2WANDA VERIFIED SOLUTIONS™ | CARE SERVICE DIVISION
2BeLOVE Pathway™
Preparing The Beloveds™ for Adulthood and Independent Living
2BeLOVE Pathway™ supports youth and young adults in foster care as they prepare for the transition into adulthood and independent living.
Through mentorship, preparation, navigation, advocacy, and responsible connections, the pathway helps each participant better understand what may be needed, identify appropriate next steps, and build a more supported direction forward.
WHO ARE THE BELOVEDS™?
The Beloveds™
Participants in 2BeLOVE Pathway™ are called The Beloveds™.
The name reflects the pathway’s commitment to recognizing each young person as a whole individual whose identity is greater than a placement, circumstance, case, diagnosis, history, or system involvement.
The Beloveds™ include boys and girls in foster care who are preparing for adulthood. A young person who becomes adopted after entering the pathway may continue participating based on individual needs, pathway scope, available support, and the young person’s transition goals.
THE 2BELOVE PATHWAY™ APPROACH
Orient. Prepare. Connect. Navigate. Advocate.
Transitioning into adulthood involves more than reaching a certain age. It requires time to understand the young person, identify responsibilities and resources, develop practical skills, prepare for decisions, and build responsible connections.
Five pathway steps:
Orient
Understand the young person’s current situation, strengths, needs, goals, relationships, responsibilities, available resources, and transition timeline before determining the next steps.
Prepare
Help the young person build knowledge, readiness, practical skills, documentation, questions, and plans connected to adulthood and independent living.
Connect
Identify and connect the young person with appropriate people, programs, providers, education options, employment resources, community supports, and adult-service systems.
Navigate
Help the young person understand processes, organize information, follow responsible next steps, and move through unfamiliar systems with greater clarity.
Advocate
Support the young person in developing self-advocacy skills while helping ensure that important needs, questions, goals, and transition concerns are appropriately communicated.
WHEN THE PATHWAY BEGINS
Preparation Begins Before the Transition
Connection to 2BeLOVE Pathway™ may begin approximately 18 months before the anticipated transition from foster care.
Beginning before the transition creates time to understand the young person’s individual direction, identify missing information or resources, strengthen practical readiness, and make responsible connections before immediate decisions become urgent.
The exact starting point and support provided are based on the young person’s circumstances, transition timeline, goals, participation, pathway scope, and available capacity.
AREAS OF TRANSITION SUPPORT
Support for the Responsibilities of Adulthood
Support is individualized according to the needs, goals, circumstances, and transition direction of each Beloved™.
Support may include mentorship and consistent adult connection, education planning and navigation, employment preparation and workforce connections, housing readiness and housing-resource navigation, transportation planning and resource connections, identification, records, and personal-document readiness, financial literacy, budgeting, and money-management preparation, health, insurance, and benefits navigation, daily living and independent-living skill development, communication and relationship skills, self-advocacy and informed decision-making, understanding responsibilities, appointments, deadlines, and required follow-up, navigation of adult-service and community-support systems, connections to appropriate community resources, organizations, and qualified providers, and advocacy related to the participant’s transition needs and goals.
2BeLOVE Pathway™ may provide support directly or help the participant connect with the appropriate outside resource, organization, agency, or qualified professional responsible for the identified need.
MENTORSHIP AND SELF-ADVOCACY
Support That Builds Capacity—not Dependence
Mentorship within 2BeLOVE Pathway™ is designed to help The Beloveds™ develop greater awareness, preparation, confidence, responsibility, and capacity for navigating adulthood.
The pathway does not make every decision for the participant. Mentors and pathway supports help young people understand choices, prepare questions, recognize responsibilities, practice communication, identify resources, and strengthen their ability to participate in decisions affecting their lives.
The goal is to help each participant move forward with stronger support, clearer information, practical preparation, and an increasing ability to advocate for themselves.
Before providing mentorship through 2BeLOVE Pathway™, every mentor must complete the pathway’s required application and review process, identity verification, applicable background screening and fingerprint-clearance requirements, reference checks, orientation, and role-specific training.
Mentors must also complete required preparation concerning professional boundaries, confidentiality, mandated reporting, participant safety, appropriate communication, documentation, escalation procedures, and the mentor’s defined role. Completion of screening or training does not independently guarantee mentor approval or assignment.
Mentor contact with The Beloveds™ must follow the pathway’s approved consent, matching, communication, supervision, safety, and documentation requirements.
CONNECTED SUPPORT
One Pathway. Many Responsible Connections.
No single program can responsibly meet every transition need. 2BeLOVE Pathway™ helps identify what support is needed and where responsibility for that support belongs.
Depending on the participant’s circumstances and goals, responsible connections may include education programs, employers, workforce resources, housing resources, transportation supports, health and benefit systems, community organizations, mentors, advocates, and qualified service providers.
A connection or referral does not guarantee eligibility, acceptance, placement, funding, services, or a particular outcome.
PARTICIPATION AND PATHWAY CAPACITY
Individualized Transition Support
Participation is based on the young person’s transition timeframe, individual needs, pathway alignment, willingness to participate, available support, and current program capacity.
Because participants may be minors or involved with multiple responsible adults and systems, applicable consent, authorization, communication, confidentiality, and participation requirements must be followed before support begins.
Submitting an inquiry does not guarantee acceptance or participation in 2BeLOVE Pathway™.
IMPORTANT PATHWAY NOTICE
What the Pathway Provides
2BeLOVE Pathway™ provides transition-focused mentorship, preparation, navigation, advocacy, coordinated support, and responsible resource connections.
The pathway does not guarantee housing, employment, transportation, benefits, funding, placement, admission to another program, or access to a particular service. Services or resources provided by an outside organization remain subject to that organization’s eligibility requirements, authority, availability, and decisions.
2BeLOVE Pathway™ does not replace the legal authority or responsibilities of a parent, guardian, court, responsible agency, case professional, education provider, healthcare provider, or another authorized decision-maker.
CONTACT AND NEXT STEP
Ask About 2BeLOVE Pathway™
Youth, young adults, caregivers, responsible adults, case professionals, advocates, and community partners may contact 2Wanda Verified Solutions™ to ask general questions about 2BeLOVE Pathway™, the anticipated transition timeframe, pathway alignment, and current capacity.
Do not submit confidential case records, medical records, court documents, Social Security numbers, member identification numbers, or other protected information through the general contact form.