African-American former foster child releases biography during National Foster Care Appreciation Month

Shane Salter, CEO and founder of CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) for Children of DC, will release to the public his long awaited biography, Trouble Don't Last Always — When a child becomes a 4-year old parent at a book signing in Washington, DC on Monday, May 23, 2005 at The Thurgood Marshall Center for Service and Heritage, located at 1816 12th Street, NW. He will read excerpts from Trouble Don't Last Always — When a child becomes a 4-year old parent and relive the details of his childhood and how he rose above it to achieve his dreams.

May is National Foster Care Appreciation Month and what better way to celebrate than with this powerful biography of a person who overcame so much and has asked for nothing in return.

In Trouble Don't Last Always — When a child becomes a 4-year old parent Shane Salter, tells how he was born to a teenage mother whose hopes and dreams for her son were shattered by her own drug addition. At the age of four, Shane was thrust into parenting his younger brother when his mother walked out on him. He was found by a police officer and was placed in his first of many foster homes. The story at this point just begins.

“What an amazing story, my eyes watered numerous times because of sadness and happiness...”
“Eye opening! I really needed to know what it was like to be a youngster growing up in the system.”
These are just a few of the comments made after Shane told his story a recent conference.

Prior to assuming Shane Salter's role at CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) for Children of DC, he served in the administration of Washington, DC's Mayor Anthony Williams as Chief of Staff for the Office of Children, Youth, Families and Elders. He has held positions as Director of Foundation Giving at the Freddie Mac Foundation, National Director of the Marriott Foundation For People with Disabilities: Bridges.... from School to Work, Deputy Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer at For Love of Children (FLOC); a comprehensive community based non- profit. At For Love of Children, he successfully lead a full-scale restructuring of all agency programs and operating systems while providing programmatic oversight for foster care, neighborhood tutoring, youth development, transitional housing and an alternative school for severely emotionally disabled students. He has seven children, four of them adopted.

When the system wrote him off, could they have thought that someday this baby boy would walk among children, mayors and presidents? For more information on Salter visit http://www.troubledontlastalways.com

Distribution Source : U.S. Newswire
17 May 2005

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