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The Loop is your online hub for connection, learning, and lung health empowerment. Join us in shaping the future of lung health.
At the Lung Health Foundation, we believe in the power of community. With 1 in 5 Canadians impacted by lung disease, we know we can’t do it alone.
To create real and long-lasting impact, the Lung Health Foundation needs to be firmly rooted in the community we serve.
We invite you to share your voices, knowledge, and lived experiences with us and one another. Together, we can grow and energize a movement within the lung health community to drive action, create change, and help Canadians breathe easier.
Our engagement framework ensures that your voice is at the heart of everything we do.
Explore this interactive framework below by clicking any of the sections within the wheel to read more.
Inspire
Support and energize a movement within the lung health community to drive action, maintain change, and enhance well-being.
Build Capacity
Create resources and tools to help people enhance their skills, enabling them to thrive while supporting LHF in advancing shared goals
Inform
Provide people touched by lung disease balanced and objective information about their health and offer opportunities for engagement and advocacy in the lung health space
Consult
Seek feedback from people touched by lung disease
Be receptive to the thoughts, feelings, concerns and aspirations of those we engage with
Practice transparency about how their input will influence decision making
Involve
Work directly with people touched by lung conditions as part of our planning and development process
Strive to understand and consider concerns and aspirations of those we engage with
Collaborate
Partner with people touched by lung disease while designing initiatives and strategies
Incorporate their recommendations to the maximum extent possible
Empower
Support people touched by lung disease to make decisions
Place the final decisions in their hands
Support
We will strive to create a welcoming environment for everyone that we serve. Our goal is to provide the latest information and resources to better support you. We aim to build a community where people like yourself can connect, collaborate, and learn together.
Equity
We commit to creating an inviting a space where diverse voices and experiences can be shared to better understand and learn how we can tackle societal and individual barriers, offer help, and create opportunities so that everyone, especially those facing disadvantages, can meaningfully contribute to the lung health community.
Transparency
We will be open and honest about our goals and expectations, and what engaging with us means. We will provide you with all the information you need, including what we are not able to provide or do, to make sure your decision is well-informed.
Meaning
We commit to creating opportunities that are purposeful and meaningful to you. By aiming to make this a shared partnership where your insights and time are worthwhile, we commit to helping you grow and develop into whomever you strive to become.
Safety
We commit to creating a space and platform where you feel comfortable, can express yourself, and can be vulnerable. A place where you feel secure and not at risk, and where we recognize that your experience is your own and that is worth sharing.
Flexibility
We commit to being open-minded towards new ways of thinking and doing. We will aim to include the insights from people with lived experience and be challenged to change to meet the needs or issues that become visible.