Vancouver implements programs to help connect people experiencing loneliness GlobeBC
program, which provides money and an ideas coach to help people come up with initiatives that help them connect, such as community gardens, community cleanups, block parties, games nights and soccer programs, Ms. Winchell says.The only stumbling block they’ve encountered, she says, is that some people have been put off applying for this fund because they think their idea is not big enough to warrant funding or worry the process will be too onerous.
“Most of us are from somewhere else, and most of us don’t have those deep intergenerational ties into Vancouver. There’s lots of great reasons why people choose to live here, but it can be a hard place to make friends. I’ve heard that anecdotally, and now we have the evidence behind it,” she says. Loneliness and social isolation are global issues, says Seattle-based international community-building expert. Mr. Diers teaches community organizing and development at the University of Washington and serves on the faculty of the Asset-Based Community Development Institute.
“But that’s just the impact on the individual. Then there’s the societal impact when people aren’t connected, you get all these other problems,” he says.
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