A big thank you for generously printing all our LAP it UP and Annual Dinner posters. We love to see our posters out and about in Live4Life communities and beyond!

September saw the Live4Life Moira Crew & Partnership Group mark the year’s achievements with a spectacular Mental Health Expo at Cobram Sports Stadium.

As spring arrives in the Southern Grampians, what better time to stage a 'Spring Carnival' celebration for our Live4Life community.

It was great to have Prof Nicola Reavley, Dr Lakshmi Neelakantan and Nina Logan from The University of Melbourne's Centre for Mental Health visit us in Woodend recently. We are thrilled to be working with this highly experienced research team in the coming months on two core evaluation projects of the Live4Life program and its impact.

IN THE MEDIA - Sentinel Times Youth mental health and suicide prevention provided the motivation for South Gippsland Shire councillor Clare Williams to swim 1000 laps of the pool at Leongatha’s SPLASH centre, taking part in LAP it UP, an initiative of Youth Live4Life.

IN THE MEDIA - Hamilton Spectator Southern Grampians Year 8 Students and community members gathered on Wednesday to celebrate our young people’s achievements and our local community’s work to strengthen mental health through the delivery of Live4Life.

Spring is here and it’s a great time to celebrate everything the Benalla community has achieved this year!

For the second year running, the entrepreneurial students of Braemar College have turned Wednesdays into a hot jam doughnut fundraising tour de force raising money for Live4Life.

The results are in for LAP it UP! The remarkable final tally is $38,050 — making a big splash for Youth Live4Life!

October saw the Live4Life Macedon Ranges community pack out the theatre at Braemar College for a grand celebration of the year’s achievements.

MEET CLARE, our LAP it UP Champion from Leongatha — and the Deputy Mayor of South Gippsland Shire — who learnt to swim in her younger years as a student but when she became an adult, her swimming stopped.

We are thrilled to be a finalist for the Awards Australia Charitable Foundation Mental Health and Wellbeing Award for 2023 at the Victorian Community Achievement Awards Australia.

Share your experiences of Life after being a Live4Life Crew Member! Were you a member of a Live4Life Crew in Macedon, Benalla or Glenelg between 2010 and 2020? AND have you left school? If so... WE WANT YOU! Come and take part in an interview about your experiences after high school.

Tomorrow, Australians will have their say in a referendum about whether to change the Constitution to recognise the First Peoples of Australia by establishing a body called the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice. Youth Live4Life is proud to offer its support for the YES campaign.

We’re looking forward to celebrating the last day of LAP it UP, this Sunday 15 October — around the country! If you’re nearby, please join us at our event finale at the Kyneton Toyota Sports & Aquatic Centre to swim your final laps, meet the LAP it UP team and come together to acknowledge your achievements!

IN THE MEDIA - Portland Observer Live4Life held their annual dinner recently to celebrate their achievements and positive impact on young people in regional communities.

On World Mental Health Day, we want to give a HUGE shout out to all our Live4Life Crews, Crew4Life members, Support Workers, School and Community Partnership Groups and Staff for the tireless work they do to support the mental health of young people in rural and regional communities.

MEET CALEB, our LAP it UP Champion from Lancefield in the Macedon Ranges, who started swimming when he was just 6 months old at Palmwoods Aquatic Centre on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland.

At the start of the week in the country town of Daylesford, Live4Life had its first ever face to face Community of Practice meeting with Live4Life local Coordinators and Crew Support Workers coming along from many different locations across Victoria and all the way from Break O'Day in Tasmania.

Nick Glass, a Year 11 student from Ballarat High School, rode his motorbike almost 300km and raised $500 for Youth Live4Life Ballarat.