thanbey
03-16-2004, 09:21 PM
Hepatitis C Outreach Project has been named a partner organization for the Amercian Public Health Association''s National Public Health Week, April 5-11, 2004
We are suggesting the Surgeon General''s letter that DID NOT get sent out as the perfect tool for distribution in communities around the country. Sort of taking the bull be the horns, as it were. It is an extension of our continuing effort( "Stamp out Ignorance (http://www.hcop.org/hcvinfo/articles/index.cfm?articleid=153)") to get a Surgeon General's letter sent to the American People as was promised FOUR YEARS AGO.
Some ideas for distribution are:
Putting the letter in you local food bank bags.
Leaving them on your neighbor's door/ doorstep.
Offering yourself as a interview subject for your local news to talk about the Stamp out Ignorance campaign and hepatitis C.
A Hepatitis C Awareness Sunday at your church or Sunday School. Or, putting the letter in the pews (with pastor permission, of course)
Anything you can come up with to spread the word in your community.
If we can unite in this one effort, across belief systems and across differences of opinion, this community can be heard on this single issue (awareness) and potentially impact money for research into a cure, programs in public health and treatment. The American Public Health Association and Hepatitis C Outreach are partnering. There is no money involved at all. It will be a matter of you efforts as concerned people to bring this forward into the light.
We can't do this without your help. In fact, it won't get done at all without you.
Teresa Hanbey
Executive Director,
Hepatitis C Outreach Project (http://www.hcop.org)
List of National Partners (http://www.apha.org/NPHW/sponsors/national.cfm)
We are suggesting the Surgeon General''s letter that DID NOT get sent out as the perfect tool for distribution in communities around the country. Sort of taking the bull be the horns, as it were. It is an extension of our continuing effort( "Stamp out Ignorance (http://www.hcop.org/hcvinfo/articles/index.cfm?articleid=153)") to get a Surgeon General's letter sent to the American People as was promised FOUR YEARS AGO.
Some ideas for distribution are:
Putting the letter in you local food bank bags.
Leaving them on your neighbor's door/ doorstep.
Offering yourself as a interview subject for your local news to talk about the Stamp out Ignorance campaign and hepatitis C.
A Hepatitis C Awareness Sunday at your church or Sunday School. Or, putting the letter in the pews (with pastor permission, of course)
Anything you can come up with to spread the word in your community.
If we can unite in this one effort, across belief systems and across differences of opinion, this community can be heard on this single issue (awareness) and potentially impact money for research into a cure, programs in public health and treatment. The American Public Health Association and Hepatitis C Outreach are partnering. There is no money involved at all. It will be a matter of you efforts as concerned people to bring this forward into the light.
We can't do this without your help. In fact, it won't get done at all without you.
Teresa Hanbey
Executive Director,
Hepatitis C Outreach Project (http://www.hcop.org)
List of National Partners (http://www.apha.org/NPHW/sponsors/national.cfm)