The Launch Lab
What Sets Us Apart
Teenagers are young adults that think they are adults. Their interest in adults is nearly non existent and that level often depends on how much that adult is relevant to supporting their desires.
That can be a hard pill to swallow but that isn’t the hardest aspect. When you add in apathy from trauma it becomes 100x more difficult to actually reach them.
How do I know this? Because that was me.
Adults thought I was mostly okay. They thought they were reaching me. They weren’t. They couldn’t. Apathy had made a home inside of me. The lights were out and no one knew.
To reach me you had to be ultra relevant and no adult successfully was able to deliver on that kind of relevance.
My inner state wasn’t easily recognizable. There was no way to truly know because I appeared functional enough. Inside, I was as checked out as checked out could be but capable enough to fool everyone, including myself. That was my normal and it wasn’t great.
To engage, empower, and equip youth with complex upbringings, this understanding is a good starting point.
Next involves understanding is that motivation follows desire. Their desires, not yours. Surveys have been done. They care about clothes.
They may comply with adult agendas when they have to but that doesn’t mean they are actually absorbing a thing or invested.
If a person can’t help them immediately they might become irrelevant. They are working to find their own way. If you can help them with this, they might become more interested.
Youth will be prone to repeat what was modeled. That might not be great. That is to be expected.
Few have bridged the gaps between high functioning and other forms of functional. This model closes them so youth can reach their full potential and become tomorrow’s world changers.
Experience researchers at Forrester found that for an experience to be positive it needs these 3 factors in harmony: ease, effectiveness, and connects emotionally.
The stability ship has sailed for most of these youth and what life looks like for them going forward might not feel comforting but this isn’t their fault. For many that isn’t going to change. They need to have the option to SOAR into their potential (less than 10% do) because without embedded supports, they often get forced into the bottom right quadrant now. This must stop and can be prevented. they deserve better options. None of these quadrants discriminate. Not one of the paths is easy. They all have their own unique challenges.
The Quadrants to Potential explained:
8% optimize to be, do, and connect remarkably well,
some spike high and low like an EKG because they want more than societal approved norms but don’t yet know how to SOAR,
65% comply to fit in, and
unfortunately some lose hope, control, or don’t have the embedded supports they need to launch successfully.
THIS MODEL SERVES TO CHANGE THIS BY GIVING THE YOUTH WHAT THEY NEED AND MOBILIZING THEM TO CREATE CHANGE INSIDE THE SYSTEM AT LARGE TO PROVIDE MORE SUPPORTIVE OPTIONS THAT SUSTAIN THEIR SUCCESS.
Youth-Centered Approach
Helping youth succeed is the goal. Although there are compliance check lists, to-do’s that need to be managed, fires that need to be managed, and the list goes on, our focus is helping youth:
Having a Plan
Removing As Many Blocks That Can Hinder Success Proactively
Teams that knows what to do to effectively manage the obstacles that arise, and has the ability to activate the supports, resources, and stability needed to provide resolution.
Access 24×7 that enhances wellbeing, provides opportunity to overcome obstacles skillfully, and become effective at problem solving. (A lot of personalized identity and leadership-based development exercises make this level of personalization much easier to manage.)
A team that is ready to coordinate placements, housing assistance with new placements, rapid resource deployment, de-escalation, reporting, risk mitigation training development, response protocols, collaboration among partners, problem solving,
A Focus on Quality and Relevance
1. Youth will have access to Open Virtual Office Hours 2 Hours A Day M-F (in the early day and towards the close of the day) to drop in to ask questions, find resources, get support, and connect as desired.
2. Quarterly special guest speaker nights from those who overcame enormous obstacles, with stories of remarkable gone right that inspire hope and connection.
3. Youth will have unlimited access to a 24×7 assistant to go to with pressing needs that aren’t urgent to get ideas, book and club creation, get emotional or mental relief if they need to vent or get advice, tips for conflict resolution, get clarity, say what they are afraid to say to others without risk or fear, develop strategies, get clarity, and more.
4. Youth can join daily live micro learning sessions (optional) that encourage them, learn how to move what is in the way from getting the outcomes they want, get ideas, have fun, dream dreams, celebrate successes, overcome challenges, be supported, and connect.
5. Youth will have access to a robust on-demand library filled with resources that can help them get access that is relevant to their learning styles and interests with job opportunities, education paths, transportation, application, ways to create ease states (peace) instead of dis ease states (stress), drivers education, credit factors, negotiate your way to a yes or a no without fear, requirement preview checklists, interview preparation, risk prevention planning and preparation, budgets, laughter is good medicine remedies, all the ways to access 1:1 support, development resources, tutors, fast-track success and wellbeing reference guide, thinking outside of the box, the empowerment booklet, development and all the options available, comedy hacks, leadership boss moves, leadership opportunities, skill stacking sessions and resources to become resourceful (a trait that attracts opportunities), mountain moving overcoming techniques, engaging state leaders to expand learning and opportunities, mentorship and intelligence resource gathering collection, explore the 9 levels of intelligence from good to better to best , creating your unfair advantage, finding and launching your inner genius, treasure hunting expeditions, speaker training to pitch with confidence, overcoming fears, great equalizers like we all have the same time in a day but accomplish different things (why) or the dash: we all have these 3 things in common: a day we are born, a day we die, and a little dash between them (how to carpe momento if we want too), communication mastery, is this a hobby or legit opportunity, creating drift free zones, the 3 ways of remarkable, the cheat sheet on resilience, calming practices, meals on a budget, and more.
6. Youth can rate what is beneficial and what isn’t so that resources can be tailored to relevance and usability and be re-created or modified when needed.
7.Youth will be given opportunities to create and or co-create trainings if they want to.
8.Youth will get their own personalized blueprint that highlights their innate abilities, motivations, passions, interests, skills, reactionary styles, obstacles, desires, dreams, north stars, what fills their cup, where they are strong and where the difference side opposite of that, their unique strengths and how to leverage them, their goals, define what success means to them, what sends them sideways fast (resilience and regulation mastery) and other unique identifiers that are personal to who they are so they know how to align themselves to be, do, and connect remarkably well for all their days. Leadership 101 begins with knowing who they are so they don’t have to feel bad about that person, suppress themselves (leads to depression) or their gifts, and have the ability to get where they want and/or need to go to launch into their potential.
Reliability You Can Count On
We will comply with all state and federal guidelines to ensure youth and states can work effectively and efficiently at supporting youth, the teams that support the youth, and work together to enable a successful launch into adulthood.
Emphasis will be placed on collaborating with community partners to strengthen opportunities and outcomes.
Proven Process, Flexible Execution
We bring structure where it counts and adaptability where it matters. Our methods are clear, but always responsive.
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