IN THE MEDIA - Benalla Rural City Council in collaboration with the Live4Life program is offering Youth Mental Health First Aid training aimed at equipping adults with vital skills to support young individuals facing mental health challenges.

IN THE MEDIA - Benalla Rural City Council in collaboration with the Live4Life program is offering youth mental health first aid training aimed at equipping adults with vital skills to support young individuals facing mental health challenges.

A big WELCOME to the Live4Life Benalla Crew for 2024! We love this time of year — bringing together Live4Life Crews across our rural communities is definitely where the real magic happens.

Spring is here and it’s a great time to celebrate everything the Benalla community has achieved this year!

'Growing a New Generation’ — Congrats to the Live4Life Benalla Crew for coming up with this great theme for 2023!

Benalla’s Live4Life crew, along with counterparts from around regional and rural Victoria, have been recognised for their work tackling mental health issues.

Benalla’s Gayle Golonski and her family are raising funds for Live4Life Benalla as a way of turning tragedy into something positive. Gayle set up the Lockie Project selling Easter eggs to raise money for local youth mental health initiative Live4Life Benalla.

Benalla Rural City has been recognised as a Mental Health First Aid Champion Community. Since implementing Live4Life in 2017, Benalla Rural City has trained over 1000 teens and 165 adults to recognise and respond to the signs of developing, worsening or crisis level mental health problems in young people.

More than 80 Year 8 students from Benalla P-12 College participated in the launch of the 2021 Live4Life Program at the Benalla Showgrounds on Wednesday 17 March 2021. The event, which included a Rotary sausage sizzle, guest speakers, ninja course and a range of activities, marked the beginning of the fifth year of the mental health initiative for young people in Benalla.

On Wednesday 26 September 2018, Youth Live4Life Inc. was awarded the Innovative Youth Project or Programs in Rural or Regional Victoria Award at the Youth Affairs Council of Victoria’s Rural Youth Awards.

Youth Live4Life, together with the Live4Life communities of Macedon Ranges Shire, Glenelg Shire and Benalla Rural City were awarded a 2018 VicHealth Award for the groundbreaking Live4Life initiative.

The 2017 Young Australian of the Year for Victoria Jason Ball recently spoke to 130 Year 8 Benalla students about being proud of who they are.

October is Victorian Mental Health Month. This year, the focus is on young people, particularly those aged 16-25.

Benalla Live4Life is a mental health education and youth suicide initiative. The program is designed to increase mental health knowledge in the community.