Skills for Life
My Place
By the end, you can find a place, get in, and keep it — and you'll know your rights the whole way.
At a glance
- Pillar
- Skills for Life
- Sessions
- 6 sessions
- Session length
- About 2 hours
- 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 filled practice rental application
- A viewing checklist they used in a role-play
- Their own move-in and move-out condition-record plan
- A rent-day reminder set on their own phone, in the session
- A keep-forever card of their rights when renting
- A Rent Assist eligibility check, started
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.