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

Healthy Equal Youth (HEY) Round 14: Advocacy and activism

• YACVic will deliver over $102,000 in Round 14 of the HEY Grants funding to thirteen projects.

• LGBTIQA+
• Rural and regional
• Media releases
• Youth sector

IDAHOBIT Day 2025: Amplifying Young LGBTIQA+ Voices

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

Submission to the Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Bill 2024

• Social Media
• Rural and regional
• Mental health and wellbeing
• Government and youth policy
• Issues

New report highlights young people's perspectives on social media impact

• Social Media
• Mental health and wellbeing
• Issues
• Rural and regional
• Government and youth policy

Rural Youth Awards to be celebrated at Parliament House

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

Joe Ball announced as the new Victorian Commissioner for LGBTIQA+ Communities

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