00:00If you're lonely, it has the health equivalent of smoking 15 cigarettes a day.
00:06Being in a regional area can be a little bit trickier. There are less resources,
00:11there's less groups to find, there's I guess less activities happening,
00:16there is a smaller population. So coming from metro to regional myself, I have found that young
00:22people are feeling socially isolated and again lack of transport, lack of events,
00:27it kind of is, well there's nothing to do so I'm just going to stay at home.
00:31It is a distressing feeling basically that there's not enough social relationships,
00:37either in quantity or quality. Sometimes it can be to just not feeling like you fit in,
00:43or that you've met sort of people with common interests, so you can be in a group and still feel
00:48lonely.
00:49This concept of social cohesion, what does it actually mean?
00:53What we're talking about is building community, right? So community development and one of the
00:59main ethos of community development is that you know you've got to come, you've got to start from
01:04where the community is and so rather than build and they will come, actually asking what they would
01:11like to make themselves feel more socially connected or less socially isolated.
01:16There's a lot of subjective I guess decisions when it comes into that kind of Gen Z space,
01:21like we have we do have the groups and that has fed from the young people and what they want
01:27and
01:27what because a lot of young people that come through aren't interested in sports so we're trying
01:31to provide that surface for them where we can do different things and get up to different things
01:36things and yeah it is tricky in regional when it is kind of like sports based.
01:41So
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