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.
At a glance
- Pillar
- Skills for Life
- Sessions
- 3 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
Plus one to two guided group trips, half a day each. One facilitator to every four residents during any application block or trip.
What they leave with
- Real documents in hand, or applications filed for their core documents
- A bank account opened — or a documented attempt
- A safekeeping plan: they know where their originals live and who helps them
- Keep-forever reference cards
How it runs
Includes a banking-rights session on the legal right to a basic account.
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.