My Rural Story | Week One | Jacinta Elston

settings when there’s a lot of turnover of staff. People who work in these areas are committed to the cause and they’re there for the long term often, so relationships and connections topeople, that’s amazing. In rural communities there’s a lot of connection and connectedness, if you feel you’re outside of that and you don’t understand things look for help; look for a mentor, look to the leaders and ask for advice. And then on top of that you’ve got opportunities to sit, some times in really beautiful places, quietly. At the side of one of the mountains out in the lake Argyle region of Kununurra where

outside of that and you don’t understand things, look for help; look for a mentor, look to the leaders and ask for advice. What has been one of your best experiences working in these remote communities? I think it’s hard to pinpoint my best experience when working in a rural and remote community because there’s been lost of best experiences and lots of really unique opportunities that I’ve had. But if there was one great thing that’s come out of the couple of decades that I’ve been working in this space, it’s the relationships and the connections to people. It’s knowing that all around the country I’ve got relationships, friendships, associations that are real and meaningful. They’re relationships that have lasted the test of time. And I guess that’s more than yougetwhenyou’reworking in largeurban

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