Our values
We are guided by our four core values: inclusion, integrity, collaboration and respect.
Our values are supported by guiding principles of community and youth participation, local strength, evidence-based education, and reflection.
Our values and principles work together as pillars that help us ensure that every element of Youth Live4Life and the Live4Life model works together to create measurable, positive impact. They inform our external activities, internal operations and policies, and we work to instil our values of inclusion, integrity, collaboration and respect in the work we do with rural and regional communities. You can read more about our values and principles here.
Child Safety
Youth Live4Life is committed to living our values and principles daily and wants to ensure the safety of children and young people.
Our commitment to child safety:
All children and young people who are involved with Youth Live4Life community have a right to feel and be safe. The welfare of the young people in our care will always be our first priority and we have a zero tolerance approach to child abuse and harm. We aim to create a child safe and child-friendly environment where children and young people feel safe while improving their mental health and wellbeing.
Read our Child Safety Code of Conduct.
Lived Experience
At Youth Live4Life, we acknowledge the contributions of people with a lived experience of suicide or mental illness that helped to drive and shape the development of the Life4Life model.
We acknowledge the contributions of people with a lived experience of suicide or mental illness that have led local implementation activities in Life4Life communities.
We acknowledge the contributions of people with a lived experience of suicide or mental illness who work for Youth Life4Life to improve youth mental health and reduce suicide in regional and rural communities.
A lived experience of suicide can range from suicidal thoughts to surviving a suicide attempt, caring for someone through crisis, being bereaved by suicide or being touched by suicide in any way.
Suicide Prevention Australia
In the context of Youth Live4Life’s work, lived experience includes those with an experience of mental illness and those impacted by a suicide at an individual and/or community level.
Read Co-Founder Pauline Neil’s Lived Experience Statement.
Our policies
Youth Live4Life is committed to living our values and principles daily and is guided by our organisational policies and procedures, including our Data and Privacy Policy and Child Safety Policies. These are all available for download below. If you have any specific questions or would like to see any of our other policies, please feel free to contact us.
Corporate Governance Statement
As an organisation we recognise the importance of having a strong and robust corporate governance framework in place to ensure that Youth Live4Life meets its Board approved vision, values and charitable purpose and to ensure that the funds received by Youth Live4Life whether donated, through services provided or government funding, are appropriately managed and directed to meet the expectations of Youth Live4Life’s generous benefactors, funders and clients. It is for this reason that we have committed to not only meet each of the ACNC’s Governance Standards but also each of the ASX Recommendations which are deemed to be appropriate for a charitable not for profit organisation such as Youth Live4Life.
