{"id":676,"date":"2018-06-08T15:27:18","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T15:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentvoices.bli.lsa.umich.edu\/?p=676"},"modified":"2020-07-23T13:36:13","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T13:36:13","slug":"lupus-michigan-student-awareness-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/studentvoices\/2018\/06\/08\/lupus-michigan-student-awareness-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Lupus: Michigan Student Awareness Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a new organization, our main goal for the Lupus Detroit @ Michigan Student Awareness
\nProject was to raise awareness about Lupus. Largely due to the demographics of the Ann Arbor\u00a0campus, many students are unaware of the struggles undergone by Lupus patients and many\u00a0do not even know what Lupus is. Therefore, we sought to teach as many students and faculty\u00a0members as possible about Lupus while engaging them in a fun event.<\/p>\n

Initially, we sought out to put on a comedy show where participants would pay to
\nattend the event and in return receive a great deal of information about the organization, thedisease, and how they could get involved. While our main aim for this event was raising
\nawareness, we also hoped to recruit more members for our new organization. Although our\u00a0intentions for the event were great, we later realized that we had underestimated the amount of time and work that it would take to put on an event of this caliber. Our first struggle was finding an affordable space that could accommodate the amount of people that we had in\u00a0mind. After finding a space that was available, we next attempted to solidify comedians who\u00a0would be willing to volunteer their services. However, this proved to be a greater challenge\u00a0than we had anticipated. Although we each knew of people who would be willing to help, most\u00a0comedians wanted compensation for their services and transportation and those who did not,\u00a0could not be available on such short notices. After being unable to solidify a comedian, we\u00a0decided that to go back to the drawing board and change the idea for our event.<\/p>\n

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The Lupus Detroit Butterfly that was painted by all attendees<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the end, we decided that if we wanted to reach out to as many people as possible the
\nevent would need to be free seeing as our organization\u2019s name is not well-known on campus. In this aspect we had to start small. We realized that as a new organization we had to be realistic about the amount of people who would support our event and be grateful for the few that did. Our awareness event became a painting event and was held February 24 2018. This event was inspired by the stress of finals time and the importance of self care on Lupus patients. As a team we agreed that one\u00a0of the most important aspects of recovery for Lupus patients is self care. This not only means\u00a0taking medications and adhering to doctors\u2019 recommendations, but doing things that you love\u00a0and enjoy. Thus, we decided to hold an event that would help to relieve some stress. At the\u00a0event, we first discussed lupus and what our goals as an organization were. Afterwards, we had\u00a0a short mingling time where potential members could meet one another and discuss why they\u00a0were interested in becoming a part of the organization. Lastly, we al participation in the\u00a0painting of a purple butterfly with the purple color being symbolic of Lupus (purple is the color\u00a0of the Lupus ribbon) and the butterfly being symbolic and peace, happiness, and freedom.<\/p>\n

The event was successful, in that, we recruited a lot of new members and raised\u00a0awareness about Lupus. Although the event did not turn out as planned and we did not have as\u00a0many attendees as we\u2019d hoped, we considered it a successful event as long as a few people\u00a0were willing to join the fight for Lupus warriors with us!\u00a0Next semester, we plan to increase the awareness of Lupus even more and with the\u00a0money with earned from a previous bake sale event, we plan to create baskets for inpatient\u00a0Lupus warriors and deliver them in hopes that they will brighten their day a little bit. Our next\u00a0event will be a large wellness event that will feature massages, painting, yoga, and more. We have already begun planning this event so that we will not encounter the same obstacles as
\nwith our first one!<\/p>\n

By Sydni Williams<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a new organization, our main goal for the Lupus Detroit @ Michigan Student Awareness Project was to raise awareness about Lupus. Largely due to the demographics of the Ann Arbor\u00a0campus, many students are unaware of the struggles undergone by Lupus patients and many\u00a0do not even know what Lupus is. Therefore, we sought to teach […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":391,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-small-grants"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/studentvoices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/studentvoices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/studentvoices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/studentvoices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/studentvoices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/studentvoices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1968,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/studentvoices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions\/1968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/studentvoices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/studentvoices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/studentvoices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}