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Shelley Johnson is the founder and executive director of Rise Above for Youth, a nonprofit organization that helps youth in foster care transition into society.

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When Shelley Johnson started researching the American foster-care system 10 years ago, she was shocked to discover that 500,000 children did not have stable homes.

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