Getting Out!

This attractive, user-friendly website (http://www.gettingout.info) has been produced by a group of youth workers in South Australia to help young people to negotiate the complex transition from living at home to independent living. While some information on this site is specific to South Australia, young people in all parts of Australia would find its general contents very useful. It provides information, advice and links to relevant services on topics such as career options, further education, employment, managing money, housing, transport, physical activity, socialising, safe partying and sex, homesickness, studying and stress management, enrolling to vote, obtaining a tax file number and Medicare card and legal issues. The website also includes a list of 'help numbers'; telephone numbers for organisations and services that young people might find useful. The website is a joint initiative of several health services in South Australia and the Department of Education and Children's Services through the Futures Connect Strategy in the Eyre Peninsula. The information contained on the website is available for sale in booklet form, while wallet cards containing the help numbers are also available for sale. Contact Lower Eyre Health Service, ph: (08) 8688 2629; email: ask@gettingout.info

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