Welcome to our first newsletter for 2025!
As we embark on a new year, ARACY remains steadfast in our commitment to improving the wellbeing of children and young people across Australia. This year, we’ll continue to advocate for evidence-based solutions and collaborative action, focusing on critical areas such as youth justice reform, universal healthcare improvements, and child poverty reduction. Together, let’s make 2025 a year of meaningful progress for Australia’s children.
Palix Foundation Resilience Scale Masterclass
Wednesday 5 March 2025, 9am-11.30am AEST
- Understanding Resilience: Learn how adversities, supports, and skills shape resilience and influence lifelong health and mental health.
- Core Knowledge: Gain foundational insights and a common language to communicate key resilience concepts across populations and disciplines.
- Practical Application: Discover tools to track outcomes and identify support needs for individuals, families, and communities.
Creating impact: Moving beyond the hospital walls
Wednesday 5 March 2025, 8pm-9pm AEDT
- Tackling Social Determinants: Explore how factors like housing, education, income, and language influence health outcomes and how healthcare can address these outcomes.
- Expert Insights: Gain real-world knowledge from experienced professionals on identifying problems, prioritising needs, and implementing tailored solutions from experienced professionals.
- Facilitator Highlight: Led by Associate Professor Stephanie Best from The University of Melbourne, bringing expertise in health implementation science.
Become a Young and Wise Ambassador!
Under 25 or know someone who is?
Join us as a Young and Wise Ambassador!
We are recruiting up to five ARACY Young Ambassadors aged 14 to 25 years to work in partnership with us throughout 2025 to develop our young person engagement strategy. We want to understand what opportunities would be most valuable to you, and the best ways we can engage our wider young subscribers in helpful and meaningful ways.
Applications close 31 January 2025
Protecting Children’s Futures: A Call for Climate Action and Leadership
- Climate Duty of Care: ARACY supports a Climate Duty of Care Bill to protect children’s health, education, safety, and economic security—key domains of The Nest wellbeing framework.
- Act for Children: Calls for a national framework embedding children’s rights in law, alongside appointing a Minister for Children to lead on urgent issues like climate change.
- Immediate Action: Urges Parliament to legislate a duty of care, recognise climate change as a child wellbeing issue, and prioritise policies that safeguard children’s futures.
Youth Voices Shape ARACY’s 2025-26 Budget Submission
- Youth-Led Priorities: ARACY’s 2025-26 Budget submission reflects the voices of 10,000+ children and young people, guided by the upcoming Young and Wise Report.
- Key Focus Areas: Priorities include stronger youth participation, cost of living relief, equitable mental health support, and preventing youth justice involvement.
- Thriving Youth, Thriving Australia: Learn more and read the full submission here and explore Young and Wise here.
The Future of Fee-Free TAFE: Supporting Student Success
- The Importance of Education: Education is a social determinant of health with lifelong impacts, essential for rural, remote, First Nations, and financially disadvantaged students.
- What’s Needed for Success: Adequate financial support, culturally inclusive learning environments, investment in ACCOs, and strategies for workforce retention.
- A Holistic Approach: Fee-Free TAFE is a step forward, but policies must be developed with students to address barriers and ensure long-term success.
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