Skills for Life
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.
At a glance
- Pillar
- Skills for Life
- Sessions
- 4 sessions
- Session length
- About 90 minutes
- Who leads it
- New Steps facilitator
- Certificate
- New Steps Certificate — competence-based, signed off when the young person has shown the skill on a real task
What they leave with
- A card with three checks to run before buying a car
- A used-car simulation they ran — lien search, VIN match, and the buy-or-walk call
- The rule that there is no cooling-off period, so you check before you sign
- A card on their rights in a phone contract
- A card on the warranty they already have
- Their free credit report, ordered in the session
- The two Manitoba numbers — one for a bad deal, one for fraud — saved in their phone
How it connects
Modules are built to stack. Where one has already taught a skill, the next one recalls it rather than teaching it again.
Is this a fit for someone you work with?
A caseworker reaches out, we book a tour, and we work out together whether New Steps is the right place. When a room is open, a referral can come together in about a week. When we are full, we will say so. 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.