Advocacy

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

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 and VU establish National Centre of Excellence in Young People and Disasters

• A National Centre of Excellence in Young People and Disasters will empower young Australians to be active agents of change in emergency management.

• Media releases
• Environment + Climate Change
• Rural and regional
• Youth sector

Submission to the Parliamentary Inquiry into the 2022 Flood Event in Victoria

• Rural and regional
• Environment + Climate Change
• Mental health and wellbeing
• Education, training and employment
• Youth sector

Analysis: 2023-24 Victorian State Budget

• Bite-size breakdowns of how the budget impacts young people and the youth sector.

• Government and youth policy
• Environment + Climate Change
• Disability
• Rural and regional
• Mental health and wellbeing
• NDIS
• Education, training and employment
• Housing and homelessness
• Transport
• Youth sector
• Migrant and refugee
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
• Youth justice
• Child protection
• LGBTIQA+
• Family violence
• Budget

IDAHOBIT Day 2023: An active call against discrimination against and vilification of LGBTIQA+ people

• We call on the Victorian Government to act urgently to expand anti-vilification laws to protect LGBTIQA+ communities from discrimination.

• Media releases
• Government and youth policy
• Youth sector
• LGBTIQA+