Today the Federal Attorney General, the Hon. Mark Dreyfus, announced funding for Blue Light Victoria under the U25-GO Program. Over the next 18 months we will implement a variety of programs that will aim to re-engage at-risk youth with education, reduce anti-social behaviour, and foster stronger connections with their families and communities. Programs will be
At last week’s Resilient Australia Awards Victorian ceremony, DASH was awarded Highly Commended for the Resilient Australia Community Award – great recognition for the hard work and dedication of the many people involved in our DASH program since the pilot in 2022. DASH was developed to address the urgent needs of Victorian young people impacted
Blue Light Victoria volunteer, Deb Robertson is a finalist in the Westfield Plenty Valley Local Heroes campaign. Her contribution has been extrodinary! Deb Robertson, a retired police officer with 41 years of service, continues to give back to her community by volunteering to help at-risk young people. Deb has spent the last 13 years volunteering
We would like to acknowledge funding support from the FRRR’s Strengthening Rural Communities (SRC) Prepare and Recover program for funding DASH programs in East Gippsland. The program supports communities in remote, rural and regional communities across Australia to implement initiatives that prevent and prepare for future climate related impacts, or recover from existing disasters in
For over 10 years, Leanne Bright has been involved with Blue Light. As a Victoria Police Youth Resource Officer at the Yarra Blue Light branch, she was involved with many programs and initiatives that assisted the local CALD communities in and around the City of Yarra. This experience led to contributing more projects including 2’s
This week has seen an opinion piece written by The Age’s Simon Taylor, discussing rising youth crime and the lack of programs and events available to young people. Speaking about possible solutions, he mentions the iconic Blue Light Disco – “that they are a brilliant way of knowing exactly where all the teens in a