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…
Blue Light Victoria is pleased to launch our new Strategy 2024-27. This Strategy provides a road map of where we will focus our efforts over the next three years. Our 2024 – 2027 Strategy outlines how we are intending to work towards inspiring, engaging and equipping young people to be their best self. To help…
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…
Volunteers have been at the centre of everything we do since 1976! There really is “something for everyone”! National Volunteer Week is Australia’s largest annual celebration of volunteering. It’s an opportunity to showcase our wonderful volunteers and celebrate the diverse passions and talents they bring to our organisation. This year’s theme is ‘Something for Everyone’…
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…
