Skills for Life
Getting Around
By the end, you can get where you need to go — today on the bus, and one step closer to a licence.
At a glance
- Pillar
- Skills for Life
- Sessions
- 5 sessions
- Session length
- About 1 hour 50 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
Plus an optional group transit outing — half a day or a full day.
What they leave with
- Their own planned real bus trip, or a completed group outing
- A winter plan for getting stuck, with a real person to call
- A transport line in their money plan
- Their own map of ways to get around
- A licence-ladder card: the three stages, their own next step, and who helps them practise
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.
Bridges to
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.