An uplifting story about a Bama Student who beat the Foster Care Odds

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<p>[Find</a> Your Passion: Student Beats the Foster-Care Odds - The University of Alabama](<a href=“http://ua.edu/features/findyourpassion/fostercare.html]Find”>http://ua.edu/features/findyourpassion/fostercare.html)</p>

<p>Full story above…</p>

<p>Student Beats the Foster-Care Odds</p>

<p>The sophomore from Bessemer grew up under the foster care system, and he says he has made it his mission to show the world what can be achieved by those from foster care backgrounds.</p>

<p>“I think as foster or adoptive children, we place limits on ourselves because of the situations we are in. My goal is to destroy that particular mentality by erasing any doubts about our abilities,” he says.</p>

<p>Thanks to help from the Terry and Nick Saban First in Family Scholarship, the Hill Crest Foundation, and the Orphan Foundation of America, Hudson says he is able to focus on his goal of becoming a first-generation college graduate.</p>

<p>A social work and psychology major, Hudson has a plan. He says he wants to earn his master’s degree in social work and then apply to UA’s Law School so he can one day be a family court judge.</p>

<p>“By becoming a family court circuit judge, I will be able to help mold youth into productive citizens,” Hudson says.</p>

<p>~snipped~</p>

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<p>very cool…</p>