Youth with disabilities often struggle to develop life skills, which are crucial to securing employment, daily living, developing and maintain friendships as well as many other tasks associated with emerging adulthood. This problem is exacerbated due to the lack of opportunities to explore the world and expand their social world as they grow. As such, life skills programs aim to enable youth with physical disabilities to develop the skills they need for emerging adulthood. The study investigated the perceived impact the residential immersive skills (RILS) program had on youth. By interviewing participants, it was identified that the program helped enhance higher-order skills, gave participants new notions of independence, and assisted youth in identifying change, empowerment, and advocacy. The structured and facilitative environment provided to the youth gave them many opportunities to learn and practice a variety of skills that led to an increase in competence and motivation to engage in independent activities. Additionally, through engaging with peers who had similar experiences, the youth were able to integrate their disabilities into their identity. Due to the positive effect the program had on participating youth, it is the hope of the investigators that the study will contribute to developing evidence-based best practices for similar life skills programs in the future.