YACVic Rural

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

Religious Freedom Bills create serious risks for young people

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

HEY Grants: Communities over Victoria are creating innovative initiatives for LGBTIQA+ young people’s mental health

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

YACVic’s Strategic Plan 2020-22 will empower and support young people in changing and increasingly complex times

• Media releases
• Rural and regional
• Youth sector
• Disability
• Government and youth policy

How Climate Change Affects Young People

• Environment + Climate Change
• Rural and regional
• Government and youth policy
• Youth participation

Young people are providing solutions to sexual health services in the Mallee

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

Youth Peak Bodies Across Australia Call on the Government to Raise the Rate

• Media releases
• Rural and regional
• Government and youth policy
• Youth sector