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Speaker 1: Many of you will know about are You Okay Day?

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Speaker 1: It encourages people to check in on their family and

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Speaker 1: friends who might be struggling with life and well. The

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Speaker 1: organization behind the initiative is this week hosting a series

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Speaker 1: of events in Darwin to help people connect and have

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Speaker 1: those conversations. The first is getting underway today and joining

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Speaker 1: us on the line to tell us more is are

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Speaker 1: You Okay? Campaign Manager Stephen Sartor. Good morning to you, Stephen.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Katie, Thanks so much for having me.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for your time. Now, firstly, why is

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Speaker 1: it so important to be checking in with people year

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Speaker 1: round and not just on are You Okay?

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Speaker 2: Day? Well, that's exactly Yeah. I think we're at that

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Speaker 2: point where we're seeing a lot more people are understanding

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Speaker 2: that message and all the challenges of life, especially the

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Speaker 2: cost of living. Here in the teractery, we've got challenges

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Speaker 2: as well, and all of these things really impact our

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Speaker 2: mental health and that well being, and so that's why

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Speaker 2: it's really important that we're looking out for our friends

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Speaker 2: and family and asking that really simple question.

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Speaker 1: Stephen, have you found that there has been sort of

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Speaker 1: a greater demand for you know, for people sort of

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Speaker 1: needing support as a result of the cost of living

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Speaker 1: pressures and some of what we are dealing with at

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Speaker 1: the moment.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, And you know some of these things, especially

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Speaker 2: for young people might not have the life experience yet

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Speaker 2: to navigate these challenges and get away about budgets and

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Speaker 2: all of these types of things. They're really encouraging people

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Speaker 2: to reach out because if you've if you've been to this,

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Speaker 2: especially with a lot of people who've got a lot

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Speaker 2: more life experience, you know, really connecting with their young

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Speaker 2: people to help them to these challenging times.

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Speaker 1: Can you share any you know, some of those examples

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Speaker 1: of how those conversations have changed people's lives, because I

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Speaker 1: would imagine that they have, so that's a big impact.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, we've just literally just rolled into Darwin on

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Speaker 2: what's called a conversation convoys. So we started out in Path,

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Speaker 2: we've gone right up to Broom and then we've just

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Speaker 2: come through the Kimberleys and we'll encapturing for a little

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Speaker 2: bit as well. And what we've been hearing really consistently

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Speaker 2: is that young people fire struggling, especially now the remote communities,

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Speaker 2: and so older people as well, and it's consistently coming

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Speaker 2: up the cost of living, you know, especially if you're

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Speaker 2: living in these remote areas where just food prices are astronomical,

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Speaker 2: little land to rent. Yeah, so these kind of things

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Speaker 2: are coming out time and time again. But what is

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Speaker 2: incredibly great to be hearing is that people are feeling

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Speaker 2: like if someone asks you are are you okay, They're

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Speaker 2: feeling more inclined to be honest and just get it

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Speaker 2: out whatever they're going through. Especially I mean, you know,

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Speaker 2: sometimes I do it myself. Sometimes I've got something challenging

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Speaker 2: coming up, and I'm trying to work it through by

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Speaker 2: myself in my head. But once you get it out

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Speaker 2: and tell someone, I'll talk to one of my aunties

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Speaker 2: and my mom and they're able to help give a

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Speaker 2: little bit more perspective or a little bit of advice

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Speaker 2: around what if we tried death, what if that? Those

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Speaker 2: type of things.

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Speaker 1: It's so true, Like I say that to my kids.

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Speaker 1: They're quite young now, but I say that to them

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Speaker 1: all the time. You know, you might feel like you've

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Speaker 1: got the weight of the world on your shoulders, but

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Speaker 1: when you share that with somebody else, people give you

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Speaker 1: that perspective.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And that's I'm always trying to read at this

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Speaker 2: message to young people, especially some of the especially older generations.

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Speaker 2: They've felt it might not be the same circumstances, but

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Speaker 2: there's something they've felt the same or similar feelings going

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Speaker 2: up and they're still here. They've got that experience and

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Speaker 2: that wisdom, and we've really got to top into that.

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Speaker 1: Help you spot on. Now, tell me what events are

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Speaker 1: planned for Darwin. You said you're on that conversation convoy.

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Speaker 1: Tell us a bit more about it. What you're going

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Speaker 1: to be doing while you're here.

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Speaker 2: So we're going to be popping up in a lot

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Speaker 2: of places tomorrow. We've got some school visits, so we'll

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Speaker 2: be having some barbecues, handing out metch and having giving

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Speaker 2: out resources that explain well, what is an AOK conversation

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Speaker 2: and how do you do it? Because we know some

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Speaker 2: people it can be challenging. What if someone says name,

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Speaker 2: what do you do on the instances and what do

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Speaker 2: the supports look great when someone is in crisis and

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Speaker 2: how do you get that person the help that they

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Speaker 2: need if if someone does say no. So we really

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Speaker 2: want to have these resources help remove that stigma. So

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Speaker 2: we'll be at schools on Thursday. We're going to be

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Speaker 2: at Mendol Markets. I'm really lucky that I live here

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Speaker 2: in Darwin, but some of these mobs that were with me,

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Speaker 2: they're from down south, so they get to experience Mendom Markets.

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Speaker 2: And then we're going to be at Pride on the

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Speaker 2: weekend at the family Fun Day, and then we've got

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Speaker 2: some community visits without Jaboru, some organizations. We're going to

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Speaker 2: be all over all over town. So if you see us,

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Speaker 2: feel free to wave us down and have a yarn

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Speaker 2: and ask for some resources. And we've got risk bands

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Speaker 2: like kick Cats. We've got a whole bunch of things.

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Speaker 1: How good? Now, where can people sort of find out more?

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Speaker 1: If they're listening this morning and they're like, do you

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Speaker 1: know what, Katie? I want to find out more about this.

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Speaker 1: I want to try and find find the crew wherever

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Speaker 1: they may be.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so good, are you okay? To org dot au

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Speaker 2: and on there you'll find all our free resources but

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Speaker 2: also all our event listings, so everything's free. You know,

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Speaker 2: pop in grab have a chat with us and we'd

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Speaker 2: love to see you.

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Speaker 1: Well, are you okay? Campaign manager Steven Sartor really appreciate

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Speaker 1: your time this morning, mate, Thanks so much for joining

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Speaker 1: us and have a really good week. I reckon you're

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Speaker 1: going to get plenty of people down there to see

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Speaker 1: you guys at all the different locations.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, thank you