Skills for Life
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.
At a glance
- Pillar
- Skills for Life
- Sessions
- 3 sessions
- Session length
- About 75 to 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 one-page map of who is who — their worker, the agency, the Authority, and New Steps
- A written, dated countdown to turning 18
- A real request for their own file, drafted and sent in the session
- A card showing the complaint staircase, step by step
- The advocate and peer-network numbers, 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.