Easter fundraiser for Live4Life Benalla in memory of Lachlan
Article in The Sheppharton News by Simon Ruppert. Published 27 March 2023.
Benalla’s Gayle Golonski and her family are raising funds for Live4Life Benalla as a way of turning tragedy into something positive. In 2018 Gayle’s grandson Lachlan took his own life, a situation no family should have to go through.
Last year she decided to do her part to try to ensure no other local families do. She set up the Lockie Project selling Easter eggs to raise money for local youth mental health initiative Live4Life Benalla.
Live4Life offers vital teen mental health training to Year 8 and Year 11 students in Benalla. This training educates young people in recognising the signs and symptoms of a friend going through a mental health problem or crisis.
Since launching in Benalla in 2017 more than 1200 young people have been trained in teen mental health first-aid training. Live4Life aims to break the stigma around mental health and works to ensure everyone feels safe to seek help from those around them. Support from the community ensures that this vital work can continue to be carried out to support young people.