We’re a youth-focussed, peer-led group for discussion and support around challenging familial relationships
Project Chosen Family offers a safe space for multicultural youths to discuss challenging familial relationships, including boundary setting, family dynamics and establishing safety.
Our mission is to tackle the added barriers to early intervention in help-seeking, establishing safety, and breaking intergenerational cycles of violence faced by multicultural communities. We draw strength from harnessing the lived and living experiences of participants aged 18 to 25, whose voices and contributions enrich, empower and sustain our groups.
Inaugural Support Group
Do you often find yourself navigating challenging relationships with your family members? Do you struggle to clearly communicate your needs and set healthy boundaries within your family dynamics, or perhaps you know someone who is facing similar challenges?
Project Chosen Family's inaugural support group is for female-identifying and gender-diverse multicultural youths aged 18 to 25 who are navigating challenging familial relationships.
This peer-led support group is intended to be a safe space for discussions around communicating needs and boundaries, exploring identities, navigating safety, and re-building chosen families. The group will run throughout Term 2, 2025.
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Please visit our registration page to express your interest.
Our team will then contact you to complete an intake for us to gain an understanding of support needs, preparedness for group participation, current supports, safety planning, and goals.
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To ensure each participant receives sufficient support, our inaugural support group will be capped at 15 participants.
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At this time, our support group does not have sufficient resources to provide interpreter support.
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Participants will have the option of stepping out into a quiet room at any point during each session for breaks as needed.
Meet our team
Lew Ching Yip
Founder and Program Facilitator
As a queer woman of color and first-generation migrant, Lewching draws upon lived and living experiences of family violence and the impacts of intergenerational trauma. At 19 years old, Lewching moved to Ngunnawal Country from Singapore and started her recovery with little understanding of all that she had fled from.
Lewching is a fierce advocate for suicide and violence prevention from a cultural and intersectional lens. Outside her advocacy work, Lewching is a violence prevention practitioner with cross-sector experience across early intervention mental health, student wellbeing, youth homelessness, and suicide prevention. Lewching is passionate about decolonizing systems and services to promote cultural safety across mainstream supports for CARM communities.
Connect with Lew Ching
Get in touch
For general inquiries or further information about Project Chosen Family, please feel free to contact us using the form.
To express your interest in our support group, please visit the registration page instead.