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 15 years, The RightWay Foundation 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.

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Operation X is a paid work experience program for young people who’ve faced tough challenges. Instead of a high-pressure interview, we start with direct placement in a real job experience of around 100 hours with a supportive small local business, where each young person is coached, not tested. The result is real skills, real confidence, and real references that lead to jobs. It’s a simple shift that unlocks potential. 

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.