Lithgow Community Projects is a community based, nonprofit organisation funded by the Department of Family and Community Services, Specialist Homelessness Services Program. Lithgow Commuity Projects Inc. provides support, information, accommodation, and counselling services, as well as cordinates a variety of social and recreational events and groups in the Lithgow region.

Young People

Challenges for adolescents

• Accepting changes in body
• Adjustment to changes in sexuality
• Changes in relationships
• Becoming emotionally independent
• Achieving a useful social role
• Achieving economic independence
• Choosing values and morals by which to live
• Choosing a lifestyle & finding a place to belong
• Independent Decision making and problem solving

Factors which can make adolescence difficult

• Changes from childhood to adulthood
• Hormonal: sexual and aggressive feelings
• Decreasing trust in adults and authority
• Pressure to be like friends
• Questioning identity; who am I?
• Loss: death, divorce of parents etc
• Feeling of being different
• Experimentation & risk taking
• Unemployment & poor education
• Conflict with parents
• Feeling lonely
• Homelessness (DV, CSA, child abuse or neglect etc)
• Physical illness

• Lithgow Community Health 6350 2750
• Lithgow Community Projects Counselling services 6351 2230
• Lithgow Community Projects Youth WorX service 6352 2132
• LINC Adolescent & Family Counsellor 6352 2077
• Lithgow Outreach Centa Care Counselling services6331 8944
• Headspace for Young People http://www.headspace.org.au

Disclaimer: LCP Inc. provides this page as a guide to some of the options available. This does not mean we endorse or recommend any of these groups, chat rooms or websites.