Skills for Life
Money & Me
By the end, your money has a plan — and the plan is yours.
- Sessions
- 5 sessions
- Each
- About 2 hours
Program Catalogue
29 program modules — this is what a young person actually does here
Not “life skills training.” A named module, a set number of sessions, and something concrete in their hands at the end: a filed application, a signed lease-ready checklist, a booked intake, a plan they wrote themselves.
How to read this catalogue
Modules are grouped by the three pillars the program is built on, because that is how a young person's time here is actually organised — and because “Wave 3” means something to us and nothing to you.
Each module page states the promise in the young person's own language, how many sessions it runs, how long each one is, and exactly what they leave with. Modules are built to connect: several of them hand a piece of work forward to another, and each page names which ones.
Every module ends in a New Steps Certificate. It is competence-based — it records what the young person can now do, demonstrated on a real task and signed off by the facilitator. There is no grade, no score and no ranking on it.
- Modules published here
- 26
- Pillars the program is built on
- 3
- Held back until the Elder advisory has authored them
- 3
Skills for Life
Money, documents, housing, health, safety and the systems a young person has to deal with. Each module ends in something real they can hold or show.
Skills for Life
My ID Ladder
By the end, you'll have your own documents — or the applications filed — and your own bank account, opened or started. This is the master key. Everything else opens once you have it.
- Sessions
- 3 sessions
- Each
- About 90 minutes
Skills for Life
Reality Budget Simulation
You'll run a whole month of real life — your own pay, your own bills, your own choices — and walk out knowing one thing you'll change with your real money.
- Sessions
- One-day live simulation event
- Each
- About 4 hours 30 minutes with residents
Skills for Life
My Place
By the end, you can find a place, get in, and keep it — and you'll know your rights the whole way.
- Sessions
- 6 sessions
- Each
- About 2 hours
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Staying Well
By the end, you have your own ways to get through a hard day — and you know who to call.
- Sessions
- 6 sessions
- Each
- About 1 hour 30 minutes
Skills for Life
Digital Life
By the end, your phone works for you — you spot the traps, you lock it down, and you find the real stuff.
- Sessions
- 5 sessions
- Each
- About 90 minutes
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Getting Around
By the end, you can get where you need to go — today on the bus, and one step closer to a licence.
- Sessions
- 5 sessions
- Each
- About 1 hour 50 minutes
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Grief & Loss
By the end, you have your own ways to carry a loss — and you know you don't carry it alone.
- Sessions
- 5 sessions
- Each
- About 1 hour 15 minutes
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Healthy Relationships
By the end, you know what respect, safety, and choice feel like — and who's in your corner.
- Sessions
- 5 sessions
- Each
- About 90 minutes
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Feeding Myself
By the end, you can cook a few real meals — and plan and shop for them on your own money.
- Sessions
- A cooking series
- Each
- About 2 hours
Skills for Life
Legal Literacy & Justice Navigation
By the end, you'll know where to get free legal help, and what to do when a legal letter shows up. Knowing your way around the system is a skill — and it's yours.
- Sessions
- 3 sessions
- Each
- About 75 to 90 minutes
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Sexual Health
A trusted guest teaches. You take what's useful — your way, in private. Nobody puts you on the spot, and you leave knowing where to get free, confidential help.
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Young Parents
You're parenting young — and you're not doing it alone. Come as you are, bring the baby, and we'll walk it with you.
- Each
- About 75 to 120 minutes per wrapped session
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Big Buys & Contracts
By the end, you can check a big deal before you sign it — and know exactly what to do if someone steals your name.
- Sessions
- 4 sessions
- Each
- About 90 minutes
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Knowing the System: My Rights, My File, My Voice
By the end, you know how your care works — who decides, how to keep support after 18, and how to get your own file.
- Sessions
- 3 sessions
- Each
- About 75 to 90 minutes
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Emergencies + First Aid
By the end, you know what to do when it goes wrong — and you'll have a real first-aid card to keep.
- Sessions
- 3 sessions
- Each
- About 75 to 90 minutes
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Exploitation Awareness
Real, straight information about people who try to use or trap young people — from a specialist, in a safe room. No one asks your story. You leave knowing it's never your fault, and knowing who to call.
- Sessions
- 1 session
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My Plan
By the end, you have your own written plan for your life — and the plan is yours to keep.
- Sessions
- 2 sessions
- Each
- About 75 to 90 minutes
Skills for Life
My Week
By the end, your week lives in one place — and you set a real reminder yourself.
- Sessions
- 3 sessions
- Each
- About 1 hour 25 minutes
Skills for Life
Speaking Up: My Asks
By the end, you can ask for what you need — and make one real ask, for real, in the room.
- Sessions
- 4 sessions
- Each
- About 1 hour 30 minutes
Building Careers
School, training, work and running something of their own — with a booked next step made in the room, not a promise to follow up later.
Building Careers
Money From My Nation
By the end, you'll have your own money map — the real dollars you can get, when they're due, and the first two forms already started.
- Sessions
- 3 sessions
- Each
- 90 minutes
Building Careers
Back to School
By the end, you've picked your way back to school or training — and you've already started it.
- Sessions
- 4 sessions
- Each
- About 95 minutes
Building Careers
First Job
By the end, you'll have your own resume, a work email, and one real next step booked.
- Sessions
- 5 sessions
- Each
- About 2 hours
Building Careers
My Own Boss
By the end, you've got a real idea, a real price, and a pitch you filmed yourself.
- Sessions
- 5 sessions
- Each
- About 2 hours
Building Careers
Trades Taster
You get to try real trades — welding, wiring, wood, whatever's on offer — for a day at a time. No test. You find out what fits, what doesn't, and what your next step could be. Trying it and saying 'not for me' is a win too.
- Sessions
- Two to four taster days per cohort
- Each
- Half a day is typical
Rooted in Culture
Culture, land and art — hosted by New Steps, authored and led by Elders and Knowledge Keepers.
In development with our Elder advisory
Elders and Knowledge Keepers author and lead this work. New Steps hosts the container — the welcome, the food, the transport, the logistics — and never writes, teaches or tests a teaching. Until the advisory has authored a module, we do not publish a description of it.
- Seven Teachings Series
- Cultural Arts
- Land-Based Weekends
Also offered
Runs alongside the three pillars.
Sport & Recreation
Come move, play, and be part of a team — your way. A partner runs the sport. New Steps brings the food, the ride, and the room. You just show up. Showing up and playing is the win.
- Sessions
- 6 sessions
- Each
- About 90 minutes
Thinking about a referral?
A caseworker reaches out, we book a tour, and we work out together whether this is the right fit. When a room is open, a referral can come together in about a week. When we are full, we will say so rather than leave you waiting.
New Steps is not an emergency placement service — we do not take same-day or overnight placements.
Or call (431) 444-2114 — Monday – Friday, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM, urgent calls answered any time.