b'GRANTSVERY SPECIAL KIDS YALARIYouth Advisory Group Six-year Boarding & Tuition Scholarship for Victorian Very Special Kids provides holistic palliative care forIndigenous StudentVictorian children and young people with life-limitingYalari provides Indigenous young people from remote, rural conditions. Very Special Kids also provides tailored supportand regional communities with scholarships to attend for their familiesthrough life, death, and bereavement. leading Australian boarding schools. Newsboys is proudly Newsboys supports VSKs Youth Advisory Group of upsupporting a Victorian student at Geelong Grammar School.to 12 young people from diverse backgrounds, who help ensure Very Special Kids meets the emotional, spiritual andYOUTH LIVE4LIFEphysical needs of young people. City of Latrobe and Hepburn ShireThe advisory group provides feedback and guidance on theLive4Life brings together whole communities to respond to development of programs, as well as important personalyouth mental health and suicide prevention.development opportunities for young people who face manyThrough events, education and networking, Live4Life challenges. aims to ensure that young people, teachers, parents and entire communities in rural and regional Victoria are better WESTERN CHANCES informed about mental ill-health.Western Chances supports talented and motivated studentsThrough mental health first aid training, young people and in the western region of Melbourne who may not otherwisecommunity members gain the skills they need to identify have an opportunity to fulfil their potential and overcomethe signs and symptoms of an emerging mental health issue barriers to educational and other success. Western Chancesbefore a crisis occurs.provides scholarships, opportunity programs and access toNewsboys is supporting the expansion of Live4Life into the mentors and networks. Students are nominated by teachersCity of Latrobe and Hepburn Shire.and are supported in secondary school and university.Geelong Chances Program Pilot NEWSBOYS FOUNDATION TRUST GRANTSIn 2024, Western Chances expanded its reach to establishWe thank The Gruppetto Fund Extension (a sub-fund of the a three-year pilot program in Geelong. In the first year,Australian Communities Foundation) for their generous Western Chances worked with six schools and awarded 37donation to the Newsboys Foundation Trust to support this scholarships. Newsboys supported the second year of thegrant.pilot program.WESTERN EDGE BOYS TO THE BUSHVictoria University Secondary College Bush Connections: Boys to the Bush Victoria In-school Residency Through mentoring and bush camps, Boys to the Bush changes lives and creates positive futures for disadvantaged The In-School Residency works with young people fromyoung males living in rural and regional Victoria.culturally diverse and low socio-economic backgrounds who live in the outer western suburbs of Melbourne. This grant supported the Boys to the Bush mentoring program for young males who have complex issues and Students from years 7 to 12 take part in 15 workshopsrequire skilled mentoring to help them develop self-over six months to create an original theatre production.belief, establish positive relationships, connection to the They are guided by professional theatre-makers andcommunity, and build vocational and life skills.learn collaboration and onstage and backstage theatre craft. Creative expression is encouraged through team-building activities, drama, improvisation and writing. Three performances were staged for the school community.WESTJUSTICELegal Services for Young People in Out-of-Home CareWorks extensively with vulnerable young people through embedded outreach legal services delivered where the young people live, learn, work and socialise. Comprehensive legal services are offered to young people in out-of-home residential care.18NEWSBOYS FOUNDATION ANNUAL REPORT 2025'