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Alannah Sander, Live4Life Youth Engagement Worker, and Laura Crozier, Crew4Life member, took part in a great session — Pathways from Participation — which explored the transition from Live4Life Crew to Crew4Life, and the life, study and work pathways youth 'alumni' can pursue and how to help get them there.

Community and youth participation are key principles of Live4Life. It was essential to apply our principles to the new logo design too. The benefit of this was an incredibly complex and rewarding process to get to this point and we could not have done it without the support of everyone in the Live4Life community.

A day of Youth Mental Health First Aid training brought together staff and representatives of the Live4Life Board and Committees for an amazing 8 hour practical session.

IN THE MEDIA - Glenelg Shire On Friday 27 October, more than 225 secondary school students from across the Glenelg Shire were on hand in Portland for Live4Life Glenelg’s annual celebration event.

On November 13, 40 Baw Baw Live4Life crew members from seven local secondary schools gathered at The Summit Adventure Park to celebrate another 12 successful months of the Live4Life program, in which more than 800 local Year 8 and 10 students completed the Teen Mental Health First Aid training.

Live4Life Glenelg celebrates the achievements of 2023! On October 27, the 43 Live4Life Crew members from Years 9 & 10 plus Year 8s from across the Glenelg Shire got together for their annual Celebration event.

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.