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

YACVic calls for a permanent ceasefire in Palestine

• We're following the advocacy of young people and calling for action to end the genocide.

• Media releases
• Youth sector

Submission to the Inquiry into vaping and tobacco controls in Victoria

• Young people's use of vapes, where and how young people learn about vaping, and how to improve services.

• Alcohol & other drugs
• Education, training and employment
• Youth sector
• Health

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

Youth Sector Survey

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

• Youth sector
• Rural and regional

Youth Peak Bodies Australia-wide call on the Government to Raise the Rate

• YACVic's joint letter to federal government to lift income support above the poverty line.

• Issues
• Housing and homelessness
• Government and youth policy
• Youth sector
• Budget

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