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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

Submission to the Inquiry into the State Education System in Victoria

  • Our submission focuses on the current state of student mental health and wellbeing, as well as best practice models and innovative approaches to support young people at school, including those who have disengaged.
  • Education, training and employment
  • Mental health and wellbeing
  • Government and youth policy
  • LGBTIQA+

Analysis: 2023-24 Victorian State Budget

  • Bite-size breakdowns of how the budget impacts young people and the youth sector.
  • Government and youth policy
  • Environment + Climate Change
  • Disability
  • Rural and regional
  • Mental health and wellbeing
  • NDIS
  • Education, training and employment
  • Housing and homelessness
  • Transport
  • Youth sector
  • Migrant and refugee
  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
  • Youth justice
  • Child protection
  • LGBTIQA+
  • Family violence
  • Budget

IDAHOBIT Day 2023: An active call against discrimination against and vilification of LGBTIQA+ people

  • We call on the Victorian Government to act urgently to expand anti-vilification laws to protect LGBTIQA+ communities from discrimination.
  • Media releases
  • Government and youth policy
  • Youth sector
  • LGBTIQA+

Analysis: 2023-24 Federal Budget

  • This budget has brought limited relief to ease rising cost-of-living pressures. Young people will benefit from some measures announced, but there’s still a long way to go.
  • Government and youth policy
  • Environment + Climate Change
  • Disability
  • Rural and regional
  • Mental health and wellbeing
  • NDIS
  • Education, training and employment
  • Housing and homelessness
  • Transport
  • Youth sector
  • Migrant and refugee
  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
  • LGBTIQA+
  • Health
  • Family violence
  • COVID-19
  • Budget

YACVic Board Statement Against Transphobia

  • Media releases
  • LGBTIQA+

Healthy Equal Youth (HEY) Grants to support LGBTIQA+ youth mental health

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

Suicide Prevention and Response Strategy Submission: Improving outcomes for LGBTIQA+ young people

  • Suicide Prevention and Response Strategy Submission
  • LGBTIQA+
  • Mental health and wellbeing
  • Government and youth policy
  • Rural and regional