A Hunter research centre says $90,000 in funding will help it develop much need education material for young people with autoimmune illnesses.
The Autoimmune Resource and Research Centre says despite the rise of youth diagnosis of illnesses like lupus, health support services and resources are not meeting their needs.
The funding from the nib foundation will allow the centre to develop printed and online information catering to young people.
Executive Officer Marline Squance says the centre will be talking to children and their parents to find out exactly what resources they need.
"For example, do they need something to be written up for school, so that the child particularly can explain things or have things explained for them to school teachers so it makes their life at school a little bit easier," she said.
"The other thing is we could find out whether they want more online resources, or they want pictorial resources rather word resources."