🌿 Young Adult Empowerment & Support Hub

This space is created for young adults who are navigating identity, relationships, emotional stress, and important life choices.
It offers gentle guidance, practical tools, and clear information to help you feel more confident, safe, and supported as you grow into yourself.

Whether you’re dealing with pressure, confusion, relationship challenges, or overwhelming emotions, these resources are here to help you find clarity and steady ground.

This information is not legal advice, but it can help you understand your options and make informed, empowered decisions.

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🌱 1. Your Rights as a Young Person in Australia

Young people in Australia are protected by strong laws that support your safety, independence, and wellbeing.

Your rights include:

• The right to feel safe at home, school, work, and online.

• The right to make your own choices about your friendships, relationships, education, and future.

• The right to access support without needing permission from a partner or friend.

• The right to privacy, respect, and personal boundaries.

• The right to ask for help from school, health services, or support organisations.

Key protective laws include:

• Crimes (Domestic and Personal Violence) Act 2007 (NSW)

• Family Law Act 1975

• Sex Discrimination Act 1984

• Fair Work Act 2009 (workplace protections for young people)

You do not need physical harm for the law to support you.
Control, threats, intimidation, manipulation, or unwanted pressure are also recognised as unsafe behaviour.

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💛 2. Emotional Wellbeing & Self-Awareness

Being a young adult can be overwhelming — big emotions, mixed messages, social pressure, and major life decisions all at once.

These tools help you understand when your mind and body may need support:

You may benefit from support if you:

• feel stressed, anxious, or on edge often

• experience emotional ups and downs

• feel pressured, monitored, or controlled by someone

• feel confused or unsure about a relationship

• feel shut down, numb, or disconnected

• feel like you’re “too much” or “not enough”

• are constantly trying to keep the peace

Helpful tools include:

• grounding exercises

• understanding emotional triggers

• building healthy boundaries

• recognising unhealthy patterns

• reaching out to trusted adults or professionals

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🌙 3. Healthy Friendships & Relationships

Healthy relationships — friendships or romantic — should feel safe, respectful, and balanced.

Healthy behaviour looks like:

• honest, open communication

• mutual respect and kindness

• space for independence

• support during stress

• respecting boundaries

• celebrating your individuality

Red flags include:

• jealousy, monitoring, or checking your phone

• pressure to send photos or do things you’re not comfortable with

• constant criticism or put-downs

• isolating you from friends or hobbies

• controlling your choices, clothing, or social life

• guilt-tripping, silent treatment, or emotional manipulation

• someone making you feel scared, small, or unsure of yourself

If anything here feels familiar, you deserve support and clarity.

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✨ 4. Steps Toward Confidence, Safety & Self-Trust

You don’t have to go through things alone.
These steps can help you feel more grounded and in control:

1. Talk to someone safe

A school counsellor, teacher, trusted adult, youth worker, GP, or helpline.

2. Keep private notes

If something feels wrong, writing it down can help you recognise patterns.

3. Learn your options

Understand your rights, support services, and what steps you can take.

4. Build a personal safety plan

A simple plan for staying emotionally and physically safe.

5. Reach out early

You never need to wait for things to become “serious.”
Support exists for everyday struggles too.

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⚡ 5. When to Reach Out for Immediate Support

If you ever feel unsafe, frightened, pressured, or overwhelmed, support is available:

• 000 — Emergency (Australia)

• 1800RESPECT (24/7) — 1800 737 732

• Kids Helpline (Ages 5–25) — 1800 55 1800

• Headspace — mental health support for young adults

• Lifeline — 13 11 14

All services are confidential and judgment-free.

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🌼 6. NSW Youth Support Services

• Headspace

• Kids Helpline

• Youth Health NSW

• The Butterfly Foundation

• Legal Aid NSW (Young People’s Legal Support)

• Youth refuges and crisis accommodation

• Multicultural youth services

• LGBTQIA+ youth support

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📄 7. Downloadable Resources (PDF)

• Young Adult Empowerment Toolkit

• Personal Safety Plan

• Healthy Relationship Checklist

• Red Flag List for Teens & Young Adults

• Youth Support Directory (NSW)

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🌟 Closing Message

You deserve safety.
You deserve respect.
You deserve to feel confident in who you are becoming.

You are allowed to seek help, ask questions, set boundaries, and choose what feels right for you.

You are not alone — support is here whenever you need it.

Additional reading and reflection resources for young adults are available inside the Kohi Black app. These materials are intended for independent use and personal reflection only and do not include facilitation or support.