Your Road to Independence
Four core programs designed to take you from self-discovery to real independence. Pick your destination, map your route, get behind the wheel, and meet with your pit crew.
Pick Your Destination
Discover your path forward
Most foster youth age out of the system without ever having been taught how to plan for their future. Pick Your Destination is the first step — a program designed to help you explore who you are, discover what matters to you, and get clear on where you want to go. Through self-discovery, career exploration, and goal-setting, you'll build a vision for your future that's uniquely yours.
What participants learn:
- Self-discovery: explore your values, strengths, and interests
- Education and career pathway exploration
- Goal-setting framework and vision creation
- Understanding different life paths and their possibilities
Map Your Route
Build the practical skills to get there
Once you know where you want to go, it's time to build the skills and knowledge to get there. Map Your Route is an intensive program that covers everything you need to navigate adult life: managing finances, understanding healthcare, finding safe housing, and mastering digital literacy in a world of online threats. You'll learn practical skills, access AI-powered planning tools, and develop the confidence to handle real-world challenges independently.
What participants learn:
- Financial literacy, budgeting, and banking fundamentals
- Healthcare navigation and self-advocacy skills
- Housing search, tenant rights, and lease understanding
- Digital literacy and secure technology habits
- Online safety, privacy protection, and identity security
- Recognizing online manipulation and predatory patterns
Get Behind the Wheel
Get real driving experience. Build confidence. Take control of your independence.
Once you've picked your destination and mapped the route, it's time to take the wheel and drive forward. Get Behind the Wheel is where you build real experience and practical skills to execute your roadmap. At the core is actual driving experience — supervised sessions with experienced mentors who'll help you earn your license and become a safe, confident driver. Beyond the road, you'll develop the communication, financial, social, and professional skills you need to navigate adulthood and pursue the training and opportunities that matter to you. Your mentors are there for all of it: helping you practice driving, advocate for yourself, manage your money, build your resume, and take action on your goals.
What participants learn:
- Supervised driving sessions with experienced Driving Mentors to build confidence and safety
- Learner's permit study support and professional drivers training
- Vehicle ownership, maintenance, car buying, and insurance basics
- Financial literacy, budgeting, credit, and investing fundamentals
- Communication, advocacy, and professional social skills development
- Networking, collaboration, leadership, and cultural competence
- Career readiness: resume building, interview prep, and job search strategies
- One-on-one mentorship for driving, skills development, and life guidance
Meet with your Pit Crew
A safe space where you belong and find your people.
Your Pit Crew is a consistent, welcoming space—physical and community-based—where you can show up and just be. It's where life actually happens: projects get worked on, conversations happen over something to do with your hands, people show up without needing a reason. Over time, the people you find there become your pit crew—your people. Not because you were assigned to each other, but because you kept showing up to the same place. A community with no expiration date. The door stays open.
What participants learn:
- A consistent, welcoming safe space for community and belonging
- Peer mentorship: those further along the road helping those just starting
- Shared experiences, traditions, and lasting friendships that build over time
- A community that doesn't end when a program does. The door stays open.
Ready to Get Started?
Whether you're a teen looking for help or a supporter looking to fund our work, we'd love to hear from you.