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.
At a glance
- Pillar
- Skills for Life
- Sessions
- 3 sessions
- Session length
- About 75 to 90 minutes
- Who leads it
- A partner delivers the content; New Steps hosts it
- Certificate
- New Steps Certificate — competence-based, signed off when the young person has shown the skill on a real task
Plus an optional pool of extra partner sessions that slot into the calendar as bookings land.
What they leave with
- Their own map of where to get free legal help
- A keep-forever card with their plan for when a legal letter arrives
- Their own lines for who helps them
How it runs
A guest legal partner delivers the legal content. A New Steps facilitator hosts the container and runs the navigation wrap.
What this module is not
Navigation only. New Steps maps the doors and helps a young person walk through them; it does not give legal advice.
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.