Youth Live4Life has been awarded a State Trustees Australia Foundation Emotional Wellbeing grant for $750,000 over three years. This grant will help us to expand our program into more rural communities.

State Trustees CEO, John Velegrinis, said Youth Live4Life plays a vital role as the only mental health education and youth suicide prevention model specifically designed for rural and regional communities in Victoria.

The Star Weekly: Macedon Ranges council (MRSC) has been recognised for its unwavering commitment to improving the mental health of young people in the region. Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) Australia recognised the council with a ‘Mental Health First Aid Champion Community’ award, because of how hard it works to tackle the high rates of mental illness.

Following pandemic lockdowns and event restrictions, students from across the Glenelg Shire have come together for the first time in two years to successfully launch the Live4Life Glenelg program for 2022.

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We've been working together to launch Live4Life in Gippsland's Bass Coast and South Gippsland Shires remotely since last year. Today we all finally got together in beautiful Inverloch.

“We are thrilled to have secured funding to pilot Live4Life in one interstate region in 2023, and to activate our first interstate partnership by 2024” said CEO Bernard Galbally.

“This grant will enable us to both trial the award-winning Live4Life program and complete a thorough evaluation of its impact on the local community” explained Mr Galbally.

"In uncertain times when the nation lived under public health orders and Australians grappled with the COVID-19 pandemic we have seen growth and adaptability. During lockdowns and school closures our communities and team worked together to improve youth mental health." Bernard Galbally CEO

Live4Life Bass Coast and South Gippsland launch Mental Health First Aid instructor training for local community members interested in training as Teen and/or Youth Mental Health First Aid Instructors.

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You’ll focus on developing and executing external-facing communications, working with the Youth Live4Life team and with young people to ensure our content is meaningful and reflective of our work.

Georgie loves working with people on projects that can make a difference. Based on a rural property in Bass Coast, Georgie brings extensive partnership and project management skills and great knowledge of the education sector to her role as the Live4Life Coordinator for Bass Coast and South Gippsland.

As the staggering effects of the pandemic on the mental health of young people becomes apparent there is an urgent need to focus on the mental health of young people in our regional community, this is where Live4Life comes in, the award-winning youth mental health model is being rolled out across the Central Goldfields shire this year.

Charlie Sawyer-Basset

Portland Observer

The impact of the pandemic on young people has been substantial. There is a real and immediate need to focus on the mental health of young people in our community, Youth Live4Life, in collaboration with local communities are seeking suitably qualified and experienced community members to become Teen Mental Health First Aid instructors.

Cobram Anglican Grammar School student Tahlia Muller said she thought the program would help generate understanding within the school community.

“I think it’ll help them understand more what other people are going though and what experience they have to face, and how to help,” she said.

“I think it’ll be pretty effective. It brings fun to the community and since COVID-19, it will just like lift the mood.”

Mental Health First Aid® has recognised Glenelg Shire as a ‘Champion Community’ for its commitment to improving the mental health of young people and the adults who support them.

Live4Life Baw Baw was launched in 2020 and is delivered in partnership with all secondary schools and other education providers in Baw Baw as well as six community agencies. 

Sara Cogo has dedicated her professional career to supporting and working with young people and their communities. Based in Gippsland, Sara brings a wealth of experience working in partnerships with government and non-government organisations and has extensive skills in community building and creating lasting change in rural communities.

As students return to the classroom for yet another year of learning in the midst of a pandemic there is an immediate need to focus on the mental health of young people in our community.  With additional funding support from Portland Aluminium the award-winning Youth Mental Health model Live4Life will be supported to become completely embedded and sustainable in Glenelg. 

As students return to the classroom for their third year of learning in the midst of a pandemic there is a real and immediate need to focus on the mental health of young people in our community, this is where Live4Life comes in.

Meet Matilda - Crew4Life Member. Crew4Life Members are former Live4Life Crew members who are passionate about continuing to promote Live4Life, reducing the stigma around mental health and helping to reduce suicide.