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Please visit Health Observances for the latest updates on days, weeks, or months devoted to promoting particular health concerns.

Parents, health professionals, teachers, community groups, and others can use these special times to sponsor health promotion events, stimulate awareness of health risks, or focus on disease prevention.

Information appearing in this document does not represent an endorsement by your Pediatric's Guide, who does not have any role in naming any national health observance day, week, or month.

April

Alcohol Awareness Month

• National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence
• About Alcoholism

Cancer Control Month

• American Cancer Society
• About Cancer

Counseling Awareness Month

• American Counseling Association
• About Mental Health

IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) Awareness Month

• International Foundation for Functional Gastrointestinal Diseases
• About Irritable Bowel/Crohn's Disease

National Autism Awareness Month

• Autism Society of America
• About Autism

National Child Abuse Prevention Month

• National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information
• About Abuse

National Occupational Therapy Month

• The American Occupational Therapy Association, Inc
• About Occupational Therapy

National STD Awareness Month

• American Social Health Association
• About STD's

National Youth Sports Safety Month

• National Youth Sports Safety Foundation

Women’s Eye Health Safety Month

• Prevent Blindness America
• Vision Screening for Kids

1-7 National Public Health Week

• American Public Health Association

1-7 National Sleep Awareness Week

• National Sleep Foundation
• About Sleep Disorders

3 Kick Butts Day

• National Center for Tobacco-Free Kids
• About Smoking Cessation

5-7 Alcohol-Free Weekend

• National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Inc.
• About Alcoholism

7 World Health Day

• American Association for World Health

7-13 International Building Safety Week

• National Conference of States on Building Codes and Standards, Inc.

13 YMCA Healthy Kids Day

• YMCA of the USA
• About Pediatrics

14-20 National Infants Immunization Week

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: National Immunization Program

14-20 National Minority Cancer Awareness Week

• Cancer Information Service
• About Cancer

21-27 National Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness Week

• Coalition on Donation

22-28 National Playground Safety Week

• National Program for Playground Safety

27-28 2002 WalkAmerica

• March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation
• About Walking

Source: 2002 National Health Observances, National Health Information Center, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC.