Congratulations to Susanne Lampitt who has been awarded the 'Live4Life Community Champion' of 2022! Susanne has had an enormous impact on the community around her. She has delivered over 300 Mental Health First Aid Courses.

After visiting the Live4Life offices in Woodend, Rob Mitchell MP, Federal Labor Member for McEwen, spoke to Parliament about meeting Live4Life Crew and staff, and the work we are doing in rural and regional communities.

Star Weekly: 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.

A heartfelt thank you to Sarah from all the team at Youth Live4Life, for her incredible work including helping develop the award-winning Live4Life model, supporting us grow and reach more communities, and her advocacy for the mental health and wellbeing of young people living in rural and regional communities.

Congratulations to our very own Cathryn Walder, Community Engagement Coordinator, for being selected to be part of the Leadership Great South Coast program this year.

The Hon Dr Anne Aly MP, the Minister for Youth, and Mr Rob Mitchell MP, Federal Labor Member for McEwen, visited our offices on 10 February to meet with our Live4Life Crew in the Macedon Ranges.

LAP it UP is a fitness and fundraising challenge to swim laps for youth mental health awareness and suicide prevention in rural and regional communities. How many laps did we swim in 11 days? An astonishing 25,028 laps. That’s 625 kilometres!

Midland Express: LAP it UP has made a splash for Youth Live4Life raising $38,926. The fitness and fundraising challenge encourages people to swim laps for youth mental health awareness and suicide prevention in rural and regional communities. This year’s event on November 20 saw an incredible 25,028 laps made – that’s 625 kilometres!

Star Weekly: A Woodend charity has raised nearly $40,000 by challenging people to swim laps for youth mental health awareness and suicide prevention in regional and rural communities. Running from November 10 to 20, and the organisation said it was “blown out of the water” by how much was raised, and thanked participants for being involved.

The $20,000 grant will go towards delivery of suicide prevention and mental health education in Ballarat. ANZ today announced it has granted $389,450 through its Community Foundation, to 19 charitable organisations that are delivering projects to improve financial wellbeing, housing and environmental sustainability.

Midland Express: In 2018, father and daughter team , Sean and Kirsten McKinney, hosted an event at their local Gisborne pool with the aim to run a continual relay and swim 2866 laps (2866 being the number of Australians that suicided in 2016).

The Ballarat Times: The money for BSPN will go towards introducing the Live4Life youth mental health five-year program, which chair Des Hudson said will be an exciting opportunity for the city. “This will be the largest community that the Live 4 Life team have looked at building a community network of support,” he said.

How many laps can you swim in 11 days? Join us for LAP it UP – Youth Live4Life's fitness and fundraising challenge to swim laps for youth mental health awareness and suicide prevention in rural & regional communities.

CREW CAMP 2022 was a blast! Overcoming nerves on the giant swing, taking part in media training for storytelling, learning about leadership and kindness, archery, dance battles with Movement Zone Dance Studio.

The Ballarat Times: FRIENDS of India Network’s 2022 charity cricket match and black-tie gala dinner have been successful in raising funds for the Ballarat and District Suicide Prevention Network. The FIN community and their guests generated $75,000 this year which will benefit Ballarat Youth Services-led mental health program Live4Life, expected to reach 20,000 young people in schools over five years.

The Ballarat Times: The Friends of India Network held their fifth fundraising dinner with proceeds going towards the Ballarat and District Suicide Prevention Network. The fundraiser’s cause changes yearly, and FIN president Dr Sanjay Sharma said their latest is particularly relevant. “We’re wanting to engage with the schools’ mental health program through the Network and their Live4Life Program which will benefit almost 5000 young people.”

Future Generation, one of Australia’s biggest private funders of youth mental health, has unveiled 14 new not-for-profit social impact partners, with a social investment focus on prevention and wellbeing of youth mental health.

We are honoured that Youth Live4Life has been selected as one of those partners.

Would you like the Live4Life program in your community? Youth Live4Life has opened its Expression of Interest process.

We are looking to engage with communities across Australia who would like to implement the award-winning Live4Life model.

Through funding support from the Australian Government and the State Trustees Australia Foundation, we will work with three Victorian communities and one community outside Victoria.