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We are thrilled to announce that our founder and executive director, Dominique Viel, has been nominated for an award with RARE Champions of Hope, as an Individual Champion in Advocacy.
To give you background on the awards, Global Genes states:
“The RARE Champions of Hope Awards celebrate, honor and recognize those in the rare disease community who are raising the bar through their innovative approaches to research, programming and advocacy to create meaningful impact in the rare disease space. Awardees are beacons of hope in the rare disease community who lean in, take risks and lead collaborative efforts to positively impact the lives of rare disease patients, caregivers and families across the globe.”
These awards are with the nonprofit, Global Genes, and they do amazingly stellar work as they are committed to providing information, resources and connections to all communities affected by rare diseases. This is something that InvisiYouth is passionate about, so for founder Dominique to be recognized by the community means so much.
She was nominated for the RARE Champion in Advocacy (Individual) which is an award that recognizes an individual that’s a rare disease patient or advocacy (which Dominique is both!) who has created innovative programming that supports, educates and empowers their communities in impactful ways.
Please root on Dominique to see if she wins the award, and support all the other nonprofit organizations, advocates and individuals that are being nominated and celebrated for the incredible work they are doing all year long for this incredible rare disease community.
HAPPY 9th BIRTHDAY INVISIYOUTH CHARITY!
9 years of empowerment and badass personal growth! 9 years of digital resources to improve all aspects of life! 9 years of honing in on enhancing the non-medical aspects of life! 9 years of fundraising in mini and fun ways! 9 years of being invincible and never invincible
In honor of hitting our 9th Birthday (and all the gratitude we feel for each donor, supporter, and community member), we have a major surprise we’re gonna give you a little tease! We are planning on adding a new item to the InvisiYouth Charity Shop before the end of the year, so stayed tuned as we drop details for the fall!
Can you guess what might be coming into InvisiYouth Charity Shop and joining our Subtle Activist Color Block bracelets? Keep up with our Instagram for the official announcement later this year! Or you can look at our Instagram page to see the reel highlighting some of our best moments in the past nine years!
Thank you for nine years, thank you to our founder and executive director Dominique Viel, for creating this amazing nonprofit, and here’s to many more years in our future!
If you want to support our nonprofit, you can donate, shop on our InvisiYouth Charity Shop exclusively on Etsy, or Click our Shops that Give Back page to see how a free email sign up can donate to InvisiYouth!
We are heartbroken at the loss of one of InvisiYouth Charity’s longest supporters, and one of founder Dominique’s dearest friends, Travis Flores. He was one of the kindest, most compassionate, intelligent and brightest lights in the philanthropy community, and lived his life with cystic fibrosis with such passion and zest for life. He created a unique lane for himself being an award-winning children’s book author, executive producer and activist and reached so many accolades in his life.
Travis was featured on Season 4 of The CW’s My Last Days, created by Jane the Virgin star and Five Feet Apart director, Justin Baldoni, and opened up about his coming out story to his amazing husband. He used his large social media platform, the #YellowHeartSquad as his fanbase, to also document his journey to have three double lung transplants, and how he always was so resilient to continue to be a truly brave warrior.
With InvisiYouth, Travis was our first returning special guest on our popular video podcast chat show, InvisiYouth Chat Sessions. He was a stellar guest on Season 1 Episode 7, and returned again for Season 2 Episode 25. Please feel free to watch or listen to these episodes to celebrate Travis’ life and get to learn even more about his beautiful personality, humor and talented work.
On a personal note, Travis was a longtime friend of founder Dominique. They shared so many laughs, deep conversations, and a passion to use their experiences to give back to others, while sharing that support with each other.
Founder Dominique stated, “This is one of the most challenging and heartbreaking moments. Thank you for being my friend for all these years, Travis. I will forever be thankful our paths crossed, and we’ve been able to support each other, work together, and laugh together. I’ll miss you always and continue supporting you and keeping you in my heart and memories. Please know that I will always be here to support and send love to your husband, and your family. You’re an amazing and talented person, a beautiful and witty soul, and a remarkable friend. I will forever miss you, and love you lots, my friend.”
We know Dominique and all of the InvisiYouth team will forever miss Travis, and continue to support his loved ones. We will be keeping Travis’ legacy and passions in our hearts, and be also top of our minds as we continue our work and mission so his legacy lives on. We love you, Travis, and will always be here, thinking of you.
Last week was Giving Tuesday and InvisiYouth Charity was able to announce the simple way people can help keep InvisiYouth and its free resources going in 2024!
One of our private board members will be matching every single donation to InvisiYouth, AND making a donation to match every purchase of our Subtle Activist Color-Block bracelets, and we’re super grateful!
Now…WHY DO WE NEED YOU TO DONATE OR BUY A BRACELET?
InvisiYouth provides our monthly resources and programming all year long for FREE for deserving teens and young adults living with chronic illnesses and disabilities. It’s our mission to empower them in all the non-medical aspects of their lives so they can adapt to thrive with any health struggles, so they need that mental wellbeing and life-approach strategies so they can find success and joy for themselves in daily living!
But we need YOUR HELP to continue doing this! And it just got TWICE as easy to make an impact!
If you donate to InvisiYouth (or buy one of our bracelets at the InvisiYouth Charity Shop) you’re supporting a great cause and every donation AND every bracelet sale is matched with a donation directly to InvisiYouth Charity! And 100% of every cent donated will directly go positively impacting the lives of young adults living with chronic illness and disability!
Please DONATE at invisiyouthcharity.com/donate our buy a bracelet on our Etsy page at https://www.etsy.com/shop/invisiyouthcharity by News Years Eve!
Special shout out to those that help out in big and small ways to give back and make a difference in our mission with our InvisiYouth Freestyle Volunteers and it’s two divisions : “Medically Adult-ish™” Division and Healthcare Students & Professionals Division
We truly are humbled by all the love and support that each and every one of you give to us throughout the year. By your support, donations, shares of our platform, and involvement in all our advocacy, resources and campaigns, we are able to reach thousands of young adults around the world, and provide an outlet of empowerment to thrive with health struggles and NEVER wait for a cure/recovery in order to live life fully.
If you want to fundraise, volunteer, donate, or join our #InvisiYouthGalaxy community in any way, contact us! Again, we have so much gratitude for this and thank you!
Announcing InvisiYouth’s fundraising activism challenge in honor of InvisiYouth raising awareness on its community, InvisiYouth Galaxy!
September 18th-30th YOU can raise awareness and funds with #ShowMyStarChallenge!
We wanna challenge our community, their support networks and the general public to get creative and fundraise in an affordable way so we can showcase the uniqueness and power in numbers the young adult chronic illness and disability community has when they are empowered to show their power.
Here are the Four Easy Steps:
1️⃣Take a photo/video of a star you’ve found or drawn
2️⃣Share on social (IG Story, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter) with #ShowMyStarChallenge and tag @invisiyouth
3️⃣Donate $1/£1 on our website (www.invisiyouthcharity.com ) or sign up for our free newsletter, #GalaxyHub (www.linktr.ee/invisiyouth ) if you can’t donate
4️⃣Challenge 3 friends to take the #ShowMyStarChallenge next!
We wanna share how unique, empowered and special this awesome community is, while also raising awareness and funds for InvisiYouth’s free resources and programs for the chronic illness/disability community.
The Galaxy is the brain-child of founder Dominique! She believes like every star has its own unique fingerprint in one galaxy, InvisiYouth knows each young person has a unique experience with their own chronic illness/disability, while being part of one giant community. Hence…InvisiYouth celebrates that uniqueness within our community #InvisiYouthGalaxy!)
You are EACH as unique as a star, even when you have similar diagnoses, your experience and life with your illness/disability is unique to you. But, you are part of this wide, diverse, badass rebel-game-changer community of young people with chronic illness and disability. A unique star in a powerfully supportive galaxy, InvisiYouth Galaxy!
That’s why we need YOU to each take part and challenge others to do the #ShowMyStarChallenge! Raise awareness and funds in a fun, affordable way by taking the challenge and having your support network do it too!
Join in TODAY!
*updated on October 23rd, 2023
In the news alert! Founder Dominique is the most recent guest blogger for our new nonprofit partner Ryan’s Case for Smiles.
She got to drop articles focused on the transition period between pediatric and adult healthcare, and giving advice for all of our wonderful caregivers and the young adults.
She chats about a range of topics including redefining independence, how to begin the evolution towards adult healthcare as young people age, ways to move through communication bloggers between young adults and their caregivers/parental figures, and so much more.
The guest blog were featured on Ryan’s Case for Smiles digital resource called Coping Space. This is the online resource nad support site that offers coping strategies and tips related to a child’s life-changing illness or disability or injury to assist both children and their families in dealing with the stresses of the experience of the trauma of youth illness or injury.
Her second blog post with RCFS was released on October 21st, titled, “How to Help Teens Transition to Adult Healthcare” and gives all the levels of tips, advice and communication techniques to help your teens harness their independence while allowing families and caregivers to stay involved.
Make sure you check out this blog today! Give it a read and share, write a comment and support InvisiYouth and Coping Space! Thank you to Ryan’s Case for Smiles and the Coping Space team for having Dominique!
New InvisiYouth 2.0, New Website, New Home!
InvisiYouth’s website got a redesign and a major upgrade! That’s right…welcome to our new digital home. And if you are reading this article, that means you have found our new website, so welcome to our new digital home!
All 2022, you’ve seen InvisiYouth redesign programs, add new resources to our roster, and now it’s time for our nonprofit to have a new home to put all our resources and activism in one place that’s easy to use, fun to go to, and just plain attractive.
A massive thank you to our website team at IQNection for taking our dreams of the new visual direction of InvisiYouth and turning it into life! They have been a massive supporter of InvisiYouth Charity for over six years, and we’re proud they were the support to help take our vision for InvisiYouth 2.0 and turn it into this incredible website. They are the best!
Our mission and heart are still the same, we just got a way more sleek and vibrant way of bringing our resources and activism to all the deserving young people living with chronic illness and disability in the world.
Jumping right back into the swing of virtual programming with an all new season of our popular series, #InvisiYouthChatSessions: A Video Podcast Chat Show!
Settling in for Season 5, there are going to be some major upgrades to our virtual program, but we’ll be keeping lots of the same so that classic feel will still remain. It’s our fusion of entertainment and education with this monthly video podcast series!
Why Subscribe to Season 5:
And for Audio Flash Files, the other show on our podcast, we’re giving you a theme this year! Each AFF is packed with personal growth you can take into so many different relationships and dynamics in your life as you live with chronic illness/disability!
InvisiYouth is acting like the communication mediator in this set of Audio Flash Files! Let’s be real: when you’re a young person living with a chronic illness or disability, it can be challenging to communicate with people in our lives and feel that we’re being heard and understood. So each Audio Flash File will focus on a new dynamic, and break it down for you how our mediator skills can be interpreted to fit your life and needs so you can thrive
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