Live4Life calls for more state funding

Read the full article from Elsie Lange in the Star Weekly here. Published 10 February 2023.

A Woodend-based youth mental health organisation is calling for more funding from the Victorian government to scale up its rural and regional services to address its surging waitlist of communities wanting to be involved.

Live4Life is urging the government to financially support its evidence-based suicide prevention models for young people all over Victoria. The group now operates in nine rural communities across the state, but have a waitlist of another 20.

With the state government budget considerations under way for its release in May, the group’s call is timely.

Read the full article here.

Image Description: Youth Live4Life chief executive Bernard Galbally with students Isabella and Paris. (Supplied: Kim Selby)