The Local Para Champions (LPC) program is designed to support sportspeople through the teenage years when research shows that the largest dropout rates occur. It is for this reason that the LPC program aims to provide financial assistance for sportspeople around this time, to ease the financial burden on their families, which will hopefully lead to lower dropout rates. LPC also provides support to young adults to ease the financial burden on them and their families to attend these important championships.
The lower age limit has been set at 12 years as it is around this age when ASC research shows that junior athletes start to take sport more seriously and begin competing at the level of competition that is supported by the LPC program.