2025-26 Budget: YACVic welcomes stability for youth services, urges stronger action on housing

  • YACVic’s response to the 2025–26 Victorian State Budget, including key wins, gaps, and what it means for young people across Victoria.
  • Media releases
  • Housing and homelessness
  • Youth sector
  • Health
  • Budget
  • Rural and regional

2025-26 Federal Budget summary: what does the budget mean for young people?

  • Budget
  • Rural and regional
  • Housing and homelessness
  • Government and youth policy
  • Media releases
  • Disability
  • Mental health and wellbeing
  • NDIS
  • Education, training and employment
  • Youth sector
  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
  • Youth justice
  • Health

Healthy Equal Youth (HEY) Round 14: Advocacy and activism

  • YACVic will deliver over $102,000 in Round 14 of the HEY Grants funding to thirteen projects.
  • LGBTIQA+
  • Rural and regional
  • Media releases
  • Youth sector

IDAHOBIT Day 2025: Amplifying Young LGBTIQA+ Voices

  • LGBTIQA+
  • Rural and regional
  • Media releases
  • Youth sector
  • Mental health and wellbeing
  • Youth participation

Rural Youth Awards to be celebrated at Parliament House

  • Media releases
  • Environment + Climate Change
  • Rural and regional
  • Mental health and wellbeing
  • Government and youth policy
  • Youth participation
  • Youth sector

Joe Ball announced as the new Victorian Commissioner for LGBTIQA+ Communities

  • LGBTIQA+
  • Rural and regional
  • Mental health and wellbeing
  • Government and youth policy
  • Youth sector
  • Media releases

IDAHOBIT Day 2024: Let’s all make sure that ‘No One Is Left Behind’

  • Media releases
  • Mental health and wellbeing
  • Government and youth policy
  • Youth sector
  • LGBTIQA+

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