Advocacy

2024-25 Victorian Budget: Steps forward on misogyny, health; lagging on housing, mental health

• In a challenging economic environment, the 2024-25 Victorian Budget mostly maintains youth programs and invests in health, but falls short on crucial support for housing and mental health.

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

YACVic calls for a permanent ceasefire in Palestine

• We're following the advocacy of young people and calling for action to end the genocide.

• Media releases
• Youth sector

Victoria’s legal system must help, not harm, children and Aboriginal people

• Media releases
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
• Youth justice
• Child protection
• Health

Three months on from the Voice to Parliament referendum, we stand in solidarity with First Peoples

• Racism has no place in Australia. 26 January is not a date to celebrate.

• Media releases
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander

Healthy Equal Youth funding to support LGBTQIA+ young people

• Round 13 of the HEY Grants will see twelve projects share more than $101,000 of HEY Grants funding.

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

YACVic appoints Mary Nega as new CEO

• Welcome to our new CEO, starting 15 January 2024.

• Media releases

Victorian workers to take rural youth and community services from Potholes to Possibilities

• YACVic is bringing together youth and community service workers across the state to address key opportunities at our conference in Bendigo, 22-24 November.

• Media releases
• Youth sector
• Rural and regional

YACVic encourages young people and youth agencies to continue the ongoing work of reconciliation following the referendum

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
• Media releases