The Disability & Chronic Illness Support Group is a confidential, students-only support group put on by the Disability Advocacy and Support Alliance (DASA) to build community focused around disability and chronic illness at UCSF. We welcome people who have personal experiences with a disability, chronic illness, developmental disability, mental illness, or learning differences, as well as caretakers and others who want to offer support. Neither identifying as being disabled nor sharing an experience with disability is required. To request an accommodation, please feel free to contact us. We will be sharing the link prior to the event to those that are members of DASA on the CampusGroups portal. Our group norms are to maintain confidentiality, speak from the I perspective, and step up/ step back. We will start the meeting by laying out our agenda below, and we will plan to meet for around 90 minutes. Agenda: 1. Discuss group norms 2. Introductions and our roses/thorns for the week, as well as bring up topics folks are interested in discussing tonight 3. Discussion around challenges we are experiencing in classroom learning, clerkships, etc. and discussion of coping strategies 4. Discussion of other topics introduced during intros 5. Check out and plug upcoming events and resources
