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Below is a list of National Celebration Months/Weeks related to Disability issues. If you know of any others, please email us the Month and event information and we will add them to this calendar. Thank You!

January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December

January

Folic Acid Awareness Week (January 6 -12)
National Birth Defects Prevention Month
http://www.spinabifidaassociation.org/site/c.evKRI7OXIoJ8H/b.8524963/k.73ED/January_2013_SBA_Recognizes_Folic_Acid_Awareness_Week.htm

March of Dimes Birth Defects Month
March of Dimes
1275 Mamaroneck Avenue
White Plains, NY 10605
National Office Phone: 914-997-4488
http://www.marchofdimes.com

Glaucoma Awareness Month
Glaucoma Research Foundation
251 Post Street, Suite 600
San Francisco, CA 94108
Toll-free Phone: 800-826-6693
Phone: 415-986-3162
http://www.glaucoma.org/news/january_is_glau.html

Thyroid Awareness Month
http://thyroid.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.thyroid-info.com/campaign2005


February

American Heart Month
American Heart Association
National Center
7272 Greenville Avenue
Dallas, TX 75231
Phone: 800-242-8721
http://www.americanheart.org


March

Brain Injury Awareness Month
Brain Injury Association of America (BIAA)
Phone: 800-444-6443
http://www.biausa.org

For Indiana Residents:
BIA of Indiana
Exec Director: Stacy Payne
9531 Valparaiso Court, Suite A
Indianapolis, IN 46268
Phone: 317-356-7722
Fax: 317-808-7770
E-mail: info@biai.org
Website: http://www.biausa.org/Indiana

Disability Awareness Month
2007 Theme - Make Room for Everyone
Indiana Governor's Council for People with Disabilities
Disability Awareness Month 2007
c/o Borshoff Johnson Matthews
47 S. Pennsylvania St., Suite 500
Indianapolis, IN 46204-3657
http://www.in.gov/gpcpd
To order materials: http://www.in.gov/gpcpd/projects/2007_DAM_Order_Form3.pdf

MR/DD (Mental Retardation Awareness Month)
Mosaic
4980 S. 118th St.
Omaha, NE 68137-2220
Phone: 877-3MOSAIC
http://www.mosaicinfo.org/nmra/index.htm

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Awareness Month
Multiple Sclerosis Association of America (MSAA)
706 Haddonfield Road
Cherry Hill, NJ 08002
Phone: 856-488-4500
Fax: 856-661-9797
E-mail: msaa@msaa.com
Multiple Sclerosis Association of America (MSAA):
http://www.msaa.com/MS_Awarness_Month.htm
Multiple Sclerosis Foundation (MSF):
http://www.msfocus.org/programs_edumonth.php

Diabetes Awareness Day
American Diabetes Association
ATTN: National Call Center
1701 North Beauregard St.
Alexandria, VA 22311
Phone: 800-342-2383
http://www.diabetes.org/


April

Autism Awareness Month
Autism Society of America
7910 Woodmont Avenue, Suite 300
Bethesda, MD 20814-3067
Phone: 800-328-8476
http://www.autism-society.org/

Cancer Control Month
Phone: 800-ACS-2345
http://www.cancer.org

National Occupational Therapy Month
The American Occupational Therapy Association, Inc.
4720 Montgomery Lane
PO Box 31220
Bethesda, MD 20824-1220
Phone: 301-652-2682
http://www.aota.org


May

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) Awareness Month
also known as Lou Gehrig's disease
The ALS Association
27001 Agoura Road, Suite 150
Calabasas Hills, CA 91301
Phone: 818-880-9007
http://www.alsa.org/news/article.cfm?id=637&CFID=2563151&CFTOKEN=6029759

Better Speech and Hearing Month
American Speech Language Hearing Association
10801 Rockville Pike
Rockville, MD 20852
Phone: 800-638-8255
http://www.asha.org

Mental Health Month
National Mental Health Association
2000 N. Beauregard St., 6th Floor
Alexandria, VA 22311
Phone: 703-684-7722
http://www.nmha.org

National Alpha-1 Awareness Month (Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency)
Alpha-1 Association
2937 SW 27 Avenue, Suite 106
Miami, FL 33133
Phone: 800-521-3025
www.alpha1.org

National Arthritis Awareness Month
Arthritis Foundation
PO Box 7669
Atlanta, GA 30357-0669
Phone: 800-568-4045
http://www.arthritis.org

National Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month
Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA)
1233 20th St. NW, Suite 402
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: 800-727-8462
http://www.aafa.org

Osteoporosis Month
National Osteoporosis Foundation
1232 22nd Street N.W.
Washington, D.C.
20037-1292
Phone: 202-223-2226
http://www.nof.org/

Alcohol & Other Drug-Related Birth Defects Week
National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Inc. (NCADD)
22 Cortlandt Street, Suite 801
New York, NY 10007-3128
Phone: 212-269-7797
HOPE LINE: 800/NCA-CALL (24-hour Affiliate referral)
Fax: 212-269-7510
E-mail: national@ncadd.org
http://www.ncadd.org/programs/awareness/index.html


June

National Cancer Survivor's Day (Usually celebrated first Sunday each June)
National Cancer Survivor's Day Foundation, Inc.
PO Box 682285
Franklin, TN 37068-2285
Phone: 615-794-3006
http://www.nscdf.org

National Scleroderma Awareness Month
300 Rosewood Drive, Suite 105
Danvers, MA 01923
Phone: 800-722-HOPE
http://www.scleroderma.org/
http://www.scleroderma.org/news/news2006/news2006_june_awareness5.shtm


July

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Anniversary (7/26/90)
ADA Home Page: Information and Technical Assistance on the Americans with Disabilities Act
http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/adahom1.htm

The White House: Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, 2006: A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/07/20060725-3.html

National Therapeutic Recreation Week (3rd week)
NTRS
22377 Belmont Ridge Road
Ashburn, VA 20148
Phone: 703-858-0784
http://www.nrpa.org/content/default.aspx?documentId=890


August

Child Accident Prevention Week
http://www.childsafe.org.za/capweek.htm


September

National Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Awareness Day
CHADD National Office
8181 Professional Place - Suite 150
Landover, MD 20785
Phone: 301-306-7070
Fax: 301-306-7090
http://www.chadd.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home§ion=Community_Services&template=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentFileID=67
Indiana Chapter:
Monroe County CHADD
Phone: 812-334-1524

National Rehabilitation Week
475 Morgan Highway
PO Box 71
Scranton, PA 18501
Toll Free Phone: 800-943-NRAF (6723)
Phone: 570-341-4637
http://www.nraf-rehabnet.org/

National Sickle Cell Disease Awareness Month
Sickle Cell Disease Association of America
231 East Baltimore St, STE 800
Baltimore, MD 21202
E-mail: scdaa@sicklecelldisease.org
http://www.sicklecelldisease.org/news/events/month.phtml


October

CSA Celiac Disease Awareness Month
Celiac Sprue Association (CSA)
PO Box 31700
Omaha, NE 68131-0700
Toll Free Phone: 877-CSA-4CSA
Fax: 402-558-1347
Email: celiacs@csaceliacs.org
http://www.csaceliacs.org/month.php

Friedeich's Ataxia (Movement Disorders) Awareness Month
Friedreich's Ataxia Research Alliance (FARA)
P.O. Box 1537
Springfield, VA 22151
Phone: 703-426-1576
E-mail: fara@CureFA.org
http://www.curefa.org/news/2005-07-28.asp

Lupus Awareness Month
Lupus Foundation of America, Inc.
National Office
2000 L Street, N.W., Suite 710
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: 202-349-1155
Fax: 202-349-1156
800-558-0121 (Information request line)
800-558-0231 (Spanish information request line)
http://www.lupus.org/awareness/2006campaign.html

National AIDS Awareness Month
Amnesty International USA
5 Penn Plaza
New York, NY 10001
Phone: 212-807-8400
Fax: 212-627-1451
http://blogs.amnestyusa.org/student-activism/archive/2006/10/02/afynpwk7bd48.htm

National Breast Cancer Awareness Month (NBCAM)
PO Box 15437
Wilmington, DE 19850-5437
Toll-free: (877) 88-NBCAM (877-886-2226)
Telephone: (202) 861-6753
Fax: (202) 293-2352
www.nbcam.org

National Disability Employment Awareness Month
See Presidential Proclamation: http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode36/usc_sec_36_00000121----000-.html

National Down Syndrome Month
National Down Syndrome Society
666 Broadway
New York, NY 10012
Phone: 800-221-4602
http://www.ndss.org

Mental Illness Awareness Week
National Association of Mental Illness (NAMI)
Colonial Place Three
2107 Wilson Blvd., Suite 300
Arlington, VA 22201-3042
Phone: 703-524-7600
http://www.nami.org


November

National Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Month
225 N. Michigan Avenue, FL 17
Chicago, IL 60601-7633
Phone: 800-272-3900
http://www.alz.org

National Diabetes Month
American Diabetes Association
ATTN: National Call Center
1701 N. Beauregard St.
Alexandria, VA 22311
Phone: 800-342-2383
http://www.diabetes.org/home.jsp

National Disabled Americans Week
Public Papers of Ronald Reagan, November 1988
Proclamation 5902 -- National Disabled Americans Week, 1988
http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1988/110588h.htm

National Epilepsy Awareness Month
Epilepsy Foundation
8301 Professional Place
Landover, MD 20785-7223
Phone: 800-332-1000
http://www.epilepsyfoundation.org

National Hospice Month
National Hospice &Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO)
1700 Diagonal Road, Suite 625
Alexandria, VA 22314
Phone: 703-837-1500
http://www.nhpco.org/templates/1/homepage.cfm

Spina Bifida Awareness Month
http://www.spinabifidaassociation.org/site/c.evKRI7OXIoJ8H/b.8361041/
Spina Bifida Association
4590 MacArthur Blvd., NW, Suite 250
Washington, DC 20007-4226
Phone: (800) 621-3141 or (202) 944-3285
Fax: (202) 944-3295


December

Universal Human Rights Month
Know Your Rights!
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Adopted on December 10, 1948 by the General Assembly of the United Nations (without dissent)
http://www.udhr.org/UDHR/default.htm