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Spotlight Story Program: Meet Lauren Perry

Finding your community, building your network, and boosting yourself up. These are all things that our latest Spotlight Story Program feature writer has not only incorporated into her daily life, but has projected into her activism as she empowers other young people in the disability community. And that focus on connecting with others and becoming […]

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The Catch 22 of Illness and Disability Portrayals in Media: All Representation is Good Representation vs. Accuracy Only, Please

*repost from February 25, 2018* When I get a rare bit of time to relax, I sometimes just want to put my feet up and watch some TV. And when those flashy, at times 100-level volume, commercials come on, my interest is usually only peaked when a new movie trailer popped on the screen . […]

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InvisiYouth Launches Fundraiser Campaign, InvisiYouth Give Back Challenge for December

November 25, 2019 InvisiYouth’s month-long fundraiser campaign, InvisiYouth Give Back Challenge, launches December 1st and has goals beyond just raising needed funds that will support our programs/events helping young adults with chronic illnesses and disabilities. (Donate on our JustGiving Page or GoFundMe Page! 100% goes towards InvisiYouth’s 2020 programs!) This is a fundraiser encouraging everyone to find the ways in […]

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WEGO Health Awards 2019 Nominates both InvisiYouth Chat Sessions video podcast and founder Dominique Viel

July 29, 2019 InvisiYouth Charity has felt the love this summer as it was announced InvisiYouth Charity got two nominations with the 2019 WEGO Health Awards. Our video podcast series, InvisiYouth Chat Sessions, was nominated for Best in Show: Podcast, and our Founder/Executive Director, Dominique Viel, was nominated for Patient Leader Hero. WEGO Health is a company that connects […]

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InvisiEvents Returns in Full Swing to Start off 2019 in Three American Cities

January 15, 2019  This year, the InvisiYouth Charity team decided to bring back one of its most popular (and original) programs…the InvisiEvents! These are not just the events that we support our Global Brand Leaders hosting all over the United States, Canada and now Australia. And they’re not only our FUNdraiser events either—where groups ranging in […]

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Mighty Well and InvisiYouth Charity’s Chronic Illness Meet Up Takes on NYC

November 17, 2017 Last week, InvisiYouth Charity cohosted a fun hangout event in downtown New York City with longtime philanthropic friend Mighty Well, a fashionable medical accessories company, that was open to all young people with chronic illnesses and their friends and loved ones. This meet-up was designed to bring together individuals with all types of […]

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And the Total is in! InvisiYouth's Charity Teams for England's Superhero Disability Triathlon Raised a Total of...

By Dominique Viel September 8, 2017 After months of fundraising, campaigning with family and friends and online through our GoFundMe Page, InvisiYouth’s Charity Teams that participated in England’s first inclusive disability adaptive triathlon have ended their fundraisers. We received donations online and donations in the mail and on our website’s donate page too! We are happy to […]

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10 Year Throwback and Chronic Illness Memories

September 28, 2019 This blog post was originally written for our friends at Diversability! A big THANK YOU to Diversability for featuring me as a guest blogger. I am such a fan of this social enterprise that is truly reshaping the way #disability is discussed and how we can generate positive opportunities for the disabled community! You can read my article below,  […]

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When You’ve Got Health Hindsight: My 10-Year Anniversary with Chronic Illness

December 30, 2018 Well hello again, long time, no blog! It has clearly been a while since my last founder’s blog, but that’s just because InvisiYouth Charity has been keeping me so damn busy. (*and if you’ve been keeping up with InvisiYouth, you’ve gotten to know the reason for that is our new video podcast […]

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Spotlight Story Program: Shona Cobb's Story

Meet Shona Cobb Breaking the stigma-ceiling for chronic illness and disability comes to second nature to British 20 year old, Shona Cobb. She’s used her experience of life with Marfan Syndrome to empower others living with disabilities and illnesses, and change the way businesses, media and society treat disability. Shona uses her successful blog and speaking […]

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