Join the community!
From collaboration and support to ideas,project and challenge sharing, come
and help to form a growing network of healthcare worker period parity champions
The healthcare period parity network
Aims of the network
To form a community of practice of healthcare workers with enthusiasm, dedication and interest or involvement striving towards period parity for colleagues - be it locally, nationally or internationally.
To create a diverse, collaborative and supportive network for discussion, sharing of projects, ideas and challenges, allowing our work to be elevated and for us to be more empowered through the community of peers
To learn from each other and benefit more widely from the different contexts, cultural frameworks and experiences we have worldwide
To create a community without boundaries or borders from any and all healthcare roles, from any and all locations from around the world
To create a psychologically safe environment, allowing for an improvement based approach
What would joining the network involve?
The network would involve joining a community - how members interact can change and flex to suit their needs as long as basic principles such as respecting differences, collaboration and civility are abided to.
Depending on those joining the network, collective communication and interaction may begin through group discussion forum, virtual or in-person meetings to suit different locations and schedules, newsletter-style emails and, with time, a networking platform. Alongside this combination of synchronous and asynchronous opportunities such as a community discussion platform connection building through one to one or small group interactions may be possible. Additionally, as our community grows, the way in which it operates and in particular communicates may evolve.
What you opt to be a part of within the network is your decision. Furthermore, suggestions and specified needs outlined by community members will be taken into account with the aim to be supported whenever feasibly or reasonably possible.
Members should abide to principles relating to General Data Protection Regulations or equivalent, alongside Chatham House rules during meetings and virtual conversations. Permission should be sought and granted when sharing any matters members outline that might constitute intellectual property.
More formalised terms of reference and other governance documents may be drafted in later times as the size and needs of the network may require.
The SOS box outreach project
The SOS box outreach launch kit commenced during summer 2021.
The aim of the kit was to provide structure and guidance based on the experiences gathered, research and pilots undertaken thus far through the SOS box initiative to those who wished to establish a effective SOS box/freely accessible period product source within their own healthcare settings. Furthermore, the launch kit was designed to provide tools and evidence based materials (briefs, how to measure impact and feasibility) to help the local champions to lobby for local and regional organisational adoption of SOS-box like initiatives.
This was alongside the contemporaneous step-by-step guides to establishing an SOS box initiative, approach to measuring need and impact and lobbying posted on the then Twitter at the time.
Boxes have been sent out to locations within the UK and Malta thus far.
If you would be interested in the launch kit and any of the materials - posters, briefs and lobbying letters, box toolkit and more or if you would like further help in setting up your own similar initiative in your locality/country, please get in touch.
