Lithgow Community Projects is a community based, non profit organisation funded by the Dept. of Community Services SAAP Program. LCP provides support, information, accommodation & counselling services, as well as co-ordinating a variety of social and recreational events and groups.

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.