There have been a lot of great suggestions so far. Keep them coming. Lets see how creative we can get.
Instead of having a list of activities that you should do for a specific day of the week, here is a list of ideas that you can do over the week and for the rest of the year too. Thats the best part about awareness...It does not have to end because the week ends.
Do some sort of community outreach. Some people are having fundraising walks with family, friends, and coworkers. Some are having people over for an evening of awareness. Some are going out to a local hang out and spreading awareness there through handing out information, talking to people and wearing awareness gear. See the UBPN Store if you dont have any awareness gear...Its not too late to get some!
Hand out awareness items...The UBPN Store has car magnets, bracelots, zipper pulls, ribbons, and stuffed puppy dogs.
You could also print info from the web site and hand that out. In the coming weeks, there should be new brochures available online for you to print and hand out.
You could share your Outreach or share the link to the online version.
Another great way to spread awareness would be to send an email to everyone that you know asking them to support UBPN by searching through goodsearch.com shopping through the UBPN amazon store or simply making a donation.
Another great idea is to call a local hospital and ask to come speak with whomever is in charge of OBGYN and have an informational meeting about bpi's.
Send in a story to your local papers...Many have in the past written to the editor however if you have a story line you might have better odds of getting a story in the paper. Do you or your child excell in something (for exapmle, community service...Raising money for ubpn
) Papers might be willing to print a warm fuzzy story as a change from the negative that is seen al too often. Go big and write to television stations and see what happens. You never know, you might get lucky and get on TV!
If you happen to be a high school or are a college student, capture your classmates!!! They have to sit there and listen if you do your presentation on bpi's. I even got my OT class to participate in lab one handed and this week we are going bowling and my classmates want to know what its like for me. Capture them once and they might just desire to learn more and even educate others!
Thats just a few of the countless possibilities...Who can come up with the most creative way to spread awareness??? I want to know your secrets, I have shared my biggest one (I captured my classmates who are all studying to become occupational therapists!) I educated 27 future occupational therapists! You all can do better! Save babies from preventable injuries and make your friends aware that bpi's can occur at any time. Drive safe and act responsibly!
Lets spread awareness!
Thanks,
Amy Theis
Awareness Committee Chair