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Youth Work Matters

  • Youth Work Matters is our collective call for the Victorian Government to make a historic investment into Victoria's young people.

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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

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

Analysis of the Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System's Final Report

  • YACVic's detailed analysis of the recommendations of the final report from the Royal Commission into Victoria's Mental Health System
  • Mental health and wellbeing
  • Disability
  • Government and youth policy
  • Youth sector
  • Migrant and refugee
  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
  • LGBTIQA+

Statement on Public Housing Lockdown

  • COVID-19
  • Mental health and wellbeing
  • Housing and homelessness
  • Government and youth policy
  • Media releases
  • Migrant and refugee

A ‘leading’ youth justice system is one where children under 14 are not imprisoned

  • Media releases
  • Migrant and refugee
  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
  • Child protection
  • Youth justice