RightWay’s core program, Operation Emancipation, begins with a 32-hour trauma-informed workshop that integrates mental health, job readiness, and financial literacy. Youth learn to manage trauma, build self-awareness, and develop skills like stress management and communication. Afterward, they gain access to therapy, housing support, job coaching, vocational training, and community. For thirteen years, RightWay has been a lifeline for system-impacted youth in Los Angeles County
“If foster youth are supported with housing and given the opportunity to become financially stable, a large source of homelessness will be stopped.”
– Franco Vega Founder / CEO

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Operation Second Chance is our mental health and job readiness program for justice-impacted, probation youth.  The program provides extra resources tailored to re-entry youth.

RightWay’s Operation Pursuit program partners with former foster youth to strive confidently toward sustaining careers and break through barriers to emotionally and financially fulfilling adult lives. For young adults in our programs who have reached an initial level of stability, Operation Pursuit provides intensive financial capability training, career counseling and career-focused trainings/opportunities, connections to apprenticeships, navigation of enrolling in higher education, professional mentorship, life-skills workshops, and healthy pastime-building activities to robustly support our RightWay young adults in building a sense of purpose and long-lasting stability.

Operation Positive Parenting provides trauma-informed support for young parents to end the cycle of trauma that sees over half of foster youth who become parents lose their children to the very system that failed them. The program empowers young parents to connect with their children through empathy and to build a nurturing environment. Parents learn positive parenting techniques for each developmental stage and how their personal traumas can affect parenting. 

Operation Guide is a mentorship program in which RightWay partners with Faith Foster Family Network to provide community members to mentor transition-age RightWay youth. In return, RightWay youth mentor younger teenage foster youth from our partner organization, Dangerfield Institute of Urban Problems. The program is a one year commitment with the aim to create lifelong bonds.