LIFE-STEP Essentials -Free 15-Hour Digital Training
For Everyday Life
LIFE-STEP™ Essentials
Everyday Digital Confidence
Build the technology and life skills needed to feel more confident, independent, and secure in today’s digital world.
LIFE-STEP™ Essentials is a free, hands-on, 15-hour program for adults who want practical help using technology in everyday life. No prior computer experience is required.
Who This Program Is For
A supportive place to learn at your own pace.
Ideal for:
- Adults who are not currently looking for work
- Older adults wanting greater digital confidence
- People with little or no computer experience
- Anyone wanting practical technology and everyday life skills
No experience required
Participants learn in a beginner-friendly environment where questions are welcome and instructors provide hands-on support.
The goal is not to make you a technology expert. The goal is to help you feel more capable, independent, and comfortable using technology in daily life.
What You Will Learn
Practical skills for everyday life.
LIFE-STEP™ Essentials combines technology skills with communication, decision-making, financial wellness, and adaptability so participants can navigate an increasingly digital world with greater confidence.
💻 Computer Basics
Learn how to use a Windows 11 laptop, navigate the desktop, manage files, use the keyboard and touchpad, and adjust accessibility settings.
🌐 Internet Skills
Search for reliable information, use websites and online resources, complete forms, save bookmarks, and browse more safely.
✉️ Email & Online Accounts
Set up and manage email, organize messages, understand common inbox folders, create secure accounts, and use verification codes.
🔐 Online Safety
Recognize scams, phishing, suspicious links, weak passwords, and other threats while protecting your privacy and personal information.
📄 Microsoft 365
Get hands-on practice with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneDrive, Outlook, and common productivity tools.
💰 Financial Wellness
Learn practical budgeting, banking, debt awareness, emergency planning, scam prevention, and everyday financial organization.
🤖 AI for Everyday Tasks
Learn how tools such as ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and Google Gemini can help with writing, planning, learning, and everyday questions.
🗣 Communication
Build confidence communicating clearly, asking questions, solving problems, and staying connected with family and community.
🌱 Adaptability & Lifelong Learning
Strengthen confidence, resilience, critical thinking, decision-making, and the ability to keep learning as technology changes.
More Than a Computer Class
Technology changes. Your ability to adapt can grow.
LIFE-STEP™ Essentials is powered by ROOTED™ Self-Leadership for Life, Work, and AI—a framework that helps participants build confidence, resilience, curiosity, critical thinking, and lifelong learning.
ROOTED™ Self-Leadership
- Rethink: Challenge assumptions and think critically
- Open: Stay willing to learn and try something new
- Observe: Pay attention before reacting
- Truth: Act with honesty and self-awareness
- Equanimity: Stay steady when things feel difficult
- Discovery: Keep learning and growing
Program Details
What to expect
Class Format
LIFE-STEP™ Essentials is delivered in person by trained instructors in a supportive, small-group environment.
The 15 hours are usually scheduled across several sessions. The exact schedule varies by host location and cohort.
Completion & Laptop Eligibility
Participants are expected to attend all required hours and complete pre- and post-program surveys and class activities.
A free refurbished Windows 11 laptop may be provided upon successful completion when included in the specific cohort and funding source. Registration information will explain what applies to each class.
What You Will Gain
Greater confidence, independence, and connection.
- Greater confidence using technology
- More independence completing everyday tasks online
- Better online safety and scam awareness
- Stronger communication and problem-solving skills
- Greater access to healthcare, financial, education, and community resources
- Comfort learning new technology as it changes
Take the Next Step
Build confidence for everyday life.
You do not need to be a technology expert to begin. You only need a willingness to learn—and we will be there to help.