Get Involved
Join our Youth Lived Experience Advisory Board
The Youth Lived Experience Advisory Board (YLEAB) is an exciting initiative that aims to provide a leadership role for youth and young adults with lived experience of rheumatic diseases. It will play a pivotal role in guiding our mission, vision, and strategic decisions. Members of the board will have the opportunity to share their unique lived experiences, providing valuable insights that will shape our organizational direction. They will also contribute to advocacy efforts, engaging in awareness campaigns, and collaborating on resource creation.
Youth & Young Adult
Ambassador Program
(Age 16-25)
The ambassador role varies from the promotion of the podcast to outreach tasks. Being an ambassador will include opportunities to be involved and share information about healthcare, connections, support, rheumatic diseases and disability equity. Ambassadors will be able to gain experience in building leadership skills, networking abilities, and marketing expertise as well as meet others with similar lived experiences.
Joint Chat Rheum Program
Do you want to hangout with other teens and young adults your age with similar lived experiences? Maybe even make some friends? The Joint Chat Rheum is a program launched by Take a Pain Check aimed towards building a community at a personal level. Led by ambassadors and executives (teens and young adults with rheumatic diseases), sessions will take place on a monthly basis. Each session will be one hour long and will involve team building exercises, deliberating relevant topics, asking questions, having important discussions, participating in game & activity nights and much more.
Write a Blog
Are you interested in getting your piece featured on our blog platform? Take a Pain Check believes in showcasing work around the topics that are heavily discussed in our podcast from lifestyle, research, initiatives and much more!
Take a Pain Check is a platform for you to share your story. If you want to be featured by sharing your story through any form of media (writing, music, photography, and more), fill out this form to propose your idea for our blog!
Health Care Professional Ambassador (HCPA) Program
We see the impact health care professionals continue making in the arthritis and rheumatic disease community. Through content creation, we have realized that it is vital to involve health care professionals and knowledgeable members in the medical field as a part of our team. If you are interested in being a TAPC representative, fill out the google form to get started today!
Adult
Ambassador Program
(Age 26-50)
The ambassador role varies from the promotion of the podcast to outreach tasks. Being an ambassador will include opportunities to be involved and share information about healthcare, connections, support, rheumatic diseases and disability equity. Ambassadors will be able to gain experience in building leadership skills, networking abilities, and marketing expertise as well as meet others with similar lived experiences.
Submit a Tiktok
Take a Pain Check loves to showcase talents and disseminate information in unique ways. We want Take a Pain Check to be a platform where you can express yourselves. We encourage all of you to complete this google form and upload your TikToks/Reels so we can post it on our side for you. We are very excited to see your creativity!
Guest on the Podcast
Do you want to share your story on our podcast? If you have a connection to a rheumatic disease, fill out this application form with all the necessary information in order for us to get to know you and to see if you are the best fit for the podcast. The Take a Pain Check team will be in contact with you when there is guest availability! Otherwise, hold on tight and stream the rest of the episodes to get an idea of what you are getting yourself into.