The RightWay Foundation
Nonprofit
The RightWay Foundation helps transition-age foster youth get and keep good jobs despite the overwhelming trauma they have endured throughout their lives. Our vision is that foster and justice system-involved youth have the opportunity to move from pain and disappointment to power and productivity.
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Submitted Ideas
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Idea about how to make LA a better place to live, submitted by this organization in the 2021 challenge.
Make LA the best place to LIVE
One of five LA2050 Goals
Our region’s residents have the economic means and cultural capital to lead active, healthy lives, and everyone benefits from a sustainable environment.
In 2050, Los Angeles will have the nation’s lowest obesity rates and every neighborhood will have access to healthy, affordable food. Every family will be able to afford quality health care and housing. And no families will face environmental health hazards because of where they live or how much money they make.
Operation Housing First
The RightWay Foundation is dedicated to ending the cycle of trauma that leads foster youth to unemployment, homelessness, incarceration, and poverty. RightWay’s Operation Housing First houses former foster youth (ages 18-26, 90% Black, 9% Latinx) at risk of homelessness in permanent apartments and provide intensive trauma-informed case management, mental health services, and employment services as they start their careers, process their trauma, and build healthy adulthoods. Learn more
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Idea about how to make LA a better place to create, submitted by this organization in the 2020 challenge.
Make LA the best place to CREATE
One of five LA2050 Goals
Our region empowers its residents to harness their creativity by fostering entrepreneurship, cultural diversity, and inclusivity.
In 2050, Los Angeles will continue to play host to the largest concentration of working artists in the nation and provide support to maintain (and build) its robust collection of arts establishments. It will lead the nation in manufacturing and become an international leader in technology and innovation. Our region will be a center for entrepreneurial activity that creates jobs and generates wealth for a diverse, flexible, and talented workforce. LA’s business community will reflect the diversity of our region, enhancing our international business opportunities.
Operation Emancipation
The RightWay Foundation does critical preventative work to end the pipeline from foster care to homelessness, unemployment, incarceration, and poverty by providing foster youth with mental health services, job training, community support, and connections to opportunities in the workforce. With the economy fractured due to COVID-19 and rampant homelessness, the need in Los Angeles for employment-focused mental health services for transition-age foster and reentry youth is greater than ever. Learn more
