# Youth work/ Youth Organisations From [[Source - Belong Collective ‘We Choose to Be Here’ Why Youth Organisations Are Essential to Tackling Youth Loneliness]]: - Digital youth work has become critical - We need to ensure an asset/strengths-based model is adopted - Detached youth work is great way to engage with young people in their spaces, and it needs more funding - Youth participation is important to generating that sense of belonging - Creativity and the arts are important intervention tools # Students' Unions/ Universities ![[What helps in addressing student loneliness]] - Perhaps best way to support students is to support what they're already doing? This is based in the research - see [[Source - The How, Why and Where of Student Loneliness by Tackling Loneliness Hub]] ![[Source - Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation- US Surgeon General advisory#**What Schools and Education Departments Can Do**]] ## General interventions from Charities There are three different types of intervention that charities do. Taken from [[Source - Loneliness Interventions Across the Life-Course Executive Summary]]: - **Social support:** this is about giving people the skills to be better at making friends. ==Befriending/mentoring/peer-support programmes, followed by social and emotional skills development were the most common types==. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01haafs6y7kzww9ys15ymzkwhg)) - **Social interaction-based interventions**: This is about putting on activities that encourage friendship. ==Arts/music/culture and social activities== with multiple themes were the most common social interaction programmes. - **Psychological interventions:** This is about providing therapy, such as councelling, for those who need it. These provide targeted non-pharmacological therapeutic support/treatment and ==structured therapy interventions== ![[Source - Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation- US Surgeon General advisory#**What Community-Based Organizations Can Do**]]