Youth Live4Life

Live4Life is a registered health promotion charity, bringing together rural and regional communities to improve youth mental health and reduce suicide.

We do this by empowering communities to implement the Live4Life model. Ground-breaking and award-winning, Live4Life is evidence-based and evaluated — the only youth mental health education and suicide prevention model designed specifically for rural and regional communities, where the suicide rate is 40% higher than urban areas and where 63% of young people are unable to access mental health services (Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System, Interim Report, 2018–19).

Live4Life communities deliver evidence-based mental health education in schools and the wider community, create local partnerships (schools, councils, local services and community organisations, often in first-time-ever collaborations), to lead conversations about mental health, and promote young leaders as Mental Health Ambassadors in the ‘Crew’. Informed by lived experience, Live4Life is a peer-led model developed in consultation with young people, placing young people at the heart of what we do.

Our immediate purpose is to improve mental health for young people and reduce suicide in rural communities by:
– Removing barriers that prevent young people from seeking help
– Decreasing mental health stigma
– Increasing awareness of local professional help
– Improving the mental health knowledge of secondary school-aged students, teachers, parents, carers and community members
– Building community resilience in addressing mental ill-health

Our vision is that all rural Victorian communities have the capacity to support, improve and invest in their young people’s mental health and wellbeing.

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