When Sabrina Shah was a junior in high school in Johns Creek, she mentored a girl a few years younger than she was who opened up to her about bouncing around seven or eight different foster homes, meeting a whirlwind of social workers and sometimes even going to court to speak to a judge.
It was no wonder, then, to Shah that this 10-year-old was struggling to focus in school.
“Her first priority was, ‘When am I going to see my parents again? When am I going to go back home?'” Shah said. “These children, they have so many worries and so much anxiety. She was really dealing with a lot of that.”
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