Report highlights youth mental health challenges

Read the full article from Elsie Lange in the Star Weekly here. Published 2 December 2022.

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

Star Weekly: Mental health was one of the biggest personal challenges faced by 27 per cent of Victoria’s young people in the last year and Woodend-based mental health charity Youth Live4Life deals with the issue locally.

Released this week, Mission Australia Youth Survey 2022 collated the responses of 5097 young people aged between 15 and 19 in the state, from April to August this year, with school, mental health, COVID-19 and relationship challenges the key themes of their responses.

Nationwide, the main issues concerning young people were the environment (54 per cent), equity and discrimination (36.3 per cent) and mental health (34.4 per cent).

Youth Live4Life chief executive Bernard Galbally said he wasn’t surprised by the figures.

“That’s what we’re hearing from our communities,” he said.

Read full article here.