Youth voices
If a lesson is not useful to the people in the room, it does not stay because an adult liked the worksheet.
Our mission
A future with skills, support, and a real choice.
Las Vegas foster youth support, built for the years when care ends and adulthood is supposed to begin on cue.
Mission
Cosmic Futures equips current and former foster youth with practical life skills, career preparation, supportive relationships, and access to resources so they can move into adulthood with greater stability, confidence, and choice.
Vision
We envision a future in which young people leaving foster care are not expected to navigate adulthood alone and have the skills, support, and opportunities to build lives they choose.
You should not have to figure out adulthood alone.
Current and former foster youth ages 16–24 should not have to invent transportation, a paycheck, a résumé, and a support system in the same month. Cosmic Futures exists to make those pieces teachable, local, and followed up on.
Who it is for
Clark County, on purpose.
- Young people in foster care now, ages 16–24, getting ready to step out.
- Young people who already aged out and are still building the first years of adult life.
- The agencies, caregivers, and employers who can make that first year less solitary.
This is independent-living skills and foster youth employment preparation. It is not a crisis service, a placement, or a promise that the system has been fixed.
Illustrative. The rooms we are designing feel like this: ordinary, serious, human.
How the work will be shaped
Lived experience starts it. It does not staff it alone.
Qualified practitioners
Money, work, digital safety, and adult responsibilities need people who know the subject, not only the story.
Community partners
Space, meals, jobs, headshots, and rides are how a plan survives contact with a real week.
Life skills
Documents, appointments, transportation, and the ordinary adult tasks that show up the moment care ends.
Employment
Applications, interviews, and enough practice to walk into a workplace looking like you belong there.
Financial confidence
Banking, budgets, paychecks, and a clear read on what a bill, a benefit, or a scam is actually doing.
Digital access
A working way to apply, write, learn, and be taken seriously online. Not a luxury. A door.
Education and training
Classes, credentials, and skills that open a next step — chosen, not assigned.
Supportive relationships
Adults and peers who stay after a workshop ends, so the plan has somewhere to land.