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Foster Care Ends at 18 With a Trash Bag and Nowhere to Go
Foster care ended for one young woman on her 18th birthday: dropped off in downtown Houston with no money, no phone, no ID, drawing paper from a bowl for a shelter bed she didn't get. That text changed everything for Stacy Johnson — who entered care at two, survived nine placements, and emancipated herself at sixteen.
Now Founder/CEO of Central Texas Table of Grace and a TEDx speaker, she's raising the last $1.8 million of a $15 million campus serving kids from zero to 21-plus. She breaks down why housing alone fails, why kids don't need perfect homes — just stable ones — and what one…
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