children.  After being married, for two years, that's when the abuse started. It started with the verbal abuse and gradually expended to physical abuse. I felt as though I had nowhere to go. I was a woman with five children, one who had severe special-needs, and no money or resources. Today, I am an advocate for women who continue to suffer in silence. I am an advocate for children, who are neglected or abused as I was.  Today I am a strong, educated single mother, who has a large, beautiful family, all for me to love. I have overcome so many obstacles in my life, and I am determined, and will not stop until I obtain my doctorate degree in clinical psychology…something that I have always dreamed of. I am the true representation of what overcoming adversities looks like. I am strong, I am confident and I am healed. My goal is to pursue my masters degree in psychology and follow that degree with my doctorate. I would like to continue my passion and my work with women and children , and be an example that there is a way out and there is a safe place. To me, strength is knowledge, education, life experiences, and overcoming adversity’s.  I am a firm believer that everyone of us has a purpose and has a reason. No matter how hard it gets, no matter how tired I become, and no matter how many times I want to give up…. I never will because I am a winner.

Recovery means to me overcoming a disorder and serious disease that can affect a persons, mental health, family, relationships, and physical health. I was raised in a home with a severely addicted father. I grew up, watching him, struggle with his addiction, and in and out of treatment facilities, trying to get help each time promising me things will be different. As a teenager, I did not have much supervision in our home and resulted in getting pregnant while still in high school at the age of 16. I resented my father for a difficult life my sister, brother, and I had to endure. Today, my father is in recovery and has been clean and sober for over 10 years. He has devoted his life to working with, and helping others overcome the disease of addiction. I too have taken on that role focused on helping families understand co-addiction and enabling. I am a licensed and certified substance abuse counselor in the state of North Carolina. I work with children and adults on an individual and group setting to address, addictive traits, qualities and triggers. I feel it is important to help others especially family members understand that addiction is not a choice, but it is in fact a disease. I look for in continuing my education in this area and I am currently a graduate student at Walden university, studying clinical psychology and counseling. Thank you for your time and generosity for offering this scholarship.

My name is Latriece Anderson, and I am a first year master’s level graduate student at Walden University majoring in clinical psychology. After 20 years of doubting myself, and feeling, as if I would not be able to endure, I made a decision to pursue my lifelong dream of becoming a clinical psychologist.  Presently, I work as a foster care, social work supervisor with Lutheran services in Carolinas. Working in the field of foster care should be extremely difficult for social workers are positions of witnessing children, being abused, sexually, verbally, and physically and so many children are blatantly neglected on a regular basis. I am a mother of five and I have two beautiful grandchildren. My second daughter was born with cerebral palsy. I was a teen mother I wish I gave birth to my first child, at the age of 17. I wasn't even finished high school whenever I became a mom.  When I gave birth to my second daughter, I was 19 years old. As a teen mom of two children, one with severe special-needs life and itself, we came extremely difficult for me. When my daughter was one years old, she began to have grand mal seizures. We later learned that she is also deaf and nonverbal. I remember thinking to myself how am 1, a mother of two who is barely educated, going to take care of children, who God blessed me with. I felt the need to be protected, and I wanted to feel safe. Growing up as a child, my father was terribly addicted to drugs and alcohol. As a young girl, l've seen so many things, and I always felt so exposed and unprotected. I met who became my husband at the age of 20. He was nine years older than me, and I think because of our age difference, I gravitated to him, and for the first time in my life, I finally felt safe. We were married, after dating less than a year, and I gave birth to three more beautiful children.  After being married, for two years, that's when the abuse started. It started with the verbal abuse and gradually expended to physical abuse. I felt as though I had nowhere to go. I was a woman with five children, one who had severe special-needs, and no money or resources. Today, I am an advocate for women who continue to suffer in silence. I am an advocate for children, who are neglected or abused as I was.  Today I am a strong, educated single mother, who has a large, beautiful family, all for me to love. I have overcome so many obstacles in my life, and I am determined, and will not stop until I obtain my doctorate degree in clinical psychology…something that I have always dreamed of. I am the true representation of what overcoming adversities looks like. I am strong, I am confident and I am healed. My goal is to pursue my masters degree in psychology and follow that degree with my doctorate. I would like to continue my passion and my work with women and children , and be an example that there is a way out and there is a safe place. To me, strength is knowledge, education, life experiences, and overcoming adversity’s.  I am a firm believer that everyone of us has a purpose and has a reason. No matter how hard it gets, no matter how tired I become, and no matter how many times I want to give up…. I never will because I am a winner.

My name is Latriece Anderson, and I am a first year master’s level graduate student at Walden University majoring in clinical psychology. After 20 years of doubting myself, and feeling, as if I would not be able to endure, I made a decision to pursue my lifelong dream of becoming a clinical psychologist.  Presently, I work as a foster care, social work supervisor with Lutheran services in Carolinas. Working in the field of foster care should be extremely difficult for social workers are positions of witnessing children, being abused, sexually, verbally, and physically and so many children are blatantly neglected on a regular basis. I am a mother of five and I have two beautiful grandchildren. My second daughter was born with cerebral palsy. I was a teen mother I wish I gave birth to my first child, at the age of 17. I wasn't even finished high school whenever I became a mom.  When I gave birth to my second daughter, I was 19 years old. As a teen mom of two children, one with severe special-needs life and itself, we came extremely difficult for me. When my daughter was one years old, she began to have grand mal seizures. We later learned that she is also deaf and nonverbal. I remember thinking to myself how am 1, a mother of two who is barely educated, going to take care of children, who God blessed me with. I felt the need to be protected, and I wanted to feel safe. Growing up as a child, my father was terribly addicted to drugs and alcohol. As a young girl, l've seen so many things, and I always felt so exposed and unprotected. I met who became my husband at the age of 20. He was nine years older than me, and I think because of our age difference, I gravitated to him, and for the first time in my life, I finally felt safe. We were married, after dating less than a year, and I gave birth to three more beautiful children.  After being married, for two years, that's when the abuse started. It started with the verbal abuse and gradually expended to physical abuse. I felt as though I had nowhere to go. I was a woman with five children, one who had severe special-needs, and no money or resources. Today, I am an advocate for women who continue to suffer in silence. I am an advocate for children, who are neglected or abused as I was.  Today I am a strong, educated single mother, who has a large, beautiful family, all for me to love. I have overcome so many obstacles in my life, and I am determined, and will not stop until I obtain my doctorate degree in clinical psychology…something that I have always dreamed of. I am the true representation of what overcoming adversities looks like. I am strong, I am confident and I am healed. My goal is to pursue my masters degree in psychology and follow that degree with my doctorate. I would like to continue my passion and my work with women and children , and be an example that there is a way out and there is a safe place. To me, strength is knowledge, education, life experiences, and overcoming adversity’s.  I am a firm believer that everyone of us has a purpose and has a reason. No matter how hard it gets, no matter how tired I become, and no matter how many times I want to give up…. I never will because I am a winner.

My name is Latriece Anderson, and I am a first year master’s level graduate student at Walden University majoring in clinical psychology. After 20 years of doubting myself, and feeling, as if I would not be able to endure, I made a decision to pursue my lifelong dream of becoming a clinical psychologist.  Presently, I work as a foster care, social work supervisor with Lutheran services in Carolinas. Working in the field of foster care should be extremely difficult for social workers are positions of witnessing children, being abused, sexually, verbally, and physically and so many children are blatantly neglected on a regular basis. I am a mother of five and I have two beautiful grandchildren. My second daughter was born with cerebral palsy. I was a teen mother I wish I gave birth to my first child, at the age of 17. I wasn't even finished high school whenever I became a mom.  When I gave birth to my second daughter, I was 19 years old. As a teen mom of two children, one with severe special-needs life and itself, we came extremely difficult for me. When my daughter was one years old, she began to have grand mal seizures. We later learned that she is also deaf and nonverbal. I remember thinking to myself how am 1, a mother of two who is barely educated, going to take care of children, who God blessed me with. I felt the need to be protected, and I wanted to feel safe. Growing up as a child, my father was terribly addicted to drugs and alcohol. As a young girl, l've seen so many things, and I always felt so exposed and unprotected. I met who became my husband at the age of 20. He was nine years older than me, and I think because of our age difference, I gravitated to him, and for the first time in my life, I finally felt safe. We were married, after dating less than a year, and I gave birth to three more beautiful children.  After being married, for two years, that's when the abuse started. It started with the verbal abuse and gradually expended to physical abuse. I felt as though I had nowhere to go. I was a woman with five children, one who had severe special-needs, and no money or resources. Today, I am an advocate for women who continue to suffer in silence. I am an advocate for children, who are neglected or abused as I was.  Today I am a strong, educated single mother, who has a large, beautiful family, all for me to love. I have overcome so many obstacles in my life, and I am determined, and will not stop until I obtain my doctorate degree in clinical psychology…something that I have always dreamed of. I am the true representation of what overcoming adversities looks like. I am strong, I am confident and I am healed. My goal is to pursue my masters degree in psychology and follow that degree with my doctorate. I would like to continue my passion and my work with women and children , and be an example that there is a way out and there is a safe place. To me, strength is knowledge, education, life experiences, and overcoming adversity’s.  I am a firm believer that everyone of us has a purpose and has a reason. No matter how hard it gets, no matter how tired I become, and no matter how many times I want to give up…. I never will because I am a winner.

My name is Latriece Anderson, and I am a first year master’s level graduate student at Walden University majoring in clinical psychology. After 20 years of doubting myself, and feeling, as if I would not be able to endure, I made a decision to pursue my lifelong dream of becoming a clinical psychologist.  Presently, I work as a foster care, social work supervisor with Lutheran services in Carolinas. Working in the field of foster care should be extremely difficult for social workers are positions of witnessing children, being abused, sexually, verbally, and physically and so many children are blatantly neglected on a regular basis. I am a mother of five and I have two beautiful grandchildren. My second daughter was born with cerebral palsy. I was a teen mother I wish I gave birth to my first child, at the age of 17. I wasn't even finished high school whenever I became a mom.  When I gave birth to my second daughter, I was 19 years old. As a teen mom of two children, one with severe special-needs life and itself, we came extremely difficult for me. When my daughter was one years old, she began to have grand mal seizures. We later learned that she is also deaf and nonverbal. I remember thinking to myself how am 1, a mother of two who is barely educated, going to take care of children, who God blessed me with. I felt the need to be protected, and I wanted to feel safe. Growing up as a child, my father was terribly addicted to drugs and alcohol. As a young girl, l've seen so many things, and I always felt so exposed and unprotected. I met who became my husband at the age of 20. He was nine years older than me, and I think because of our age difference, I gravitated to him, and for the first time in my life, I finally felt safe. We were married, after dating less than a year, and I gave birth to three more beautiful children.  After being married, for two years, that's when the abuse started. It started with the verbal abuse and gradually expended to physical abuse. I felt as though I had nowhere to go. I was a woman with five children, one who had severe special-needs, and no money or resources. Today, I am an advocate for women who continue to suffer in silence. I am an advocate for children, who are neglected or abused as I was.  Today I am a strong, educated single mother, who has a large, beautiful family, all for me to love. I have overcome so many obstacles in my life, and I am determined, and will not stop until I obtain my doctorate degree in clinical psychology…something that I have always dreamed of. I am the true representation of what overcoming adversities looks like. I am strong, I am confident and I am healed. My goal is to pursue my masters degree in psychology and follow that degree with my doctorate. I would like to continue my passion and my work with women and children , and be an example that there is a way out and there is a safe place. To me, strength is knowledge, education, life experiences, and overcoming adversity’s.  I am a firm believer that everyone of us has a purpose and has a reason. No matter how hard it gets, no matter how tired I become, and no matter how many times I want to give up…. I never will because I am a winner.

My name is Latriece Anderson, and I am a first year master’s level graduate student at Walden University majoring in clinical psychology. After 20 years of doubting myself, and feeling, as if I would not be able to endure, I made a decision to pursue my lifelong dream of becoming a clinical psychologist.  Presently, I work as a foster care, social work supervisor with Lutheran services in Carolinas. Working in the field of foster care should be extremely difficult for social workers are positions of witnessing children, being abused, sexually, verbally, and physically and so many children are blatantly neglected on a regular basis. I am a mother of five and I have two beautiful grandchildren. My second daughter was born with cerebral palsy. I was a teen mother I wish I gave birth to my first child, at the age of 17. I wasn't even finished high school whenever I became a mom.  When I gave birth to my second daughter, I was 19 years old. As a teen mom of two children, one with severe special-needs life and itself, we came extremely difficult for me. When my daughter was one years old, she began to have grand mal seizures. We later learned that she is also deaf and nonverbal. I remember thinking to myself how am 1, a mother of two who is barely educated, going to take care of children, who God blessed me with. I felt the need to be protected, and I wanted to feel safe. Growing up as a child, my father was terribly addicted to drugs and alcohol. As a young girl, l've seen so many things, and I always felt so exposed and unprotected. I met who became my husband at the age of 20. He was nine years older than me, and I think because of our age difference, I gravitated to him, and for the first time in my life, I finally felt safe. We were married, after dating less than a year, and I gave birth to three more beautiful children.  After being married, for two years, that's when the abuse started. It started with the verbal abuse and gradually expended to physical abuse. I felt as though I had nowhere to go. I was a woman with five children, one who had severe special-needs, and no money or resources. Today, I am an advocate for women who continue to suffer in silence. I am an advocate for children, who are neglected or abused as I was.  Today I am a strong, educated single mother, who has a large, beautiful family, all for me to love. I have overcome so many obstacles in my life, and I am determined, and will not stop until I obtain my doctorate degree in clinical psychology…something that I have always dreamed of. I am the true representation of what overcoming adversities looks like. I am strong, I am confident and I am healed. My goal is to pursue my masters degree in psychology and follow that degree with my doctorate. I would like to continue my passion and my work with women and children , and be an example that there is a way out and there is a safe place. To me, strength is knowledge, education, life experiences, and overcoming adversity’s.  I am a firm believer that everyone of us has a purpose and has a reason. No matter how hard it gets, no matter how tired I become, and no matter how many times I want to give up…. I never will because I am a winner.

My name is Latriece Anderson, and I am a first year master’s level graduate student at Walden University majoring in clinical psychology. After 20 years of doubting myself, and feeling, as if I would not be able to endure, I made a decision to pursue my lifelong dream of becoming a clinical psychologist.  Presently, I work as a foster care, social work supervisor with Lutheran services in Carolinas. Working in the field of foster care should be extremely difficult for social workers are positions of witnessing children, being abused, sexually, verbally, and physically and so many children are blatantly neglected on a regular basis. I am a mother of five and I have two beautiful grandchildren. My second daughter was born with cerebral palsy. I was a teen mother I wish I gave birth to my first child, at the age of 17. I wasn't even finished high school whenever I became a mom.  When I gave birth to my second daughter, I was 19 years old. As a teen mom of two children, one with severe special-needs life and itself, we came extremely difficult for me. When my daughter was one years old, she began to have grand mal seizures. We later learned that she is also deaf and nonverbal. I remember thinking to myself how am 1, a mother of two who is barely educated, going to take care of children, who God blessed me with. I felt the need to be protected, and I wanted to feel safe. Growing up as a child, my father was terribly addicted to drugs and alcohol. As a young girl, l've seen so many things, and I always felt so exposed and unprotected. I met who became my husband at the age of 20. He was nine years older than me, and I think because of our age difference, I gravitated to him, and for the first time in my life, I finally felt safe. We were married, after dating less than a year, and I gave birth to three more beautiful children.  After being married, for two years, that's when the abuse started. It started with the verbal abuse and gradually expended to physical abuse. I felt as though I had nowhere to go. I was a woman with five children, one who had severe special-needs, and no money or resources. Today, I am an advocate for women who continue to suffer in silence. I am an advocate for children, who are neglected or abused as I was.  Today I am a strong, educated single mother, who has a large, beautiful family, all for me to love. I have overcome so many obstacles in my life, and I am determined, and will not stop until I obtain my doctorate degree in clinical psychology…something that I have always dreamed of. I am the true representation of what overcoming adversities looks like. I am strong, I am confident and I am healed. My goal is to pursue my masters degree in psychology and follow that degree with my doctorate. I would like to continue my passion and my work with women and children , and be an example that there is a way out and there is a safe place. To me, strength is knowledge, education, life experiences, and overcoming adversity’s.  I am a firm believer that everyone of us has a purpose and has a reason. No matter how hard it gets, no matter how tired I become, and no matter how many times I want to give up…. I never will because I am a winner.

My name is Latriece Anderson, and I am a first year master’s level graduate student at Walden University majoring in clinical psychology. After 20 years of doubting myself, and feeling, as if I would not be able to endure, I made a decision to pursue my lifelong dream of becoming a clinical psychologist.  Presently, I work as a foster care, social work supervisor with Lutheran services in Carolinas. Working in the field of foster care should be extremely difficult for social workers are positions of witnessing children, being abused, sexually, verbally, and physically and so many children are blatantly neglected on a regular basis. I am a mother of five and I have two beautiful grandchildren. My second daughter was born with cerebral palsy. I was a teen mother I wish I gave birth to my first child, at the age of 17. I wasn't even finished high school whenever I became a mom.  When I gave birth to my second daughter, I was 19 years old. As a teen mom of two children, one with severe special-needs life and itself, we came extremely difficult for me. When my daughter was one years old, she began to have grand mal seizures. We later learned that she is also deaf and nonverbal. I remember thinking to myself how am 1, a mother of two who is barely educated, going to take care of children, who God blessed me with. I felt the need to be protected, and I wanted to feel safe. Growing up as a child, my father was terribly addicted to drugs and alcohol. As a young girl, l've seen so many things, and I always felt so exposed and unprotected. I met who became my husband at the age of 20. He was nine years older than me, and I think because of our age difference, I gravitated to him, and for the first time in my life, I finally felt safe. We were married, after dating less than a year, and I gave birth to three more beautiful children.  After being married, for two years, that's when the abuse started. It started with the verbal abuse and gradually expended to physical abuse. I hid the black eyes and swollen faces from my family and friends. I felt as though I had nowhere to go. I was a woman with five children, one who had severe special-needs, and no money or resources. I was able to make a plan, and find a way to safely remove myself and my children out of that terrible situation. Today, I am an advocate for women who continue to suffer in silence. I am an advocate for children, who are neglected or abused as I was.  Today I am a strong, educated single mother, who has a large, beautiful family, all for me to love. I have overcome so many obstacles in my life, and I am determined, and will not stop until I obtain my doctorate degree in clinical psychology…something that I have always dreamed of. I am a success. I am the true representation of what overcoming adversities looks like. I am strong, I am confident and I am healed. It took me so long to get to the place that I am in life right now. From growing up for with an addicted father, to sliding through high school, and becoming a mother, my senior year, to living in the housing projects, trying to make away and survive for me and my daughter. I have learned that life is not easy and sometimes we go through some rough spots, some more than others.  I gain strength from my past. I gain knowledge, understanding, and empathy because of my past. I speak to women who continue to live in that vicious cycle of abuse and neglect. I pray for them, and I make sure I let them now that, regardless of what decision they make if they stay, or if they go, I would never judge them.  My goal is to pursue my masters degree in psychology and follow that degree with my doctorate. I would like to continue my passion and my work with women and children , and be an example that there is a way out and there is a safe place. To me, strength is knowledge, education, life experiences, and overcoming adversity’s.  The purpose of me applying for this particular scholarship is because I am honestly having such a difficult time with financing, my college education and trying to take care of my children as a single parent. I am not , a person who gives up easily. I am going to fight, I am going to find a way. I invest all of my energy, time and all of me into my children and remind them every day that they are loved and they are wanted.  I am a firm believer that everyone of us has a purpose and has a reason. I am willing  to fight and do whatever is necessary to make sure that that dream comes true. I want to prove anything is possible to myself and other women who struggle just like me to know you can do it.  Unfortunately, I didn’t have a college fund set up when I was a child and my parents are not financially able to help me throughout school. I’m doing this all on my own. I’m doing this for a purpose and for a goal. I will make an impact in my community and I will make a difference. No matter how hard it gets, no matter how tired I become, and no matter how many times I want to give up…. I never will because I am a winner. Thank you for you time and consideration. It is people like you, willing to give to help others succeed is why I am determined to one day give back. I truly hope to hear from you soon. Latriece Anderson (919) 344-5419 latrieceanderson05@gmail.com

My name is Latriece Anderson, and I am a first year graduate student at Walden University. After 20 years of doubting myself, and feeling, as if I would not be able to endure, I made a decision to pursue my lifelong dream of becoming a clinical psychologist. Presently, I work as a foster care, social work supervisor with Lutheran services in Carolinas. Working in the field of foster care should be extremely difficult for social workers are positions of witnessing children, being abused, sexually, verbally, and physically and so many children are blatantly neglected on a regular basis. I am a mother of five and I have two beautiful grandchildren. My second daughter was born with cerebral palsy. I was a teen mother I wish I gave birth to my first child, at the age of 17. I wasn't even finished high school whenever I became a mom. When I gave birth to my second daughter, I was 19 years old. As a teen mom of two children, one with severe special-needs life and itself, we came extremely difficult for me. When my daughter was one years old, she began to have grand mal seizures. We later learned that she is also deaf and nonverbal. I remember thinking to myself how am 1, a mother of two who is barely educated, going to take care of children, who God blessed me with. I felt the need to be protected, and I wanted to feel safe. Growing up as a child, my father was terribly addicted to drugs and alcohol. As a young girl, l've seen so many things, and I always felt so exposed and unprotected. I met who became my husband at the age of 20. He was nine years older than me, and I think because of our age difference, I gravitated to him, and for the first time in my life, I finally felt safe. We were married, after dating less than a year, and I gave birth to three more beautiful children. After being married, for two years, that's when the abuse started. It started with the verbal abuse and gradually expended to physical abuse. I hid the black eyes and swollen faces from my family and friends. I felt as though I had nowhere to go. I was a woman with five children, one who had severe special-needs, and no money or resources. I was able to make a plan, and find a way to safely remove myself and my children out of that terrible situation. Today, I am an advocate for women who continue to suffer in silence. I am an advocate for children, who are neglected or abused as I was. Today I am a strong, educated single mother, who has a large, beautiful family, all for me to love. I have overcome so many obstacles in my life, and I am determined, and will not start until I obtain the masters degree that I have always dreamed of. I am a success. I am the true being of what overcoming adversities looks like. I am strong, I am confident and I am healed.

My name is Latriece Anderson, and I am a first year graduate student at Walden University. After 20 years of doubting myself, and feeling, as if I would not be able to endure, I made a decision to pursue my lifelong dream of becoming a clinical psychologist. Presently, I work as a foster care, social work supervisor with Lutheran services in Carolinas. Working in the field of foster care should be extremely difficult for social workers are positions of witnessing children, being abused, sexually, verbally, and physically and so many children are blatantly neglected on a regular basis. I am a mother of five and I have two beautiful grandchildren. My second daughter was born with cerebral palsy. I was a teen mother I wish I gave birth to my first child, at the age of 17. I wasn't even finished high school whenever I became a mom. When I gave birth to my second daughter, I was 19 years old. As a teen mom of two children, one with severe special-needs life and itself, we came extremely difficult for me. When my daughter was one years old, she began to have grand mal seizures. We later learned that she is also deaf and nonverbal. I remember thinking to myself how am 1, a mother of two who is barely educated, going to take care of children, who God blessed me with. I felt the need to be protected, and I wanted to feel safe. Growing up as a child, my father was terribly addicted to drugs and alcohol. As a young girl, l've seen so many things, and I always felt so exposed and unprotected. I met who became my husband at the age of 20. He was nine years older than me, and I think because of our age difference, I gravitated to him, and for the first time in my life, I finally felt safe. We were married, after dating less than a year, and I gave birth to three more beautiful children. After being married, for two years, that's when the abuse started. It started with the verbal abuse and gradually expended to physical abuse. I hid the black eyes and swollen faces from my family and friends. I felt as though I had nowhere to go. I was a woman with five children, one who had severe special-needs, and no money or resources. I was able to make a plan, and find a way to safely remove myself and my children out of that terrible situation. Today, I am an advocate for women who continue to suffer in silence. I am an advocate for children, who are neglected or abused as I was. Today I am a strong, educated single mother, who has a large, beautiful family, all for me to love. I have overcome so many obstacles in my life, and I am determined, and will not start until I obtain the masters degree that I have always dreamed of. I am a success. I am the true being of what overcoming adversities looks like. I am strong, I am confident and I am healed.

My name is Latriece Anderson, and I am a first year graduate student at Walden University. After 20 years of doubting myself, and feeling, as if I would not be able to endure, I made a decision to pursue my lifelong dream of becoming a clinical psychologist. Presently, I work as a foster care, social work supervisor with Lutheran services in Carolinas. Working in the field of foster care should be extremely difficult for social workers are positions of witnessing children, being abused, sexually, verbally, and physically and so many children are blatantly neglected on a regular basis. I am a mother of five and I have two beautiful grandchildren. My second daughter was born with cerebral palsy. I was a teen mother I wish I gave birth to my first child, at the age of 17. I wasn't even finished high school whenever I became a mom. When I gave birth to my second daughter, I was 19 years old. As a teen mom of two children, one with severe special-needs life and itself, we came extremely difficult for me. When my daughter was one years old, she began to have grand mal seizures. We later learned that she is also deaf and nonverbal. I remember thinking to myself how am 1, a mother of two who is barely educated, going to take care of children, who God blessed me with. I felt the need to be protected, and I wanted to feel safe. Growing up as a child, my father was terribly addicted to drugs and alcohol. As a young girl, l've seen so many things, and I always felt so exposed and unprotected. I met who became my husband at the age of 20. He was nine years older than me, and I think because of our age difference, I gravitated to him, and for the first time in my life, I finally felt safe. We were married, after dating less than a year, and I gave birth to three more beautiful children. After being married, for two years, that's when the abuse started. It started with the verbal abuse and gradually expended to physical abuse. I hid the black eyes and swollen faces from my family and friends. I felt as though I had nowhere to go. I was a woman with five children, one who had severe special-needs, and no money or resources. I was able to make a plan, and find a way to safely remove myself and my children out of that terrible situation. Today, I am an advocate for women who continue to suffer in silence. I am an advocate for children, who are neglected or abused as I was. Today I am a strong, educated single mother, who has a large, beautiful family, all for me to love. I have overcome so many obstacles in my life, and I am determined, and will not start until I obtain the masters degree that I have always dreamed of. I am a success. I am the true being of what overcoming adversities looks like. I am strong, I am confident and I am healed.

My name is Latriece Anderson, and I am a first year graduate student at Walden University. After 20 years of doubting myself, and feeling, as if I would not be able to endure, I made a decision to pursue my lifelong dream of becoming a clinical psychologist. Presently, I work as a foster care, social work supervisor with Lutheran services in Carolinas. Working in the field of foster care should be extremely difficult for social workers are positions of witnessing children, being abused, sexually, verbally, and physically and so many children are blatantly neglected on a regular basis. I am a mother of five and I have two beautiful grandchildren. My second daughter was born with cerebral palsy. I was a teen mother I wish I gave birth to my first child, at the age of 17. I wasn't even finished high school whenever I became a mom. When I gave birth to my second daughter, I was 19 years old. As a teen mom of two children, one with severe special-needs life and itself, we came extremely difficult for me. When my daughter was one years old, she began to have grand mal seizures. We later learned that she is also deaf and nonverbal. I remember thinking to myself how am 1, a mother of two who is barely educated, going to take care of children, who God blessed me with. I felt the need to be protected, and I wanted to feel safe. Growing up as a child, my father was terribly addicted to drugs and alcohol. As a young girl, l've seen so many things, and I always felt so exposed and unprotected. I met who became my husband at the age of 20. He was nine years older than me, and I think because of our age difference, I gravitated to him, and for the first time in my life, I finally felt safe. We were married, after dating less than a year, and I gave birth to three more beautiful children. After being married, for two years, that's when the abuse started. It started with the verbal abuse and gradually expended to physical abuse. I hid the black eyes and swollen faces from my family and friends. I felt as though I had nowhere to go. I was a woman with five children, one who had severe special-needs, and no money or resources. I was able to make a plan, and find a way to safely remove myself and my children out of that terrible situation. Today, I am an advocate for women who continue to suffer in silence. I am an advocate for children, who are neglected or abused as I was. Today I am a strong, educated single mother, who has a large, beautiful family, all for me to love. I have overcome so many obstacles in my life, and I am determined, and will not start until I obtain the masters degree that I have always dreamed of. I am a success. I am the true being of what overcoming adversities looks like. I am strong, I am confident and I am healed.

My name is Latriece Anderson, and I am a first year graduate student at Walden University. After 20 years of doubting myself, and feeling, as if I would not be able to endure, I made a decision to pursue my lifelong dream of becoming a clinical psychologist. Presently, I work as a foster care, social work supervisor with Lutheran services in Carolinas. Working in the field of foster care should be extremely difficult for social workers are positions of witnessing children, being abused, sexually, verbally, and physically and so many children are blatantly neglected on a regular basis. I am a mother of five and I have two beautiful grandchildren. My second daughter was born with cerebral palsy. I was a teen mother I wish I gave birth to my first child, at the age of 17. I wasn't even finished high school whenever I became a mom. When I gave birth to my second daughter, I was 19 years old. As a teen mom of two children, one with severe special-needs life and itself, we came extremely difficult for me. When my daughter was one years old, she began to have grand mal seizures. We later learned that she is also deaf and nonverbal. I remember thinking to myself how am 1, a mother of two who is barely educated, going to take care of children, who God blessed me with. I felt the need to be protected, and I wanted to feel safe. Growing up as a child, my father was terribly addicted to drugs and alcohol. As a young girl, l've seen so many things, and I always felt so exposed and unprotected. I met who became my husband at the age of 20. He was nine years older than me, and I think because of our age difference, I gravitated to him, and for the first time in my life, I finally felt safe. We were married, after dating less than a year, and I gave birth to three more beautiful children. After being married, for two years, that's when the abuse started. It started with the verbal abuse and gradually expended to physical abuse. I hid the black eyes and swollen faces from my family and friends. I felt as though I had nowhere to go. I was a woman with five children, one who had severe special-needs, and no money or resources. I was able to make a plan, and find a way to safely remove myself and my children out of that terrible situation. Today, I am an advocate for women who continue to suffer in silence. I am an advocate for children, who are neglected or abused as I was. Today I am a strong, educated single mother, who has a large, beautiful family, all for me to love. I have overcome so many obstacles in my life, and I am determined, and will not start until I obtain the masters degree that I have always dreamed of. I am a success. I am the true being of what overcoming adversities looks like. I am strong, I am confident and I am healed.

My name is Latriece Anderson, and I am a first year graduate student at Walden University. After 20 years of doubting myself, and feeling, as if I would not be able to endure, I made a decision to pursue my lifelong dream of becoming a clinical psychologist. Presently, I work as a foster care, social work supervisor with Lutheran services in Carolinas. Working in the field of foster care should be extremely difficult for social workers are positions of witnessing children, being abused, sexually, verbally, and physically and so many children are blatantly neglected on a regular basis. I am a mother of five and I have two beautiful grandchildren. My second daughter was born with cerebral palsy. I was a teen mother I wish I gave birth to my first child, at the age of 17. I wasn't even finished high school whenever I became a mom. When I gave birth to my second daughter, I was 19 years old. As a teen mom of two children, one with severe special-needs life and itself, we came extremely difficult for me. When my daughter was one years old, she began to have grand mal seizures. We later learned that she is also deaf and nonverbal. I remember thinking to myself how am 1, a mother of two who is barely educated, going to take care of children, who God blessed me with. I felt the need to be protected, and I wanted to feel safe. Growing up as a child, my father was terribly addicted to drugs and alcohol. As a young girl, l've seen so many things, and I always felt so exposed and unprotected. I met who became my husband at the age of 20. He was nine years older than me, and I think because of our age difference, I gravitated to him, and for the first time in my life, I finally felt safe. We were married, after dating less than a year, and I gave birth to three more beautiful children. After being married, for two years, that's when the abuse started. It started with the verbal abuse and gradually expended to physical abuse. I hid the black eyes and swollen faces from my family and friends. I felt as though I had nowhere to go. I was a woman with five children, one who had severe special-needs, and no money or resources. I was able to make a plan, and find a way to safely remove myself and my children out of that terrible situation. Today, I am an advocate for women who continue to suffer in silence. I am an advocate for children, who are neglected or abused as I was. Today I am a strong, educated single mother, who has a large, beautiful family, all for me to love. I have overcome so many obstacles in my life, and I am determined, and will not start until I obtain the masters degree that I have always dreamed of. I am a success. I am the true being of what overcoming adversities looks like. I am strong, I am confident and I am healed.

My name is Latriece Anderson, and I am a first year graduate student at Walden University. After 20 years of doubting myself, and feeling, as if I would not be able to endure, I made a decision to pursue my lifelong dream of becoming a clinical psychologist. Presently, I work as a foster care, social work supervisor with Lutheran services in Carolinas. Working in the field of foster care should be extremely difficult for social workers are positions of witnessing children, being abused, sexually, verbally, and physically and so many children are blatantly neglected on a regular basis. I am a mother of five and I have two beautiful grandchildren. My second daughter was born with cerebral palsy. I was a teen mother I wish I gave birth to my first child, at the age of 17. I wasn't even finished high school whenever I became a mom. When I gave birth to my second daughter, I was 19 years old. As a teen mom of two children, one with severe special-needs life and itself, we came extremely difficult for me. When my daughter was one years old, she began to have grand mal seizures. We later learned that she is also deaf and nonverbal. I remember thinking to myself how am 1, a mother of two who is barely educated, going to take care of children, who God blessed me with. I felt the need to be protected, and I wanted to feel safe. Growing up as a child, my father was terribly addicted to drugs and alcohol. As a young girl, l've seen so many things, and I always felt so exposed and unprotected. I met who became my husband at the age of 20. He was nine years older than me, and I think because of our age difference, I gravitated to him, and for the first time in my life, I finally felt safe. We were married, after dating less than a year, and I gave birth to three more beautiful children. After being married, for two years, that's when the abuse started. It started with the verbal abuse and gradually expended to physical abuse. I hid the black eyes and swollen faces from my family and friends. I felt as though I had nowhere to go. I was a woman with five children, one who had severe special-needs, and no money or resources. I was able to make a plan, and find a way to safely remove myself and my children out of that terrible situation. Today, I am an advocate for women who continue to suffer in silence. I am an advocate for children, who are neglected or abused as I was. Today I am a strong, educated single mother, who has a large, beautiful family, all for me to love. I have overcome so many obstacles in my life, and I am determined, and will not start until I obtain the masters degree that I have always dreamed of. I am a success. I am the true being of what overcoming adversities looks like. I am strong, I am confident and I am healed.

My name is Latriece Anderson, and I am a first year graduate student at Walden University. After 20 years of doubting myself, and feeling, as if I would not be able to endure, I made a decision to pursue my lifelong dream of becoming a clinical psychologist. Presently, I work as a foster care, social work supervisor with Lutheran services in Carolinas. Working in the field of foster care should be extremely difficult for social workers are positions of witnessing children, being abused, sexually, verbally, and physically and so many children are blatantly neglected on a regular basis. I am a mother of five and I have two beautiful grandchildren. My second daughter was born with cerebral palsy. I was a teen mother I wish I gave birth to my first child, at the age of 17. I wasn't even finished high school whenever I became a mom. When I gave birth to my second daughter, I was 19 years old. As a teen mom of two children, one with severe special-needs life and itself, we came extremely difficult for me. When my daughter was one years old, she began to have grand mal seizures. We later learned that she is also deaf and nonverbal. I remember thinking to myself how am 1, a mother of two who is barely educated, going to take care of children, who God blessed me with. I felt the need to be protected, and I wanted to feel safe. Growing up as a child, my father was terribly addicted to drugs and alcohol. As a young girl, l've seen so many things, and I always felt so exposed and unprotected. I met who became my husband at the age of 20. He was nine years older than me, and I think because of our age difference, I gravitated to him, and for the first time in my life, I finally felt safe. We were married, after dating less than a year, and I gave birth to three more beautiful children. After being married, for two years, that's when the abuse started. It started with the verbal abuse and gradually expended to physical abuse. I hid the black eyes and swollen faces from my family and friends. I felt as though I had nowhere to go. I was a woman with five children, one who had severe special-needs, and no money or resources. I was able to make a plan, and find a way to safely remove myself and my children out of that terrible situation. Today, I am an advocate for women who continue to suffer in silence. I am an advocate for children, who are neglected or abused as I was. Today I am a strong, educated single mother, who has a large, beautiful family, all for me to love. I have overcome so many obstacles in my life, and I am determined, and will not start until I obtain the masters degree that I have always dreamed of. I am a success. I am the true being of what overcoming adversities looks like. I am strong, I am confident and I am healed.

My name is Latriece Anderson, and I am a first year graduate student at Walden University. After 20 years of doubting myself, and feeling, as if I would not be able to endure, I made a decision to pursue my lifelong dream of becoming a clinical psychologist. Presently, I work as a foster care, social work supervisor with Lutheran services in Carolinas. Working in the field of foster care should be extremely difficult for social workers are positions of witnessing children, being abused, sexually, verbally, and physically and so many children are blatantly neglected on a regular basis. I am a mother of five and I have two beautiful grandchildren. My second daughter was born with cerebral palsy. I was a teen mother I wish I gave birth to my first child, at the age of 17. I wasn't even finished high school whenever I became a mom. When I gave birth to my second daughter, I was 19 years old. As a teen mom of two children, one with severe special-needs life and itself, we came extremely difficult for me. When my daughter was one years old, she began to have grand mal seizures. We later learned that she is also deaf and nonverbal. I remember thinking to myself how am 1, a mother of two who is barely educated, going to take care of children, who God blessed me with. I felt the need to be protected, and I wanted to feel safe. Growing up as a child, my father was terribly addicted to drugs and alcohol. As a young girl, l've seen so many things, and I always felt so exposed and unprotected. I met who became my husband at the age of 20. He was nine years older than me, and I think because of our age difference, I gravitated to him, and for the first time in my life, I finally felt safe. We were married, after dating less than a year, and I gave birth to three more beautiful children. After being married, for two years, that's when the abuse started. It started with the verbal abuse and gradually expended to physical abuse. I hid the black eyes and swollen faces from my family and friends. I felt as though I had nowhere to go. I was a woman with five children, one who had severe special-needs, and no money or resources. I was able to make a plan, and find a way to safely remove myself and my children out of that terrible situation. Today, I am an advocate for women who continue to suffer in silence. I am an advocate for children, who are neglected or abused as I was. Today I am a strong, educated single mother, who has a large, beautiful family, all for me to love. I have overcome so many obstacles in my life, and I am determined, and will not start until I obtain the masters degree that I have always dreamed of. I am a success. I am the true being of what overcoming adversities looks like. I am strong, I am confident and I am healed.

My name is Latriece Anderson, and I am a first year graduate student at Walden University. After 20 years of doubting myself, and feeling, as if I would not be able to endure, I made a decision to pursue my lifelong dream of becoming a clinical psychologist. Presently, I work as a foster care, social work supervisor with Lutheran services in Carolinas. Working in the field of foster care should be extremely difficult for social workers are positions of witnessing children, being abused, sexually, verbally, and physically and so many children are blatantly neglected on a regular basis. I am a mother of five and I have two beautiful grandchildren. My second daughter was born with cerebral palsy. I was a teen mother I wish I gave birth to my first child, at the age of 17. I wasn't even finished high school whenever I became a mom. When I gave birth to my second daughter, I was 19 years old. As a teen mom of two children, one with severe special-needs life and itself, we came extremely difficult for me. When my daughter was one years old, she began to have grand mal seizures. We later learned that she is also deaf and nonverbal. I remember thinking to myself how am 1, a mother of two who is barely educated, going to take care of children, who God blessed me with. I felt the need to be protected, and I wanted to feel safe. Growing up as a child, my father was terribly addicted to drugs and alcohol. As a young girl, l've seen so many things, and I always felt so exposed and unprotected. I met who became my husband at the age of 20. He was nine years older than me, and I think because of our age difference, I gravitated to him, and for the first time in my life, I finally felt safe. We were married, after dating less than a year, and I gave birth to three more beautiful children. After being married, for two years, that's when the abuse started. It started with the verbal abuse and gradually expended to physical abuse. I hid the black eyes and swollen faces from my family and friends. I felt as though I had nowhere to go. I was a woman with five children, one who had severe special-needs, and no money or resources. I was able to make a plan, and find a way to safely remove myself and my children out of that terrible situation. Today, I am an advocate for women who continue to suffer in silence. I am an advocate for children, who are neglected or abused as I was. Today I am a strong, educated single mother, who has a large, beautiful family, all for me to love. I have overcome so many obstacles in my life, and I am determined, and will not start until I obtain the masters degree that I have always dreamed of. I am a success. I am the true being of what overcoming adversities looks like. I am strong, I am confident and I am healed. It took me so long to get to the place that I am in life right now. From growing up for with an addicted father, to sliding through high school, and becoming a mother, my senior year, to living in the housing projects, trying to make away and survive for me and my daughter. All my life, I’ve searched for me, and who I am as a person, as a woman, and as a mother. I have learned that life is not easy and sometimes we go through some rough spots, some more than others. I remember nursing my black eyes and trying to apply make up on my face so my children would not see. I remember waking up in the hospital with concussions, and as I looked at my face in that mirror, I didn’t even recognize who it was. I remember running through the woods at 2 o’clock in the morning trying to get to safety hoping and praying that someone will open the door for me and let me in. There was no door that was open, there was no safe place for me to go, and having a child, with severe special needs limited my ability to leave at a spare of the moment. I understand now that a lot of the decisions I made, while I was younger And the circumstances I allowed myself to be in was all because I did not know who I was, and had no idea of what made me beautiful. It took me two decades to decide to go back to school to pursue my masters degree. I’ve always doubt it myself and doubted my abilities but today I stand sure, and I know exactly who I am. I had to learn through therapy, through prayer, and by the grace of God to forgive. I had to learn that there is a difference when it comes to forgiving. Some people can say they forget is, but they are still holding on to that little piece of anger. I had to learn how to forgive with no strings attached, to love the people who hurt me most into pray that God has mercy on their souls. I am not perfect in no way, shape or form. I take pride in the achievements, My Children has made. Although my oldest daughter basically grew up with me and everything I taught her is simply by trial and error, she is now an amazing trauma, ICU nurse. I take pride in knowing that throughout all of my mess, I raised a wonderful woman. I look at my daughter who has special needs, and I watch her smile, even when she should be hurt. I listen to her laugh, even though she can’t speak. I used to always say that all I wanted to do was just hear her say mom just once, just one time. But I accepted the fact that that day will probably never come, but I know, without a doubt in my mind, she knows exactly who her mother is. I gain strength from my past. I gain knowledge, understanding, and empathy because of my past. I speak to women Who continue to live in that vicious cycle of abuse and neglect. I pray for them, and I make sure I let them now that, regardless of what decision they make if they stay, or if they go, I would never judge them. A person can never overcome obstacles until they are ready to do so. We can try our best, have them involuntarily committed, call the police, but at the end of the day, they will always return until they are ready to finally walk away. My goal is to pursue my masters degree in psychology and follow that degree with my doctorate. I would like to continue my passion and my work with women and children , and be an example that there is a way out and there is a safe place. We just have to find it. Strength for me is not in the physical. To me, strength is knowledge, education, life experiences, and overcoming adversity’s. The purpose of me applying for this particular grant is because I am honestly having such a difficult time with financing, my college education and trying to take care of my children as a single parent. Child support, I have no clue what that is. I did not receive any support to help me take care of my kids. I am all that they have, and just knowing that, as a fact, gives me even more strength to succeed, and to win. I am not , a person who gives up easily. I am going to fight, I am going to find a way, and I’m going to show my children that there is more to life than struggling and living paycheck to paycheck. Unfortunately, I haven’t had the pleasure of knowing , what it feels like not to have to struggle and not to have to worry, but hopefully one day, I will be able to know what that feels like. In the meantime, I invest all of my energy, all of my time in all of me important into my children And remind them every day that they are loved and they are wanted. I am a firm believer that everyone of us has a purpose and has a reason. I pray that I would be able to financially sustain myself and complete my goal as it relates to my education. I am willing to fight and do whatever is necessary to make sure that that dream comes true. I want to not only prove anything is possible to myself, but I also want other women who struggle just like me to know you can do it. Unfortunately, I didn’t have a college fund set up in my parents are not financially able to help me throughout school. I do this for a purpose and for a goal. No matter how hard it gets,how tired I become, and no matter how many times I want to give up, I never will because I am a winner.

My name is Latriece Anderson, and I am a first year graduate student at Walden University. After 20 years of doubting myself, and feeling, as if I would not be able to endure, I made a decision to pursue my lifelong dream of becoming a clinical psychologist. Presently, I work as a foster care, social work supervisor with Lutheran services in Carolinas. Working in the field of foster care should be extremely difficult for social workers are positions of witnessing children, being abused, sexually, verbally, and physically and so many children are blatantly neglected on a regular basis. I am a mother of five and I have two beautiful grandchildren. My second daughter was born with cerebral palsy. I was a teen mother I wish I gave birth to my first child, at the age of 17. I wasn't even finished high school whenever I became a mom. When I gave birth to my second daughter, I was 19 years old. As a teen mom of two children, one with severe special-needs life and itself, we came extremely difficult for me. When my daughter was one years old, she began to have grand mal seizures. We later learned that she is also deaf and nonverbal. I remember thinking to myself how am 1, a mother of two who is barely educated, going to take care of children, who God blessed me with. I felt the need to be protected, and I wanted to feel safe. Growing up as a child, my father was terribly addicted to drugs and alcohol. As a young girl, l've seen so many things, and I always felt so exposed and unprotected. I met who became my husband at the age of 20. He was nine years older than me, and I think because of our age difference, I gravitated to him, and for the first time in my life, I finally felt safe. We were married, after dating less than a year, and I gave birth to three more beautiful children. After being married, for two years, that's when the abuse started. It started with the verbal abuse and gradually expended to physical abuse. I hid the black eyes and swollen faces from my family and friends. I felt as though I had nowhere to go. I was a woman with five children, one who had severe special-needs, and no money or resources. I was able to make a plan, and find a way to safely remove myself and my children out of that terrible situation. Today, I am an advocate for women who continue to suffer in silence. I am an advocate for children, who are neglected or abused as I was. Today I am a strong, educated single mother, who has a large, beautiful family, all for me to love. I have overcome so many obstacles in my life, and I am determined, and will not start until I obtain the masters degree that I have always dreamed of. I am a success. I am the true being of what overcoming adversities looks like. I am strong, I am confident and I am healed.

My name is Latriece Anderson, and I am a first year graduate student at Walden University. After 20 years of doubting myself, and feeling, as if I would not be able to endure, I made a decision to pursue my lifelong dream of becoming a clinical psychologist. Presently, I work as a foster care, social work supervisor with Lutheran services in Carolinas. Working in the field of foster care should be extremely difficult for social workers are positions of witnessing children, being abused, sexually, verbally, and physically and so many children are blatantly neglected on a regular basis. I am a mother of five and I have two beautiful grandchildren. My second daughter was born with cerebral palsy. I was a teen mother I wish I gave birth to my first child, at the age of 17. I wasn't even finished high school whenever I became a mom. When I gave birth to my second daughter, I was 19 years old. As a teen mom of two children, one with severe special-needs life and itself, we came extremely difficult for me. When my daughter was one years old, she began to have grand mal seizures. We later learned that she is also deaf and nonverbal. I remember thinking to myself how am 1, a mother of two who is barely educated, going to take care of children, who God blessed me with. I felt the need to be protected, and I wanted to feel safe. Growing up as a child, my father was terribly addicted to drugs and alcohol. As a young girl, l've seen so many things, and I always felt so exposed and unprotected. I met who became my husband at the age of 20. He was nine years older than me, and I think because of our age difference, I gravitated to him, and for the first time in my life, I finally felt safe. We were married, after dating less than a year, and I gave birth to three more beautiful children. After being married, for two years, that's when the abuse started. It started with the verbal abuse and gradually expended to physical abuse. I hid the black eyes and swollen faces from my family and friends. I felt as though I had nowhere to go. I was a woman with five children, one who had severe special-needs, and no money or resources. I was able to make a plan, and find a way to safely remove myself and my children out of that terrible situation. Today, I am an advocate for women who continue to suffer in silence. I am an advocate for children, who are neglected or abused as I was. Today I am a strong, educated single mother, who has a large, beautiful family, all for me to love. I have overcome so many obstacles in my life, and I am determined, and will not start until I obtain the masters degree that I have always dreamed of. I am a success. I am the true being of what overcoming adversities looks like. I am strong, I am confident and I am healed.

My name is Latriece Anderson, and I am a first year graduate student at Walden University. After 20 years of doubting myself, and feeling, as if I would not be able to endure, I made a decision to pursue my lifelong dream of becoming a clinical psychologist. Presently, I work as a foster care, social work supervisor with Lutheran services in Carolinas. Working in the field of foster care should be extremely difficult for social workers are positions of witnessing children, being abused, sexually, verbally, and physically and so many children are blatantly neglected on a regular basis. I am a mother of five and I have two beautiful grandchildren. My second daughter was born with cerebral palsy. I was a teen mother I wish I gave birth to my first child, at the age of 17. I wasn't even finished high school whenever I became a mom. When I gave birth to my second daughter, I was 19 years old. As a teen mom of two children, one with severe special-needs life and itself, we came extremely difficult for me. When my daughter was one years old, she began to have grand mal seizures. We later learned that she is also deaf and nonverbal. I remember thinking to myself how am 1, a mother of two who is barely educated, going to take care of children, who God blessed me with. I felt the need to be protected, and I wanted to feel safe. Growing up as a child, my father was terribly addicted to drugs and alcohol. As a young girl, l've seen so many things, and I always felt so exposed and unprotected. I met who became my husband at the age of 20. He was nine years older than me, and I think because of our age difference, I gravitated to him, and for the first time in my life, I finally felt safe. We were married, after dating less than a year, and I gave birth to three more beautiful children. After being married, for two years, that's when the abuse started. It started with the verbal abuse and gradually expended to physical abuse. I hid the black eyes and swollen faces from my family and friends. I felt as though I had nowhere to go. I was a woman with five children, one who had severe special-needs, and no money or resources. I was able to make a plan, and find a way to safely remove myself and my children out of that terrible situation. Today, I am an advocate for women who continue to suffer in silence. I am an advocate for children, who are neglected or abused as I was. Today I am a strong, educated single mother, who has a large, beautiful family, all for me to love. I have overcome so many obstacles in my life, and I am determined, and will not start until I obtain the masters degree that I have always dreamed of. I am a success. I am the true being of what overcoming adversities looks like. I am strong, I am confident and I am healed.