FOR PARENTS
Help them prepare for the life ahead.
You know your teenager best. The Launch Mission partners with you as you help them grow in faith, explore their direction, and practice independence before life after high school begins.
YOUR ROLE IN THE TRANSITION
Stay involved as they learn to take ownership.
Preparation happens through ordinary conversations, growing responsibility, and the chance to practice before they are on their own. Help your teenager work on three connected areas.
Faith & community
Talk about what they believe and how their faith is growing. Help them think ahead about Christian community, church, and mentors in their next setting.
College & career direction
Encourage exploration of their strengths, interests, and values. Help them compare possibilities and take practical steps toward a direction they can own.
Life skills & independence
Give them increasing responsibility for time, money, commitments, relationships, and decisions while you are still close enough to coach them.
Start a conversation about readiness.
Let your teenager complete the readiness check first. Then compare observations, celebrate strengths, and choose responsibilities they can begin practicing with your support.
A RESOURCE TO USE TOGETHER
Listen together. Keep talking.
The Launch Mission Podcast brings timely conversations about faith, community, college, career, relationships, and independence to students and the parents who guide them.
A new season starts each September for the current senior class, with new episodes every Monday through the end of May. Season 5 is underway, with five seasons of earlier conversations in the vault.
Hear the Season 5 trailer
FROM CONTENT TO CONVERSATION
Make room for questions.
Use the podcast, companion blog, and weekly topic sheets to start a conversation that fits what your teenager is facing. Listen first, ask open questions, and choose one next step together.
Weekly Topic Sheets
What stood out?
Ask what surprised them, what they agreed with, and what they would like to understand better.
Where does this fit?
Connect the topic to a real decision, challenge, relationship, or responsibility in their life.
What can you try?
Help them choose one practical action. Agree on a time to check back and hear what they learned.
BOOKS FOR PARENTS
A vision for discipleship. A plan for preparation.
FOR PARENTS
Ownership Road
A vision for helping your children develop an authentic faith that prepares them for life after high school.
COMPANION STUDY GUIDE
Ownership RoadMap
Questions and additional insight for each chapter of Ownership Road. Use it on your own or in a small group as you develop a discipleship plan for your child.
FOR PARENTS OF SENIORS
The Freedom Permit
A vision for using the senior year as a training season for independence, with guidance for spiritual development, life management, social behaviors, and goal setting.
FOR HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS
Practicing Independence
Four Steps to Maximize Your Senior Year and Prepare for Life After High School.
The student companion to The Freedom Permit. Parents can use The Freedom Permit for guidance while their senior works through Practicing Independence as they prepare for life after high school.
CAREER DIRECTION
Help them explore before they decide.
When your teenager is unsure about college, a major, or a career, Launch Point Coaching offers a guided starting point.
Using the Career inSight Discovery System, students explore purpose, personality, proficiencies, passions, and principles, then work toward practical next steps. Your role is to encourage discovery while giving them room to take ownership of their direction.
FOR HOME SCHOOL FAMILIES
Bring career development into the learning journey.
Good Work is a Christ-centered career development course for high school students, featuring the Career inSight Discovery System.
The course helps students explore how they are wired and take practical steps toward career direction, with a parent, teacher, or mentor serving as their Pathways Guide.
Home School Curriculum
Good Work
A Christ-centered career development course for high school students, featuring the Career inSight Discovery System.
Coming Soon
Let’s help your teenager prepare.
Have a question about a resource or how TLM can support your family? Tell us where your teenager is in the journey and what would be most helpful.