What are the various ways to give my middle daughter support both moral or otherwise?

My daughter has been away living out of state and she is planning to come home, of which I am totally elated for, but am concerned that she may not have matured enough to be able to set a goal andmove on in life. She was always the one that her father went to and released his aggression on. When I was around the house and not working, I ofcourse intervened and he would say that I just babied her too much. Later I found out that he did that because she favored me in appearance and not his mother, whom was deceased by then. Long story short, we divorced and he left out the country and neither the children and I have heard from him again to this date.