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Raising awareness, promoting inclusion, striving for equity for disabled, chronically ill, neurodiverse genetic counsellors. https://teapawt.net/t.co/pK5QycfTaA

Joined March 2021
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Dare To Be Aware is taking a break from all activities due to severe illness in our Founder’s family. We will be back as soon as possible.
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Dare To Be Aware aims to raise awareness, promote inclusion, and strive for equity for disabled, chronically ill and/or neurodiverse genetic counsellors, current students and future students. Website: tinyurl.com/25wue8ct.
#GCChat - please share in your networks to ensure a wide range of people shape our webinars to be the best they can be. Thank you!
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Dare To Be Aware has an open survey to help us craft useful and accessible webinars. We would love to hear more from: - Applicants @SCaGCPSN - Students @NSGC_SNG_SIG - GCs from countries other than Australia. Survey link: forms.gle/tUt8ajs3ruu8kshJ6.
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Dare To Be Aware aims to raise awareness, promote inclusion, and strive for equity for disabled, chronically ill and/or neurodiverse genetic counsellors, current students and future students. Website: tinyurl.com/25wue8ct
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Please answer this 18 question survey so we can make our webinars as accessible and useful as possible. Survey link: forms.gle/tUt8ajs3ruu8kshJ6. Please share in your networks to ensure a wide range of people shape our webinars to be the best they can be. Thank you!
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Dare To Be Aware is interested in convening webinars. We’d love to hear from #GCChat! We’d like to know: - Would you attend a webinar? - What would you like to learn about? - What accessibility features are absolute must haves? - Should contributors be compensated and how?
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Are there any #ActuallyAutistic people in #GCChat who would like to participate in this important research? An #ActuallyAutistic person was involved in study design.
We need more autistic perspectives guiding healthcare practices! We are looking for #autistic people to participate in our survey collecting autistic opinions on genetic testing for ASD. #ActuallyAutistic #AllAutistics #AskAnAutistic #AskingAutistics rc.bcchr.ca/redcap/surveys/?…
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See the full blog post "Ableism: how can we be less ableist?" for more tips: tinyurl.com/paaa7whf You can make a positive difference in #GCChat today. Check it out and share in your networks. #DareToBeAware #DisabilityIsDiversity #Disability #ChronicIllness #Neurodiversity
Advertise accommodations in postgraduate programs and workplaces and enable people to access them. An introduction to accommodations can be found here: tinyurl.com/t6z268ek The Job Accommodation Network hosts a database to identify accommodations: askjan.org/
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Accommodations are super important to increase equity for disabled, chronically ill and neurodiverse students and colleagues. Accommodations = better GCs = patients get a better service = winning!
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"Genetic counseling and MS are a part of my identity, and I'm proud of that." Lauren Sferrazza shares her experiences as a genetic counselor living with multiple sclerosis and the resources available to GCs with disabilities. #GCChat #NDEAM
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"There are graduate programs that won't accommodate students with chronic illnesses." As a GC with a genetic disability, Sarah Hunt of @CUCancerCenter provides a unique and valuable perspective on accommodations for students and employees. #GCChat #NDEAM
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If you have feedback or would like to pitch a blog post please email [email protected]. We are looking forward to your email! ✉️ #DareToBeAware #DisabilityIsDiversity #Disability #ChronicIllness #Neurodiversity
We welcome blog submissions from people with more than one minoritised identitity. However, we recognise that this is emotional labour that you may not want engage in, and are not obligated to engage in.
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We have amended our website to (hopefully) be more clear that Dare To Be Aware loves diversity, equity and inclusion in the disability space AND as it applies to all other parts of people’s identities. All parts of you are welcome here.
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We were super excited to receive some feedback! It was constructive feedback. And we REALLY appreciate it. 😍
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A quote: “Fostering equity allows disabled, chronically ill, and neurodiverse genetic counsellors to be included. It increases the diversity of our workforce, which improves patient and workplace experiences.” We can't see a downside to #equity #inclusion #diversity in #GCChat.
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Our Founder, @janette_hayward, has written an article for NSGC Perspectives: "Where Are All The Disabled Genetic Counsellors?" Check it out and share in your networks: tinyurl.com/3y8htevb #DareToBeAware #DisabilityIsDiversity #Disability #ChronicIllness #Neurodiversity
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