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

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

Young leaders to champion animal welfare in bushfire affected communities

• Rural and regional
• Media releases
• Youth participation