STRiV Forward offers therapeutic transitional living for young adults ages 18-25+ struggling with independence. Located in Orem, Utah, near Salt Lake City, our students receive support for mental health, executive-functioning coaching, and life skills training to foster independence.
A Supportive Path Forward: Failure to Launch Help for Young Adults
Failure to launch refers to young and emerging adults who struggle to become independent or meet the societal expectations of adulthood. They may struggle to transition into academics/employment or manage adult responsibilities.
Our failure to launch program in Utah is designed to address these challenges among young adults ages 18-25+. With comprehensive care that includes mental health support, life skills coaching, mentoring, wellness support, and community engagement, we can help young adults achieve independence.
Our caring staff of mental health professionals and outside clinicians provides personalized guidance to young adults who lack momentum, direction, and confidence. Typical length of stay in our programs is 12 months, although the average is between 10 and 14 months. Students live in fully furnished apartments for a semi-independent living experience, providing a safe place to learn, grow, and thrive.
Our failure to launch program in Utah is designed to address these challenges among young adults ages 18-25+. With comprehensive care that includes mental health support, life skills coaching, mentoring, wellness support, and community engagement, we can help young adults achieve independence.
Our caring staff of mental health professionals and outside clinicians provides personalized guidance to young adults who lack momentum, direction, and confidence. Typical length of stay in our programs is 12 months, although the average is between 10 and 14 months. Students live in fully furnished apartments for a semi-independent living experience, providing a safe place to learn, grow, and thrive.
Our Orem Setting for Failure to Launch Support
STRiV Forward is not a clinical environment; instead, we work to curate a safe and supportive real-world living experience. Though we offer structure through daily schedules, students have full autonomy to make mistakes and develop accountability. Our campus is private and safe, and it encourages the natural development of essential life skills.
Students live in fully furnished apartments and attend work or school throughout our program. This allows them to practice real-world skills under the supervision of compassionate mentors, building real-world readiness. Students also have access to our local community, which offers exciting outdoor activities, opportunities to socialize, and volunteer opportunities.
Students live in fully furnished apartments and attend work or school throughout our program. This allows them to practice real-world skills under the supervision of compassionate mentors, building real-world readiness. Students also have access to our local community, which offers exciting outdoor activities, opportunities to socialize, and volunteer opportunities.
Apartment Living That Builds Independent Living Skills
Students living in fully furnished shared apartments with private bedrooms/bathrooms while at STRiV. This offers students a chance to learn real-life independent living skills in preparation for adult life, such as cooking, buying groceries, and budgeting. Mentors help students build accountability and practice these skills in a safe, supportive environment.
A Structured, In-Person Community Near Salt Lake City
Our local community is near Salt Lake City, which offers plenty of social opportunities for students to engage beyond screens and social media. Easy access to local colleges, gyms, and volunteering reduces isolation and helps students find their place as adults in the community.
Comfortable Spaces Designed for Confidence and Personal Growth
STRiV forward provides a comfortable space to help young adults improve self-esteem, decision-making, and coping skills. With calm, fully furnished apartments, community dinners, and weekend outings that take advantage of the outdoors of Utah, our students gain the emotional support needed for continuous personal growth.
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Why Families and Students Choose STRiV Forward
STRiV Forward sets itself apart by offering a unique, supportive environment tailored to help young adults build independence and confidence.
Safe Space for Growth: We understand how challenging it can be to transition into adulthood. Our program offers a supportive environment where students can learn from failure and try again without the pressure of perfection, fostering resilience and confidence.
Personalized Support: Each student receives tailored mental health care designed to promote community, growth, and accountability. Our small, boutique setting ensures individualized attention with a 1:4 mentor-to-student ratio, enabling meaningful connections and personalized guidance.
Community, Not Just Treatment: Students are integrated into a supportive community rather than treated as just participants in a treatment program. We respect their independence through a freedom-first approach that includes no strict curfews and permission to use technology.
Safe Space for Growth: We understand how challenging it can be to transition into adulthood. Our program offers a supportive environment where students can learn from failure and try again without the pressure of perfection, fostering resilience and confidence.
Personalized Support: Each student receives tailored mental health care designed to promote community, growth, and accountability. Our small, boutique setting ensures individualized attention with a 1:4 mentor-to-student ratio, enabling meaningful connections and personalized guidance.
Community, Not Just Treatment: Students are integrated into a supportive community rather than treated as just participants in a treatment program. We respect their independence through a freedom-first approach that includes no strict curfews and permission to use technology.
Freedom to Pursue Passions: We encourage students to engage in hobbies and activities they love. Our flexible environment promotes self-discovery and confidence, helping students develop independence through meaningful experiences.
Long-Term Relationships: Our dedicated staff has an exceptionally low turnover rate, allowing mentors to build lasting, trust-based relationships with students. This stability supports ongoing growth and personalized mentoring.
Structured Opportunities for Reflection and Growth: Within our safe, supportive environment, students are encouraged to reflect, learn from their experiences, and grow at their own pace. The combination of peer and professional support creates a nurturing space.
Long-Term Relationships: Our dedicated staff has an exceptionally low turnover rate, allowing mentors to build lasting, trust-based relationships with students. This stability supports ongoing growth and personalized mentoring.
Structured Opportunities for Reflection and Growth: Within our safe, supportive environment, students are encouraged to reflect, learn from their experiences, and grow at their own pace. The combination of peer and professional support creates a nurturing space.
Common Challenges Behind Failure to Launch
Failure to launch syndrome is often the result of various challenges that commonly affect adolescents as they transition to adulthood. Without guidance or support, these challenges can be overwhelming and prevent them from learning critical independent living skills. Learning how to effectively manage these challenges returns agency to our students and helps them take control of their lives.
ADHD and Executive Functioning Difficulties
Adolescents spend most of their lives having their schedules and activities planned for them. Coupled with developmental conditions like attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), it can be difficult to learn and practice essential executive functioning skills such as time management, follow-through, organization, and decision-making. Often mistaken for laziness, students who struggle with executive functioning are trying, but often lack the personalized guidance they need to succeed.
Low Self-Esteem, Social Anxiety, and Avoidance
Fear often plays a role in failure to launch syndrome, especially if the young adult had an overprotective environment. Young adults may fear independence so much that they overly rely on family, and as such, have difficulty entering adult roles, such as getting a job. They may fear failure and, as such, become too afraid to try. Some of this fear can stem from low self-esteem, a lack of confidence, an unmanaged mental health disorder like social anxiety disorder, or even trauma.
Technology Dependence and Video Game Overuse
The advent of technology has been both a boon and a hindrance in some aspects of life. Social media makes it easy to connect with others, but can also encourage self-isolation. Video games offer a source of escapism for young adults who may be struggling and can lead to psychological dependence. This can lead to social media and video game addiction, which can further exacerbate isolation and a lack of motivation.
Mental Health and Emotional Barriers
Some young adults may struggle with emotional and mental health challenges that can impact their ability to achieve independence. For example, they may struggle with anxiety or mood challenges, such as depression. These underlying issues can make them feel helpless, and they may stop trying. Overcoming these challenges involves returning agency to our students and making them feel safe enough to try again.
Life Skills Training That Prepares Young Adults for the Real World
STRiV Forward’s failure to launch program in Utah involves multiple services working in tandem to provide comprehensive support for our students. This comprehensive approach is essential to help young men and women overcome the challenges that hold them back and learn how to thrive as adults.
Individual Therapy and Collaborative Mental Health Support
For students who need it, we provide mental health support through outside clinicians and evidence-based therapies, such as cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). Each treatment plan is a collaborative effort between students, clinicians, and their families. This ensures that students with specialized needs receive the support they need while at STRiV Forward.
Group Therapy and Peer Accountability
Students have access to specialized support groups that teach a wide range of coping and problem-solving skills through peer collaboration. This includes our Life Skills group, The Art of Social Connection group, and more.
Students also participate in group therapy, which helps foster personal growth through shared experiences and peer feedback. Involving peers as part of our failure to launch program helps develop social skills, address emotional difficulties, and promote accountability.
Students also participate in group therapy, which helps foster personal growth through shared experiences and peer feedback. Involving peers as part of our failure to launch program helps develop social skills, address emotional difficulties, and promote accountability.
Life Coaching, Mentorship, and Decision-Making Support
STRiV Forward offers coaching and mentorship to our students who struggle with challenges such as executive dysfunction or a lack of life skills. With a 1:4 mentor-to-student ratio, students receive personalized support for learning and practicing these essential life skills.
The goal is to inspire agency and confidence so students can achieve independence through their own hard work and merit. Once young people learn that they can achieve their goals, they become less afraid of independence.
The goal is to inspire agency and confidence so students can achieve independence through their own hard work and merit. Once young people learn that they can achieve their goals, they become less afraid of independence.
Family Therapy and Ongoing Family Involvement
The goal of STRiV Forward is to encourage healthy family dynamics and a healthy separation. Family therapy is offered as needed to improve communication and teach family members how to support their loved one while allowing them to be independent. Families receive regular updates on their loved one’s progress and can trust that they are safe and comfortable at STRiV.
Personal Growth Through Real-Life Experiences
STRiV Forward aims to provide a real-world experience as close as possible. Our independent living program includes fully furnished apartments that students are responsible for keeping maintained. There is no curfew, so students must learn how to maintain a healthy routine and manage their time. Consequences are natural, and responsibility and accountability are learned through experience.
Students commonly enroll in Utah Valley University (UVU) and receive academic support while at STRiV. For employment, our vocational program helps students find local work or prepare them for a future career. The goal is to provide a safe place for students to try, fail, and try again. This encourages growth and makes adult experiences a regular part of their daily routine.
Students commonly enroll in Utah Valley University (UVU) and receive academic support while at STRiV. For employment, our vocational program helps students find local work or prepare them for a future career. The goal is to provide a safe place for students to try, fail, and try again. This encourages growth and makes adult experiences a regular part of their daily routine.
Daily Life in Our Failure to Launch Program
Students have a structured schedule from 9 am to 10 pm that features time for chores, wellness, academics or vocational tracks, coaching, community activities, apartment responsibilities, and recreation. This allows for a lifestyle close to what is expected for adult independent living. Structure helps students get used to these responsibilities, which builds confidence, normalizes adult tasks, and reduces anxiety.
Is a Failure to Launch Program Right for Your Young Adult?
Some emerging adults need extra help to achieve independence. If they struggle with follow-through, lack direction, are financially dependent on you, avoid responsibility, or feel stuck in life, they may benefit from a failure to launch program. Young adults face challenges that, with professional guidance, can be managed and overcome.
Inpatient programs are often too intensive for these challenges, while outpatient programs may not provide enough support. That’s why STRiV Forward created a failure to launch program that addresses these challenges in a safe, but close to real-life, setting. Here, students reclaim their agency from the challenges that hold them back and learn the skills they need for full independence.
Though your loved one may struggle now, it’s not forever. They can unlock their full potential at STRiV and become the responsible adults you believe they can be.
Inpatient programs are often too intensive for these challenges, while outpatient programs may not provide enough support. That’s why STRiV Forward created a failure to launch program that addresses these challenges in a safe, but close to real-life, setting. Here, students reclaim their agency from the challenges that hold them back and learn the skills they need for full independence.
Though your loved one may struggle now, it’s not forever. They can unlock their full potential at STRiV and become the responsible adults you believe they can be.
Partnering With Families for Long-Term Independence
Family involvement is important to help foster long-term independence in loved ones. STRiV Forward offers family therapy when needed, support planning, and regular updates. Family therapy is used to help family members establish healthy boundaries with their adult child and provide support without stifling their independence.
A Supportive Environment Where Young Adults Move Forward
STRiV Forward fosters a safe and supportive environment where young adults can practice real-life skills in a real-world setting. Students live in fully furnished apartments within walking distance of HQ. This encourages students to practice self-sufficiency, as they are responsible for their apartment upkeep and maintaining their schedule.
Our local community embraces the supportive and exciting nature of Utah’s outdoor lifestyle and positive mental health. Students are heavily involved in this community, which provides the socialization needed for personal growth and improved confidence.
Our local community embraces the supportive and exciting nature of Utah’s outdoor lifestyle and positive mental health. Students are heavily involved in this community, which provides the socialization needed for personal growth and improved confidence.
FAQs
What is a failure to launch program, and how can it help my young adult build independent living skills?
A failure to launch program is designed to help young adults who struggle to transition into independent living. It addresses the underlying causes for this failure to launch, including mental health challenges. Students in this program receive therapeutic support, life skills training, and personalized guidance to help them develop confidence, manage responsibilities, self-motivate, and achieve personal goals, which ultimately fosters independence.
How is a failure to launch program different from a residential treatment center or an outpatient program?
A failure to launch program specifically assists young adults who struggle to transition into independent adulthood. It focuses on developing life skills while providing therapeutic support.
In contrast, a residential treatment center or outpatient program focuses on treating mental health conditions, such as substance abuse. These programs usually don’t focus on life skills training for adult independence, other than what is needed to cope with or manage mental health conditions.
What causes failure to launch in young adults?
Failure to launch is a multifaceted issue and can be caused by factors such as:
- Economic pressures
- Mental health challenges
- Overprotective parents
- Increased costs of living
- Societal shifts
- Fear of failure
- Substance use and abuse
- Trauma
- Process addictions (gaming, social media)
Any one of these factors can hinder the development of independence and make it difficult to learn life skills.
Who is a good fit for a failure to launch program in Utah?
The best fit for our failure to launch program at STRiV Forward is young adults ages 18-25+ who are stable enough to live independently. Students should be willing to engage in treatment and motivated to grow.
We can help students with a wide range of mental health challenges. However, we are unable to help those with active substance use, unmanaged psychiatric conditions, or conditions requiring specialized medical supervision, like detox.
How do individual therapy and group therapy support personal growth?
Individual therapy supports personal growth by providing a one-on-one environment where students can explore their emotions, develop self-awareness, and work through personal challenges with a trained therapist.
Group therapy supports personal growth through shared feedback and experiences from fellow peers, which helps individuals address maladaptive behaviors and emotional difficulties in a supportive setting.
What life skills training do young adults receive?
Students at STRiV forward learn critical life skills they will need as independent adults, such as:
- General emotional and physical self-care
- Managing/maintaining living spaces
- Budgeting/money management
- Public transportation/driving
- Meal planning and preparation
- Vocational training and/or work experience
- Citizenship and community involvement
How are family members involved in the program?
Families are included in our program through collaboration in goal setting and planning. Updates are frequent, and family therapy is offered as needed. We also help encourage healthy separation, which teaches families how to support their loved one while allowing them to become independent.
Can this program help my adult child transition successfully into the real world?
Yes! STRiV Forward provides a setting as close to the real world as possible, with fully furnished apartments, no curfew, and a local community to explore. This allows students to practice their skills in an environment that’s safe to fail in, which helps them adapt to life in the real world.
How long does enrollment typically last?
Enrollment typically lasts around 12 months, with 10 to 14 months being the average.