Safe Housing for Transition-Age Foster Youth (A Status Update)

Note: This blog post is a follow up to an initial post from June, which pertains to an initiative we’ve been working on with The RightWay Foundation since the onset of the pandemic.

Our family wants to thank everyone who tagged companies in my recent Instagram posts about The RightWay Foundation’s efforts to secure safe housing for transition-age foster youth.

Because of your responses to these social media posts, brands have taken note and delivered donations or committed to doing so.

Not only do these donations help by getting wonderful transition-age foster youth some of the items they need for a functional home and a healthy life, but they also allow RightWay to allocate their resources towards vital services such as mental health care, rent assistance, trauma-informed training, and job placement.

Here are a few companies we want to thank specifically for their contributions. (I hope to be able to circle back soon to add/thank more companies for further donations in yet another follow-up post.)

MATTRESSES
Avocado Mattress took note and committed to donating mattresses (among other essential sleep items) to RightWay in an ongoing capacity, starting as early as next week. (On a related side-note, we have an Avocado Green Mattress here at the Cottage, and we absolutely love it, and appreciate the brand’s commitment to the environment.)

Above: Our Avocado Green Mattress in the Cottage (captured as part of a past partnership with MindBodyGreen.) Avocado will be donating mattresses to The RightWay Foundation.

SOFAS
With the help of The Revery LA by Monica Wang, Jonathan Louis donated seven new, beautiful sofas to RightWay! Some of the youth have already begun to receive the couches in their apartments, and Franco, the Founder & Director of RightWay recorded a Thank You video for these contributions, here.

Above: Jonathan Louis sofas at The Revery for a photoshoot before being donated to RightWay.

BASKETS
Will & Atlas donated 20 of their gorgeous black jute baskets for the apartments. (We have a few of their baskets in another style, which that we initially got for West’s closet nursery, and we still use them daily.)

BOWLS & PLATES
OurPlace, a brand I admire for their ethical labor practices and clever, space-savvy Always Pan, are sending their stylish bowl and plate sets.

CUTLERY & CERAMICS
Fable is donating much-needed cutlery and ceramics, and we’re in talks with them to hopefully help RightWay acquire rolling donations of their surplus goods from previous seasons.

MUGS
Created Co. will be sending RightWay their delightful mugs for the youth in their new apartments.

TWIN-SIZE BEDDING
Dusen Dusen kindly sent numerous bright and playful twin bedding sets.

In addition to the above, several individuals have gifted items, from new oven mitts and tea towels, to beds, to AC units.  And I’m sharing the following for the sake of accountability: our small business recently wrote a $1,000 check to RightWay with some of the money earned through our recent paid partnerships on Instagram.

Thank you to this community for your support, and you to the brands who are showing up to support foster youth.