We don’t just say our programs work.

We can show you. 306 women registered for the Empowering Black Women with MS and Lupus series, and 201 of them showed up and stayed. 97% Black and African American, 98% women, 87% living with a chronic illness or autoimmune condition. Nationwide. Ages 25 to 80 and beyond. This wasn’t a room full of people watching from a distance. It was you. Here’s what happened in that room. 100% of women in the Group Therapy, Ask the Nurse, and Ask the Case Manager sessions reported improvement in emotional processing and resource awareness. Not most. All of them. 94 to 96% left the Ask the Doctor sessions feeling more prepared to talk to their providers. Every single participant in the Ask the Nurse session walked away with tools they could actually use to manage their day to day health. And the number that matters most to us: 93% said they now feel more confident advocating for themselves in healthcare settings. That’s women who went into their next appointment and pushed back instead of nodding along, who asked the question they’d been holding, who said this isn’t working and expected to be heard. 96.6% rated the entire program valuable or very valuable. One participant said it this way: She was able to feel comfortable talking about MS when she usually isn’t comfortable telling her own doctors or family how she’s feeling. That’s what free, culturally specific programming does. And it’s what your support makes possible. These are the numbers. If you’ve been wondering whether what we do actually reaches the women it’s meant for, now you know. Help us keep going. The link to donate is in our bio. #WeAreILLMatic #EmpoweringBlackWomen #BlackWomenWithMS #LupusAwareness #ChronicIllnessCommunity