YACVic Rural

Submission to the 2025-26 Victorian State Budget

• YACVic has released its submission to the 2025-26 Victorian State Budget on behalf of the youth sector.

• Media releases
• Housing and homelessness
• Youth sector
• Health
• Budget
• Rural and regional

Youth Affairs Council Victoria 2024 Listening Tour Wrap Up

• Explore insights from young people, youth workers, and stakeholders across Victoria. This report captures the voices and priorities that will shape YACVic’s advocacy, policy, and programs.

• Media releases
• Housing and homelessness
• Youth sector
• Health
• Rural and regional
• Mental health and wellbeing
• Education, training and employment
• Transport
• Government and youth policy
• Youth participation
• Youth justice

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

2021-22 State Budget makes historic investment in youth mental health for a generation slammed by bushfires and COVID-19

• Media releases
• Environment + Climate Change
• Rural and regional
• Mental health and wellbeing
• Education, training and employment
• Media releases
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
• Youth justice
• Family violence
• COVID-19
• Government and youth policy
• Budget

Say It Loud in Your Crowd

• Mental health guide and resource designed and led by young people for young people in rural and regional communities.
  

• Mental health and wellbeing
• Rural and regional
• Media releases
• Youth participation

YACVic’s Summary on Youth Mental Health from the Royal Commission’s Final Report

• Mental health and wellbeing
• Rural and regional
• Housing and homelessness
• Government and youth policy
• Youth participation
• Youth justice

Victoria’s State Budget is the First Step in Our Collective COVID-19 Recovery

• Government and youth policy
• Environment + Climate Change
• Disability
• Rural and regional
• Mental health and wellbeing
• Education, training and employment
• Housing and homelessness
• Youth sector
• Youth justice
• LGBTIQA+
• COVID-19
• Budget

Rural Youth Awards to Showcase Positive Stories from COVID-19

• Rural and regional
• Media releases
• Youth participation
• Youth sector