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Easter fundraiser for Live4Life Benalla in memory of Lachlan
Benalla’s Gayle Golonski and her family are raising funds for Live4Life Benalla as a way of turning tragedy into something positive. Gayle set up the Lockie Project selling Easter eggs to raise money for local youth mental health initiative Live4Life Benalla.
Live4Life launches in Ballarat
The award-winning Live4Life program will roll out in eight secondary schools across the City of Ballarat in the coming months, focusing on increasing mental health knowledge amongst students, parents, teachers and other community members to reduce barriers for young people seeking help.
Susanne Lampitt awarded Live4Life Community Champion 2022
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.
Rob Mitchell MP speaks to Parliament about Live4Life’s work with young people
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 District Health repartners with Live4Life
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.
Welcome aboard, Live4Life Glenelg Crew!
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!
Live4Life a Finalist in the 7NEWS Young Achiever Awards
Exciting news Live4Life has been announced as a Finalist in the 7NEWS Young Achiever Awards for Victoria.
Baw Baw's new Live4Life Crew for 2023!
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.
A big WELCOME to the Live4Life Moira Crew for 2023!
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!
Live4Life calls for more state funding
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.
Showing off the work of Youth Live4Life
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 thank you gift for Live4Life co-founder, Sarah Hardy
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.
Leadership Great South Coast program - congrats to Cathryn!
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.
We welcome Dr Anne Aly MP, Minister for Youth, and Mr Rob Mitchell MP
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.
Exciting news! Our Live4Life Crew has been announced as YOUNG CITIZENS OF THE YEAR in the Southern Grampians.
A HUGE congratulations for this wonderful and well-deserved achievement – go team!
We are hiring!
We are seeking a COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT SUPPORT. Click the link to find out more about this position.
The results are in for LAP it UP! The final tally is $38,926 — making a splash for Youth Live4Life.
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!
Laps for Live4Life
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!
Report highlights youth mental health challenges
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 …
Making a splash for mental health
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.