Transportation is essential for meeting basic needs. At Ready for Life, youth can receive a year-long bus pass, making it easier for them to get to appointments, work, or school. Youth can also work with their Youth Specialist to receive assistance with Uber/Lyft, ride sharing, or gas, and with obtaining a driver's license.

Hygiene needs are some of the first that we meet when youth initially find Ready for Life. Many of our youth are homeless, displaced, or between living situations and often need a place to shower, do laundry, and reset. Our Rays Clean Sweep Day Stop, sponsored by the Rays Baseball Foundation, provides youth with access to toiletries, a shower, private lockers, and laundry facilities.

Financial literacy is a major key to former foster youth building a successful future. Ready for Life's Financial Literacy course teaches youth the most important financial skills, including budgeting and saving, making financially responsible decisions, as well as how to open and manage their own bank account. 

Stocked with donated items from our wish list and organized by creative volunteers, The Pantry has become one of the most important services we offer to hundreds of young clients and their children every day. 

We are so excited to announce the opening of the Good Day Store at the RFL Skill Center, where the Santa’s Angels are providing all of the hygiene, laundry, and other supplies needed for use in our Rays Clean Sweep Day Stop shower and laundry room. The Good Day Store is a bright, inspiring, and respect-filled space with so many wonderful items to assist youth who are struggling.

Ready for Life offers lockers donated by Suncoast Voices for Children that our youth can use for important documents, personal belongings, or anything they feel needs safeguarding. Since many youth come to us homeless or displaced, a safe and secure place for their treasured items is essential.

Shelter is one of the most important basic needs former foster youth need help meeting. Without a safe, dry place to lay their heads at night, it is that much harder for youth to contemplate a successful future. Ready for Life, with the help of our Youth Specialists, assists displaced former foster youth in exploring all potential housing solutions, getting them back on their feet as soon as possible.

Beth's Corner, sponsored by the Beth Dillinger Foundation, is a special closet at Ready for Life filled with brand new clothing for young adults and their children. Whether they need an outfit for work, a job interview, or an important school presentation, youth can always find something new to wear from Beth's Corner.

Due to lack of support and ever-changing living situations, many former foster youth don't have access to most of their important documents, nor do they know where to look. Ready for Life offers assistance in locating and ordering birth certificates, IDs, transcripts, and other important documents youth need to continue on the road to success.