Skills for Life
Reality Budget Simulation
You'll run a whole month of real life — your own pay, your own bills, your own choices — and walk out knowing one thing you'll change with your real money.
At a glance
- Pillar
- Skills for Life
- Sessions
- One-day live simulation event
- Session length
- About 4 hours 30 minutes with residents
- 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
Not a multi-session course — a single live event. Staff set the room up for 90 minutes before anyone arrives; that setup is not part of the resident's day.
What they leave with
- A completed simulation passbook — their month, tracked
- A keep-forever reference card
- One named change they will make with their real money
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.
Comes after
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.