YACVic Rural

Analysis: 2025-26 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

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

Young people to future proof fire-affected communities

• Rural and regional
• Media releases

Youth Work Matters – an opportunity to invest in the youth sector to better support young Victorians through the COVID Recovery and beyond

• An opportunity to invest in the youth sector to better support young Victorians through the COVID Recovery and beyond.

• Youth sector
• Rural and regional

After two years of disasters, young people need a seat at the table

• Rural and regional
• Environment + Climate Change
• Youth participation
• Media releases

On the Buses: Improving rural and regional public transport using school buses’

• Transport
• Rural and regional

After bushfires and COVID-19, young people leading projects and learning skills to support local communities

• Rural and regional
• Youth participation
• Youth sector

What the State Budget 2021-2022 Means for Young People

• Budget
• Youth participation
• Youth sector
• Disability
• Rural and regional
• Education, training and employment
• Housing and homelessness
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
• Youth justice
• LGBTIQA+
• Government and youth policy