The Warragul and Drouin Gazette: Larder Park played host to 900 Year 8 students for the official Baw Baw Shire Live4Life launch on Thursday. Students spent the day learning about mental health and hearing from guest speakers and Live4Life crew members from local schools. Live4Life is a health promotion charity that operates across six rural and regional Victorian communities. It aims to improve the lives of young people through mental health education and suicide prevention.

The Ballarat Times: The Friends of India Network held their fifth fundraising dinner with proceeds going towards the Ballarat and District Suicide Prevention Network. The fundraiser’s cause changes yearly, and FIN president Dr Sanjay Sharma said their latest is particularly relevant. “We’re wanting to engage with the schools’ mental health program through the Network and their Live4Life Program which will benefit almost 5000 young people.”

What a turnout! Over 900 Year 8 students headed to Lardner Park for the recent launch of Live4Life Baw Baw. With beautiful words from Live4Life Crew Kyle and Laura about their own lived experience – "you could hear a pin drop" – a DJ and over 1000 snags sizzled (thanks Rotary!), it was a wonderful day to celebrate getting together.

Future Generation, one of Australia’s biggest private funders of youth mental health, has unveiled 14 new not-for-profit social impact partners, with a social investment focus on prevention and wellbeing of youth mental health.

We are honoured that Youth Live4Life has been selected as one of those partners.

Would you like the Live4Life program in your community? Youth Live4Life has opened its Expression of Interest process.

We are looking to engage with communities across Australia who would like to implement the award-winning Live4Life model.

Through funding support from the Australian Government and the State Trustees Australia Foundation, we will work with three Victorian communities and one community outside Victoria.

A huge thank you to everyone who came along to our Spring into Winter Annual Dinner. It was a great success and so wonderful to catch up again with everyone in person! This was our third Annual Dinner and we have now raised over $80,000, with this year being our most successful to date. Your donations go directly towards helping us expand our work with rural communities. Here's a highlights package!

The Warragul and Drouin Gazette: A further 27 secondary students from throughout Baw Baw Shire have been inducted into the Live4Life Crew. The induction held at the West Gippsland Arts Centre is the first step for the students in years nine and 10 becoming community leaders and mental health ambassadors. They have committed to work collaboratively to reduce the stigma of mental ill health within their communities and decided on a theme for the year which will be announced at an upcoming launch function.

From our CEO Bernard Galbally, a big thanks to everyone who has donated to Youth Live4Life – to support our important work empowering regional communities to improve youth mental health and reduce youth suicide.

If you haven't had a chance to donate yet, there's still time.

The Maryborough District Advertiser: One organisation that the Central Goldfields Shire has partnered with in our fight for better is Live4Life.

I had the pleasure of meeting some of the team from Live4Life recently and their enthusiasm and vision for our community is truly inspirational.

The Sentinel Times: Celebrating the first year in Bass Coast and South Gippsland shires, 45 Year 9 students from secondary colleges across the district participated in their crew induction today at RACV Inverloch.

The Star Weekly: Youth Live4Life has been granted more than $750,000 over three years to support young peoples’ mental health and wellbeing across regional and rural Victoria. State Trustees Australia Foundation provided the grant to recognise the vital role Youth Live4Life plays as the only mental health education and youth suicide prevention model designed for rural and regional communities in the state. Youth Live4Life chief executive Bernard Galbally said the grant would help bring three new communities into the model.

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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