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Turning Ideas Into Action
Explore Our Field Labs
Dive into our labs to see how we bring people together to share knowledge, build skills, enhance confidence, and amplify diverse voices.
Our labs focus on making meaningful connections first, fostering innovation, and building within an interconnected community process—ensuring that those impacted by life and career systems are central to developing solutions.
Youth Empowerment Labs
Providing tools and frameworks to navigate life and career transitions with confidence and purpose.
Life and Career Launching Labs
Support Life2Launch's NextGen creative team members from priority populations through our mentoring, coaching, internships, apprenticeships, and financial assistance. These efforts empower young creatives to thrive personally and professionally while driving impactful projects.
Empowered NextGen youth to design and launch a one-stop technology solution for life and career tools and resources based on research and insights from previous field labs.
Our Navigation Tool Receives Top Honors at Start-up Bootcamp
Leadership Labs: NextGen Social Enterprise
Development
Empowered NextGen youth to design and launch Life2Launch as a social enterprise startup, focused on innovating and building generational bridges to transform the school-to-life and career-launching process.
Holistic Life-Launching Road Map Framework and Resources
Developed a foundational framework that supports changemakers of all ages by organizing, curating, and distributing tools and resources to build capacity, awareness, and skills for fostering meaningful relationships within communities, workplaces, and educational settings.
Workforce Development Labs
Equipping youth, organizations, and professionals with the skills and capacity to evolve with the changing workforce.
Youth-Driven Solutions
Oregon’s Workforce Conference
For the past two years, Life2Launch Institute has provided a platform for NextGen youth to exhibit at Oregon’s Workforce Conference. These exhibits empower Oregon youth to connect, share insights, and collaborate on innovative life and career preparedness solutions—designed and driven by youth themselves.
NextGen Social Media Toolkits for Workforce Providers
Developed social media toolkits to help workforce providers create relatable and authentic pathways for connecting with NextGen youth, sharing internships and resources effectively.
Community Resilence Labs
Empowering youth to build stronger ecosystems to foster collaboration, equity, and innovation.
Artist Storytelling Lab
Youth-led and produced an Oregon artist documentary series highlighting lived experiences and alternative career pathways for young creatives.
Preschool for All Awareness
Supported community organizations through impactful video projects youth-led and produced, including raising awareness and funding for childcare centers with the African Immigrants and Refugees Organization (CAIRO) and scaling childcare provider training programs with Social Venture Partners (SVP).
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NextGen-Aligned Skill-Building Workshops for Service Providers
Collaborated with youth empowerment organizations to design and deliver relatable skill-building workshops and training sessions. Equipping service providers to better connect with and support youth in their life and career development journeys.
Empowering NextGen Leadership for Community Transformation
Enabled Oregon youth to design tech solutions and innovative marketing strategies for confident life launches. Provided a platform to collaborate with schools, businesses, and non-profits, amplifying voices impacted by systemic barriers and ensuring they shape transformative solutions.