Friday Update!

Ann-Marie
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edited March 2016 in Community news and events

Hi everyone, welcome to the Friday update. Grab a coffee or tea and take a seat as I have lots to share with you.

Community Highlights

Please help me welcome our 39 new members from around the country! Autore, narwoo, Madjeanius, Harry and everyone else who has joined our community.

The Online Network has been super active this week with 81 new posts and 519 comments.  Each week different topics are being discussed and this week has seen a number of posts around how members are feeling.  Whether it be taking a big step and writing your first post or finding that your journey keeps changing directions, we want you all to know that we are here to support each and every one of you. 

I wanted to share these posts with you just in case you may have missed them -

We have a number of user experience updates to share with you -

  • Members details can now only be seen by logged in members of the Online Network
  • Social sharing buttons - have been removed from the homepage and profiles
  • Online Group images – facilitators of groups now have the ability to change the image
  • Join Date – now appears under your photo in your profile
  • Online Network banner – has been removed so you can access posts faster without having to scroll through pages.

BCNA news and events

  • BCNA's Orange Forum will be taking place on Wednesday 23rd For more information on what it’s all about and where it will be held click here.
  • We would love to welcome Jill Rowbotham who has been appointed as BCNA State Development Manager in NSW to our wonderful team. To read more about Jill click here.
  • Chinese Language Resources Launch - The launch of our Chinese resources occurred in Sydney last Thursday.  The launch was held at the YWCA NSW in conjunction with CanRevive (a Chinese cancer support organisation).  Two of our Chinese Community Liaisons co-chaired the launch and Anna Bligh who is the CEO of the Y participated, it was a great success. To order these resources click here.
  • BCNA has developed a new fact sheet to help women and men living with secondary breast cancer understand their entitlements around accessing their lump sum superannuation pay outs and associated insurance benefits. There are many complexities around accessing these pay outs and we are concerned that it is such a complex process for people at a very stressful time in their lives. For more information you can read the media release or download our fact sheet from the website.

Do you have any events/festivals happening in your state this weekend? Melbourne will host the Grand Prix, lucky for me I will be in Tassie so I won’t hear it :)

Have a great weekend!

~Ann-Marie x

 

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