
Brophy Family and Youth Services
Education
A collaborative response to youth disengagement in regional Victoria
ProjectLive4Life Goes Large: Scaling the successful Live4Life model State-wide, improving youth mental health and reducing suicide
Amount$120,000 (total) over two years
Date2020
ProgramPast Programs | Health
TRUST OBJECTIVES | PROJECT OBJECTIVES |
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Rural and regional Victoria | Providing a more coordinated, proactive, rural community driven, collaborative response to youth mental health and suicide prevention. |
Reducing inequality | Increasing equitable access to locally-embedded, evidence-based suicide prevention education, notably in under-serviced rural and regional areas. |
Enabling financial sustainability | Investing in professional strategic services and data and project management systems, to support Youth Live4Life’s organisational sustainability rigour as it scales Victoria-wide. |
Building organisational capacity | Strengthening Youth Live4Life’s leadership capabilities and core capacity to enable the scale up of a rural driven and proven youth suicide prevention model. |
Collaboration and partnership | Social Venture Partners, secondary schools, colleges and TAFEs, regional Primary Health Networks (PHN) and Local Learning and Employment Networks (LLEN), schools focused youth services, YACVic, local, State and Federal Government, Mental Health First Aid Australia, Macedon Ranges Suicide Prevention Action Group and young people. |
Building organisational capacity to enable sustainable growth
Youth Live4Life's award winning model specifically targets rural and regional youth mental health and suicide prevention. With increasing requests for its services in communities across Victoria, Youth Live4Life needed to build its organisational capacity so it could scale up effectively and meet demand.
Image Students from Years 9 and 10 volunteer to become mental health ambassadors in their school and community. Photo: Live4Life Glenelg Crew
With one in 4 young people experiencing a mental health issue in the past 12 months; and suicide being the leading cause of death in Australian young people, accounting for 1/3 of deaths, there is a high need for programs which work. This is particularly the case in rural and regional areas where the suicide rate is 40% higher, and in remote areas almost twice that, of the major city rate.
To meet the growing urgent demand for its proven model, the organisation needed to strengthen its capacity via the development of a comprehensive three-year strategic plan and implementation of critical customer relationship management software to manage relationships and core operations.
Snapshot:
“The Live4Life model has the potential to transform the state of rural youth mental health and wellbeing…not only in Victoria, but across Australia.” Mark Jankelson, Chair, Social Venture Partners Melbourne
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