We are pleased to announce our new, year-long awareness campaign for 2010. In the past, the SADS awareness campaigns have
been once a year for about 6 weeks. In
2010, raising awareness of SADS conditions will be our top priority and the campaign
will last the entire year. The campaign slogan is "Keeping Hearts Beating" and will be featured on our new posters and
other materials. Watch for Keeping Hearts Beating wristbands--coming
soon! Each quarter we will focus on
different groups.
Quarter one will focus on community buildings and
spaces. A new poster has been designed
and volunteers will be asked to "blast" their community with posters and
information. New media prompts will also
be provided for volunteers to submit in order to get articles in their
community newsletters.
The focus for the second quarter is sports and
athletics. The poster for this quarter
will feature risk assessment and AED information and will be placed in
gymnasiums, recreation centers, etc.
Also during the second quarter, the SADS Foundation will issue an
official letter to use to advocate risk assessment questions be added to sports
screenings. The letter will be
distributed to youth athletic organizations.
The third quarter is the annual
SADS Safe Schools campaign. This year,
we will be focusing more on school nurses and plan to exhibit at the National
Association of School Nurses annual conference in Chicago in late July.
The fourth quarter will focus on
medical professional education. The new
poster will be taken to community
health clinics, emergency rooms, after-hours clinics, and physician's offices.
A door-knocking campaign is being planned for this quarter to correspond
with Sudden Cardiac Arrest Awareness month in October.
Don't miss out! Help SADS boost
awareness in your community.
We rely on our volunteers to help us spread the word of SADS conditions. Join us in our effors and become a SADS awareness volunteer by e-mailing
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or calling 800-786-7723. Also, please complete a volunteer application .
Awareness Volunteer Activity #1
Each quarter, in addition to hanging posters in the targeted locations, we will have a few volunteer action items. Since we are focusing on awareness in local communities this quarter, the first action item is contacting your community newsletters. Poeople usually read newsletters from organizations with which they are invovled very carefully, thus it is an ideal way to reach people. We have the articles and advertisements written, all we need is you!
It's simple, here's how:
Identify local newsletters, these can include any/all of the following:
Churches
Municipal
Community Organizations ie: Rotary Club, Lion's Club, etc.
Your company/place of employment
Library
Call and ask if they would be willing to include an article about LQTS and SADS conditions. If space is limited, ask for even a few lines to include the symptoms and warning signs or a small advertisement.
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E-mail
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to let SADS know you contacted newsletters, regardless of if they were willing to place an ad or article in their newsletter. For reporting purposes, we need to track all attempts/successes.
If you have any questions or issues, please e-mail
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or call 800-786-7723.
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