Live4life Macedon Ranges passes important milestone

News story from Australian Rural & Regional News, published 16 September 2025

Talon Gostelow, Laura Crozier and Mina Beverley, past Live4Life Macedon Ranges Crew who are now employed by Youth Live4Life as Crew Champions.

Innovative youth mental health and suicide prevention program, Live4Life, was first conceived and developed in the Macedon Ranges in 2010 — a groundbreaking response to a reported increase in anxiety, depression, self-harm and suicide amongst young people in the rural communities of the shire. 

Today, thanks to Live4Life, over 10,000 people in the Macedon Ranges have now been equipped with the skills and knowledge to support themselves and one another. To understand the first signs of mental ill-health. To know what to do, how to help, who to go to. 

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