Objective 3 objective indicators
To succeed, we will:
- increase economic inclusion and participation
- increase community participation, inclusion and connectedness
- decrease experiences of discrimination
- increase safety where people live, work, learn and play
- increase wellbeing for Aboriginal Victorians, including safety to connect with and express culture
- increase capacity for senior Victorians to age well
- improve supports for people with complex needs
- increase community resilience
- improve social recovery following emergencies
- reduce sexual violence.
Objective 3 initiatives
To meet this objective, we will:
- strengthen intergovernmental advocacy to influence the national policy agenda on disability inclusion, gender equality, LGBTIQA+ inclusion, veterans affairs, aged care, family violence and equitable access to social services and programs
- coordinate and deliver actions under strategies and plans including:
- Our promise, your future: Victoria's youth strategy 2022–2027
- Pride in our future: LGBTIQA+ strategy 2022–2032
- Our equal state: Victoria’s gender equality strategy and action plan 2023–27
- Victorian carer strategy 2025–2035
- a new State Disability Plan, which is being developed during 2026, including through extensive engagement with the disability community
- a refresh of the Ageing well action plan for 2026–2030.
- lead and support legislative reforms to protect the rights of people with disability and other people with complex needs
- deliver programs to boost youth participation and equip government stakeholders to engage more effectively with young people and the youth sector
- deliver programs to support older Victorians to age well through the Seniors Festival and supports for people experiencing or at risk of elder abuse
- deliver supports for Victorian LGBTIQA+ groups and organisations to empower their communities through all life stages. This includes funding for events celebrating LGBTIQA+ identities, culture and history, and services delivered by and for LGBTIQA+ communities.
- deliver targeted community infrastructure and commemorative grants that strengthen safe, inclusive and resilient communities, including support for scout halls, ex-service organisation facilities, war memorials and other community infrastructure
- deliver cost-of-living relief through:
- continued work with key partners to strengthen food security in Victoria
- increasing support for Victorians experiencing financial hardship through the expansion of the Good Money Program
- improving the Household Concessions Program to help Victorians in need pay their utility bills
- the nation's first Veterans Card.
- deliver mentoring, employment and education, alcohol and other drugs outreach, housing support, diversion and family therapy programs for young Victorians at risk of disengagement, homelessness or contact with the justice system
- implement a Pride in Ageing program to address the needs of ageing LGBTIQA+ Victorians and better support their connections to communities
- implement the Rainbow Tick Accreditation program to improve inclusive community and mental health services for LGBTIQA+ Victorians
- improve and expand supports for service users by:
- supporting the Victorian Government’s co-governance of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)
- driving implementation of the reforms stemming from the NDIS Review and the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability across the Victorian Government
- delivering specialist forensic disability support and treatment. This includes safe, community-based housing for people with cognitive disability who are involved in the criminal justice system
- supporting coordination and assertive outreach for people with complex needs experiencing significant service gaps and who pose a risk to community safety.
- modernise our emergency management arrangements to ensure people most at risk are well supported before, during and after emergencies.