Skills for Life
Staying Well
By the end, you have your own ways to get through a hard day — and you know who to call.
At a glance
- Pillar
- Skills for Life
- Sessions
- 6 sessions
- Session length
- About 1 hour 30 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
Every session stands alone. No session needs the one before it, and a resident who comes to only one still leaves with a whole skill.
What they leave with
- Their own grounding move
- Their map of safe people and safe places
- A referral card they keep in their pocket
- A harm-reduction card for staying safer
- Their own written plan for hard days
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.