Advocacy

Analysis: 2024-25 Victorian Budget

• Budget
• Environment + Climate Change
• Disability
• Rural and regional
• Mental health and wellbeing
• Education, training and employment
• Housing and homelessness
• Transport
• Government and youth policy
• Youth sector
• Migrant and refugee
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
• Youth justice
• Child protection
• LGBTIQA+
• Health
• Family violence
• Alcohol & other drugs

2024-25 Victorian Budget: Steps forward on misogyny, health; lagging on housing, mental health

• In a challenging economic environment, the 2024-25 Victorian Budget mostly maintains youth programs and invests in health, but falls short on crucial support for housing and mental health.

• Media releases
• Housing and homelessness
• Youth sector
• Health
• Budget
• Rural and regional

Letter: Victorian Government must deliver their promise of 500 housing places for young people with mental health challenges

• Urgent call for action: Victorian Government must deliver their promise of 500 housing places for young people with mental health challenges.

• Housing and homelessness
• LGBTIQA+
• Rural and regional

Youth Housing and Homelessness Alliance: Joint Statement to government response to Homelessness Inquiry

• What will it take for the Victorian Government to properly address youth homelessness?

• Housing and homelessness
• Rural and regional
• Government and youth policy
• Youth sector
• Infrastructure

Pave the Way: Investing in the Safety and Futures of the Next Generation

• Our joint submission to Victoria's action plan to end family violence.

• Family violence
• Rural and regional
• Housing and homelessness

Youth Sector Survey

• Contribute to our longitudinal study that builds evidence about our profession and powers advocacy.

• Youth sector
• Rural and regional

Healthy Equal Youth funding to support LGBTQIA+ young people

• Round 13 of the HEY Grants will see twelve projects share more than $101,000 of HEY Grants funding.

• LGBTIQA+
• Rural and regional
• Media releases
• Youth sector

Victorian workers to take rural youth and community services from Potholes to Possibilities

• YACVic is bringing together youth and community service workers across the state to address key opportunities at our conference in Bendigo, 22-24 November.

• Media releases
• Youth sector
• Rural and regional