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Do you want to feel more confident managing daily life and taking steps toward living independently?
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What You'll Learn
You’ll build skills in routines, safety, organisation, communication, and accessing community services. Hands-on activities help you practise decision-making and managing real-life responsibilities.
Real-World Connections
You’ll meet housing organisations and explore living setups in the community to see real options. These experiences help you understand what independent life looks like beyond the program.
Who This Is For
Participants wanting to build confidence, grow independence, and explore future living options. Ideal for those ready to take steps toward managing daily life independently.
Designed for your future
You’ll build skills, confidence, and clarity about what independent living could look like for you.
Co-Hive Learning Journey
Module 1
Build Core Skills
Independent Living Skills: Learn the everyday skills that help you manage your home, routine, safety, hygiene, cooking basics, organisation, sustainable living practices, and understanding different types of housing.
Choice-Making & Advocacy: Learn to make informed decisions, understand your rights and responsibilities, solve problems, speak up for what you need, and connect with advocacy organisations working to improve housing access for people with disability.
Relationships & Communication:Build skills for living with others — boundaries, emotional safety, conflict resolution, communication, and navigating tricky or uncomfortable situations.
Technology & Innovation: Explore everyday tech that supports independence: budgeting apps, transport apps, safety tools, online bookings, reminder systems, and roommate-finder apps designed for shared living.
Financial Literacy: Learn about budgeting, bills, rent, groceries, saving, planning ahead, and making confident financial decisions when preparing for independence.
Module 2
Get Real Experience
Practical Application: Put your skills into practice in real settings: grocery shopping, using public transport, organising routines, planning meals, managing daily tasks, visiting housing services, and practising safe independence in the community.
Project Overnight Independence Experience: Complete a supervised overnight independence stay where you will practise packing, navigating, cooking, cleaning, managing routines, organising your space, and working safely with others.
Hear from our participants
Real skills. Real independence. Participants share how hands-on training has helped them go about daily living more bravely, confidently, and wisely.
Get In Touch“I've learnt about the different styles of living and renting. It was good to visit places like Service NSW to practice applying for services. I got tips to improve my household skills like budgeting and cleaning.”
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"Talking to a real estate agent and learning about different types of housing showed me what’s involved in renting, and now I feel more prepared to make informed decisions about my future home and the right questions to ask."
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"Visiting the laundromat, practising budgeting and learning how to find the right roommate made everything feel more real, Moving out of home is something I can work towards step by step."
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