YACVic Rural

2025-26 Federal Budget summary: what does the budget mean for young people?

• Budget
• Rural and regional
• Housing and homelessness
• Government and youth policy
• Media releases
• Disability
• Mental health and wellbeing
• NDIS
• Education, training and employment
• Youth sector
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
• Youth justice
• Health

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

Federal Government must follow urgent recommendation to increase income support for young people

• Media releases
• Rural and regional
• Education, training and employment

Healthy Equal Youth (HEY) Grants to support LGBTIQA+ youth mental health

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

‘Yeah Nah’: Young people to lead consent education across Victoria

• Media releases
• Rural and regional
• Youth participation
• Health

Suicide Prevention and Response Strategy Submission: Improving outcomes for LGBTIQA+ young people

• Suicide Prevention and Response Strategy Submission

• LGBTIQA+
• Mental health and wellbeing
• Government and youth policy
• Rural and regional

Young people to future proof fire-affected communities

• Rural and regional
• Media releases

Youth Work Matters – an opportunity to invest in the youth sector to better support young Victorians through the COVID Recovery and beyond

• An opportunity to invest in the youth sector to better support young Victorians through the COVID Recovery and beyond.

• Youth sector
• Rural and regional