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

Young people call on Government to commit to ending youth homelessness

• Housing and homelessness
• Rural and regional
• Government and youth policy

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+