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NOTiCENURSiNGNOw Celebrate UICC World Cancer Day by Advocating for Today’s Children and Tomorrow’s World [By Karen Hochberg, MS, ONS Director of Marketing and Public Relations] ractice is the best way to improve your communication skills. Another method is to learn and model from other advocacy group efforts. A great P way to begin is to celebrate World Cancer Day on February 4 with the International Union Against Cancer (UICC). Check out the online tools available to help promote World Cancer Day at www.worldcan cercampaign.org, which are great examples of how to engage and educate individuals to take action. The site offers fact sheets, tips, and even downloadable posters to help promote World Cancer Day. UICC has developed key partnerships for its multiyear initiative to raise awareness worldwide about the dangers of secondhand smoke. Notice how UICC has identified its target audience as parents and has devel- oped key messages geared toward that audience, such as • There is no safe level of exposure to secondhand smoke. • Because you care, protect your children from secondhand smoke. • Avoid smoking or allowing others to smoke in your home or car, even when your children are not there. • Do not smoke while pregnant or near someone who is pregnant. Other key messages are tailored to health educators, professionals, and community leaders. The site also outlines the goals for the campaign, which include developing sustainable educational pilot projects and mobilizing local cancer societies and the communities they serve. Now it is your turn. Decide how you can get involved in the efforts. UICC has provided the tools—act now to use them and improve your advocacy skills at the same time. ✱ Are You Up for a Challenge? ONS is excited to announce the launch of the Diversity Champion Program, and we are eagerly seeking volunteers to be diversity champions in their chapters and communities. The diversity champions are a vital team of ONS members who serve as a bridge, welcoming all members and nonmembers to participate and contribute their knowledge to inclusiveness issues—a core value of ONS. Diversity champions will contribute to membership recruitment and retention, cultural competency initiatives, educational programming, and publication production. They will encourage oncology nurses to take Is Diversity an Important Value to You? personal responsibility and a positive attitude toward diverse issues and to transform that view into optimistic organizational responses and change. They will lay the groundwork toward furthering inclusiveness at the chapter level. Very importantly, they will encourage current members within diverse demographics to take on leadership roles in the Society. Would you like to make a difference and improve your institution, ONS chapter, and the Society as a whole? We welcome you to take the challenge! Contact Kate Shaughnessy at kshaughnessy@ons.org for more information today. 20 ONS CONNECT JANUARY 2008

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ONS Connect - January 2008

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