{"id":8902,"date":"2023-06-23T12:13:29","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T16:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fibrocanada.ca\/?page_id=8902"},"modified":"2025-08-04T20:17:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T02:17:47","slug":"awareness-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fibrocanada.ca\/en\/awareness-committee","title":{"rendered":"Awareness Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:18px\"><strong>To connect with this committee, <a href=\"mailto:awareness@fibrocanada.ca\">email us<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:18px\">You are interested in volunteering with FAC's Awareness Committee?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-pta-volunteer-sus-block-block-pta-volunteer-sus-block\"><div class=\"pta-sus-sheet\"><h3 class=\"pta-sus filled-header\">All spots have been filled.<\/h3><div class=\"pta-sus-sheets tasks\"><div class=\"pta-sus task-info-header\">\n        <div class=\"pta-sus title-header\">Awareness Committee - every third Thursday of the month<\/div>\n\t            <div class=\"pta-sus time-header start\">Start Time: 4:00 pm<\/div>\n    \t        <div class=\"pta-sus time-header end\">End Time: 5:30 pm<\/div>\n\t\t    <\/div>\n<table class=\"pta-sus pta-sus-tasks \"><thead class=\"pta-sus-table-head\"><tr class=\"pta-sus-tasks-row pta-sus-header-row\">\n            <th class=\"column-available-spots head\">\n            Available Spots        <\/th>\n    <\/tr><\/thead><tbody>    <tr class=\"pta-sus-table-row pta-sus-tasks-row filled\">\n                    <td class=\"pta-sus column-available-spots\" data-label=\"Available Spots\">\n                #1: Filled            <\/td>\n            <\/tr>\n    <tr class=\"pta-sus-table-row pta-sus-tasks-row filled\">\n                    <td class=\"pta-sus column-available-spots\" data-label=\"Available Spots\">\n                #2: Filled            <\/td>\n            <\/tr>\n    <tr class=\"pta-sus-table-row pta-sus-tasks-row filled\">\n                    <td class=\"pta-sus column-available-spots\" data-label=\"Available Spots\">\n                #3: Filled            <\/td>\n            <\/tr>\n    <tr class=\"pta-sus-table-row pta-sus-tasks-row filled\">\n                    <td class=\"pta-sus column-available-spots\" data-label=\"Available Spots\">\n                #4: Filled            <\/td>\n            <\/tr>\n    <tr class=\"pta-sus-table-row pta-sus-tasks-row filled\">\n                    <td class=\"pta-sus column-available-spots\" data-label=\"Available Spots\">\n                #5: Filled            <\/td>\n            <\/tr>\n    <tr class=\"pta-sus-table-row pta-sus-tasks-row filled\">\n                    <td class=\"pta-sus column-available-spots\" data-label=\"Available Spots\">\n                #6: Filled            <\/td>\n            <\/tr>\n    <tr class=\"pta-sus-table-row pta-sus-tasks-row filled\">\n                    <td class=\"pta-sus column-available-spots\" data-label=\"Available Spots\">\n                #7: Filled            <\/td>\n            <\/tr>\n    <tr class=\"pta-sus-table-row pta-sus-tasks-row filled\">\n                    <td class=\"pta-sus column-available-spots\" data-label=\"Available Spots\">\n                #8: Filled            <\/td>\n            <\/tr>\n    <tr class=\"pta-sus-table-row pta-sus-tasks-row filled\">\n                    <td class=\"pta-sus column-available-spots\" data-label=\"Available Spots\">\n                #9: Filled            <\/td>\n            <\/tr>\n    <tr class=\"pta-sus-table-row pta-sus-tasks-row filled\">\n                    <td class=\"pta-sus column-available-spots\" data-label=\"Available Spots\">\n                #10: Filled            <\/td>\n            <\/tr>\n    <tr class=\"pta-sus-table-row pta-sus-tasks-row filled\">\n                    <td class=\"pta-sus column-available-spots\" data-label=\"Available Spots\">\n                #11: Filled            <\/td>\n            <\/tr>\n    <tr class=\"pta-sus-table-row pta-sus-tasks-row filled\">\n                    <td class=\"pta-sus column-available-spots\" data-label=\"Available Spots\">\n                #12: Filled            <\/td>\n            <\/tr>\n<\/tbody><\/table><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color\" style=\"color:#6a0dad\">Purpose:<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<ul style=\"font-size:18px\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>To raise awareness that fibromyalgia is a life-altering chronic illness<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To address and reduce stigmas and stereotypes and to influence changes in attitudes, behaviours, and beliefts toward fibromyalgia<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To raise awareness of fibromyalgia through national campaigns<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To develop social media campaigns in collaboration with the other committees; and<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To invite opportunities to work with national and fibromyalgia-related communities, marginalized and vulnerable communities such as veterans, Indigenous, youth and young adults, and work together to increase awareness of fibromyalgia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color\" style=\"color:#6a0dad\">Membership:<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:18px\"><strong>FAC's Awareness Committee is comprised of members who:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul style=\"font-size:18px\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Bring a variety of lived experiences, skills, abilities, and networks to help advance the work of FAC<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bring diversity of the Awareness Committee with respect to age, location, sexual orientation, gender identity, ethnicity, and culture as the Committee strives to be broadly reflective of the fibromyalgia community<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color\" style=\"color:#6a0dad\">Meetings: <\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:18px\">The FAC Awareness Committee will meet virtually via Zoom for 1\u00bd hours at 2:30pm EST the <strong><em>third Tuesday of every month<\/em><\/strong>. Closed captioning is also be available<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<ul style=\"font-size:18px\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list wp-block-latest-posts is-layout-flow wp-block-latest-posts-is-layout-flow\"><li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fibrocanada.ca\/en\/volunteer-onboarding\">Volunteer Onboarding<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fibromyalgia Association Canada (FAC) Awareness Committee is dedicated to increasing public understanding of fibromyalgia through raising awareness of the condition to support early diagnosis and treatment.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20722,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awareness","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fibrocanada.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fibrocanada.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fibrocanada.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fibrocanada.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fibrocanada.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fibrocanada.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fibrocanada.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fibrocanada.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fibrocanada.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fibrocanada.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}