Young Australians living with a chronic health condition, compared to their peers, are more likely to be socially excluded, experience stigma, deal with mental health challenges and difficult living situations, find it challenging to continue their education, and enter the workforce - all while trying to manage their condition.

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Current support for young Australians living with a chronic health condition tends to take a biomedical approach, focusing on supporting the person to manage their condition well. Importantly, we need a better understanding of what matters most to young people and their families in growing up well and how to best support them to address this. 

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Our project is focusing on two chronic health conditions - asthma and epilepsy. Learn more about our project by visiting Healthtalk Australia's Growing Up Well webpage

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We are currently running a series of co-design workshops with young people with asthma or epilepsy, their family members and others who support them, to help shape our research. If you'd like to get involved, click on this link.  

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