LEARN10P Future-Ready Teens: Emotional & Sexual Wellness Developed in a Safe Place to Breathe
10P Future-Ready Teens is a groundbreaking, trauma-informed program that fuses emotional literacy with holistic sexual wellness education, empowering foster and system-impacted youth in Los Angeles to thrive. By providing a safe, supportive space for self-discovery, skill-building, and peer connection, the program equips young people with the tools to manage emotions, build healthy relationships, and make informed choices—laying the foundation for lifelong health, resilience, and leadership.
What is the primary issue area that your application will impact?
Support for foster and systems-impacted youth
In which areas of Los Angeles will you be directly working?
Central LA Long Beach South LA East LA San Fernando Valley
In what stage of innovation is this project, program, or initiative?
Pilot or new project, program, or initiative (testing or implementing a new idea)
What is your understanding of the issue that you are seeking to address?
Foster youth and system-impacted young adults in LA face intersecting challenges: trauma, anxiety, risky sexual behavior, and lack of supportive relationships. Existing programs are fragmented, punitive, or fail to address the root causes—emotional illiteracy and trauma—leaving youth without tools or support to break cycles of harm.
Describe the project, program, or initiative this grant will support to address the issue.
ELWE fuses the 10P emotional literacy and In the Flow curriculums with “A Safe Place to Breathe” sexual wellness-based modules, delivered by trauma-informed, peer-led facilitators. Weekly hybrid workshops focus on self-awareness, emotional regulation, healthy relationships, and sexual wellness. Youth Ambassadors provide mentorship; digital platforms ensure accessibility. Wraparound supports include crisis intervention, community events, and ongoing alumni engagement. The 10P’s 7 Stories Analysis Model measures growth across self-awareness, social awareness, self-management, relationship management, sexual wellness, community, and leadership. The program aims to reduce risk behaviors, increase protective factors, and empower youth leadership and provide a springboard for youth to transform their trauma into triumph and enter the work force as whole, healthy, contributing members of society.
Describe how Los Angeles County will be different if your work is successful.
Success means foster and system-impacted youth thrive—emotionally, relationally, and sexually—leading to reduced trauma, higher graduation and employment rates, and a new generation of community leaders. ELWE will be scaled through Youth Ambassador training and digital curriculum, transforming LA’s landscape for vulnerable youth
Approximately how many people will be impacted by this project, program, or initiative?
Direct Impact: 75
Indirect Impact: 500