Joint statement on youth mental health priorities
Australia is experiencing a youth mental health crisis. It is now urgent that we take action. Today, ARACY has joined the nation’s leading youth mental health organisations to call for the implementation of a six-point action plan – one that will tackle this crisis, reflect the overwhelming public support for action, and most importantly, ensure all […]
New WA Children’s Funders Alliance to Help Kids and Families Thrive
MEDIA RELEASEFor immediate release – 18 March 2025 Today marks the launch of an exciting new collaboration aimed at improving outcomes for children and young people in Western Australia, following the formalisation of the WA Children’s Funders Alliance, a group that brings together leading philanthropists and funders to identify, share, and build funding opportunities that […]
ARACY welcomes the findings of the Senate Inquiry’s Interim Report into Australia’s youth justice and incarceration system
“When it comes to Youth Justice, we have a national responsibility to raise the National Minimum Standards. The Interim Report on Youth Justice and Incarceration released last week highlights the urgent need for national reform, reinforcing what research has long shown: punitive approaches don’t work, but early intervention, diversion, and support do. Every child and […]
