Strengthening Outcomes in Child Welfare

We help youth in transitional care build belonging, stability, and lifelong support so they can thrive in adulthood.

The Launch Lab is a powerful development incubator created by a founder with lived experience of childhood neglect and adversity, that is grounded in three decades of leadership development. The Lab delivers the foundational conditions that provide real permanency, safety, and wellbeing.

‍3 Solutions. 1 Mission. Reimagining Child Welfare.

Launching Youth Directly | Develop Leaders and Teams | Rapidly Transform Outcomes

The Challenge ‍

Over 80,000 youth are at risk of entering adulthood without family, belonging, or reliable support.

Despite billions invested in housing, education, and employment, many still struggle because the foundational conditions required to thrive are missing.

Without these foundations, the human and economic cost is enormous.

Delivering What Is Missing

Most programs deliver services.

The Launch Lab strengthens the foundational conditions that determine whether those services actually endure.

Built from:

• Lived experience

• Three decades of leadership-development optimization

• The insights captured in Launchpad: Remove Blocks to Release Potential

The model systematically removes the blocks that limit engagement and impact, delivering the nine missing elements that every young person needs to thrive.

The 9 Missing Elements

Connection:

• Permanent Engagement Hub

• Belonging

• Embedded Support

Development:

• Integrated Care

• Community

• Identity Development *

Launch:

• Leadership Skills *

• High-Performance Optimization Pathways

• Abundant Opportunities

  *Intellectual Property that enables rapid transformation and engagement with personalized development paths that accelerate releasing potential.

The Outcome

Youth never have to age out of care, belonging, or support.

They gain enduring relationships, personalized identity and leadership-based development, and the ability to become healthy, self-sufficient leaders.

About Heather Lyn

Heather Lyn Omtvedt is the author of Launchpad, a leadership-development strategist, and the visionary behind The Launch Lab and trk: The Remarkable Kingdom.

Through Time to Soar, she helps youth, leaders, and organizations remove hidden barriers and rapidly transform outcomes.

The Opportunity

Youth do not fail to launch because they lack services.

They struggle because they lack the foundational conditions needed to stabilize as detailed in Launchpad.

When the foundation stabilizes:

• Confidence grows.

• Purpose emerges.

• Communities strengthen.

• Generational cycles break.

The Launch Lab is ready to deploy now.

The need is urgent.

The opportunity is extraordinary.

Join the Mission

State and Child Welfare Leaders

Implement a proven framework that delivers stronger, lasting outcomes for youth transitioning to adulthood.

Philanthropic/Strategic Partners

Invest in a scalable model with generational impact.

Supporters of Youth

Purchase Launchpad to help fuel the mission.

Leadership Development

1:1 transformational sessions or organizational leadership development to rapidly remove the blocks to release potential.

Are you ready for lift off?