Congratulations to Susanne Lampitt who has been awarded the 'Live4Life Community Champion' of 2022! Susanne has had an enormous impact on the community around her. She has delivered over 300 Mental Health First Aid Courses.

After visiting the Live4Life offices in Woodend, Rob Mitchell MP, Federal Labor Member for McEwen, spoke to Parliament about meeting Live4Life Crew and staff, and the work we are doing in rural and regional communities.

Portland Observer: Young people in the Glenelg Shire have received a further boost, with a key health agency re-signing to the award-winning Live4Life Glenelg initiative.

A HUGE welcome to the new Live4Life GLENELG Crew for 2023! Over two great days, students from across Glenelg came together for their Induction into the Live4Life Crew!

Exciting news Live4Life has been announced as a Finalist in the 7NEWS Young Achiever Awards for Victoria.

A massive shout out to Baw Baw's new Live4Life Crew for 2023! On 2 March students from across Baw Baw came together for their Induction.

On 1 March we had our first Live4Life Crew Induction for the year in Moira and we would like to give a massive shout out to the amazing students who have put their hands up to be Crew in 2023!

Star Weekly: A Woodend-based youth mental health organisation is calling for more funding from the Victorian government to scale up its rural and regional services to address its surging waitlist of communities wanting to be involved.

Star Weekly: The incredible work of Woodend-based Youth Live4Life was in the spotlight once again last week. When Youth Minister Dr Anne Aly visited the Macedon Ranges on Friday, February 10, McEwen MP Rob Mitchell took the opportunity to show her the work the youth mental health charity was doing.

A heartfelt thank you to Sarah from all the team at Youth Live4Life, for her incredible work including helping develop the award-winning Live4Life model, supporting us grow and reach more communities, and her advocacy for the mental health and wellbeing of young people living in rural and regional communities.

Congratulations to our very own Cathryn Walder, Community Engagement Coordinator, for being selected to be part of the Leadership Great South Coast program this year.

The Hon Dr Anne Aly MP, the Minister for Youth, and Mr Rob Mitchell MP, Federal Labor Member for McEwen, visited our offices on 10 February to meet with our Live4Life Crew in the Macedon Ranges.

A HUGE congratulations for this wonderful and well-deserved achievement – go team!

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LAP it UP is a fitness and fundraising challenge to swim laps for youth mental health awareness and suicide prevention in rural and regional communities. How many laps did we swim in 11 days? An astonishing 25,028 laps. That’s 625 kilometres!

Midland Express: LAP it UP has made a splash for Youth Live4Life raising $38,926. The fitness and fundraising challenge encourages people to swim laps for youth mental health awareness and suicide prevention in rural and regional communities. This year’s event on November 20 saw an incredible 25,028 laps made – that’s 625 kilometres!

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 …

Star Weekly: A Woodend charity has raised nearly $40,000 by challenging people to swim laps for youth mental health awareness and suicide prevention in regional and rural communities. Running from November 10 to 20, and the organisation said it was “blown out of the water” by how much was raised, and thanked participants for being involved.

Hamilton Spectator: Year 8 students from across the region gathered at the Hamilton Indoor Leisure and Aquatic Centre on November 11 to celebrate the Southern Grampians’ first ever Live4Life celebration event.

Australian Broker: ANZ, through its Community Foundation, has granted $389,450 to 19 charitable organisations that are delivering projects to improve financial wellbeing, housing, and environmental sustainability.