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The Long Covid Collective Can you give a brief introduction about LCC? LCC was founded in 2024 after a group of long haulers found each other through a local Facebook group. All of us were craving connection and support amid a medical and social system that had nothing to offer us. So, we turned to those who understood us best: each other. Some of us realized that we were the community’s best hope for support, so we created a group dedicated to just that. What initially began as a smallscale virtual community support and service program has evolved into a global chronic illness network that hosts virtual programs and groups and provides educational tools and resources, chronic illness-friendly engagement and creative opportunities, and representation as we re-build our lives in mind, body, and soul. What’s the mission of the LCC? Our core mission is to serve the long covid and chronic illness community in body, mind, and spirit. After developing our chronic illness, our everyday lives were taken away from us – our communities, our routines, our careers and our passions. At LCC we want to help people get their lives back - in a new way that suits their current ability. Through offering a variety of holistic connection, movement, creative, and collaborative programs and opportunities, we hope to help those living with chronic illness rebuild their lives and foster new meaning alongside a community that understands and supports them. How did you come together to develop LCC? Or What was missing in your community that sparked you to start the LCC? Everything was missing. There were few to no support groups, no counseling, none of the support systems provided for other severe illnesses.
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