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This chapter describes two community projects that have been implemented to help disadvantaged young people acquire lifelong learning skills and develop a positive outlook for their future. The first is the ‘Barnardos Australian Homework Groups Project’, a community-based program that aims to address issues such as disrupted learning due to movement through different schools, poor school attendance, lack of encouragement and support in the home environment, regular suspension from school due to disruptive behaviour, undiagnosed learning disabilities, lack of concentration in school due to distracting life problems and poor self-esteem and social skills, in a constructive and educationally sound way. The chapter provides the students’ and tutors’ perspectives of the program and makes general observations about it. The second program described in the chapter is the ‘Families Learning Together Project’. The aim of this program is to support Indigenous families to help their children’s learning through a community-based literacy and numeracy program. The chapter describes how this program, which involved staff in government and Catholic schools, Indigenous students and their parents, a local university, local artists, businesses and the general community, worked to build confidence and self esteem and at the same time created the beginnings of a learning community.