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Volunteers from my Vancouver Adult Support Group (we have members from Whistler to Mission ) and I are planning different activities during ADHD Awareness Week October 14th to 20thto help build Awareness of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Vancouver and the lower mainland.
Download our ADHD Awareness Week Posters created by one of our talented graphic designers in jpeg for the web and PDF for printing format. Please print it off / share it and help spread the word!
Here’s the jpeg file of the poster for the web, pdf file is below
8.5″ x 11″ Metro Van ADHD Awareness Week Poster Printer jpg format for the web
8.5″ x 11″ Metro Van ADHD Awareness Week Poster Printer PDF format for Printing
Here’s our main page on ADHD Awareness Activities we’re doing which will be updated as things go along.
Thanks to the volunteers of my Vancouver Adult ADD Support Group. Thanks to our supporters Mills Office Supplies for printing our ADHD Awareness Posters, The Roundhouse Community Center for hosting our information table and all the libraries and bookstores in 5 BC cities holding ADHD book displays and our poster.
What’s going on in Vancouver, Richmond, Burnaby, Coquitlam and Maple Ridge for ADHD Awareness Week?
ADHD Information Table: Volunteers of my Vancouver Adult ADD Support Group, the adult Group of CHADD Vancouver, and I will have an information table at the popular Roundhouse Community Center in Yaletown the first day of ADHD Awareness week Oct 14th from 10-5pm
ADHD Book Displays In Libraries:
We’re working with Libraries in Vancouver and the surrounding areas to have ADHD book displays. They’ll have a display with books on ADHD, books by authors who have gone public with having ADHD and one of our ADHD Awareness Week posters.
Vancouver Public Libraries: We’ll have displays in the Britannia library, Champlain Heights library, the Kerrisdale Library, Kitsilano library, Carnegie library West Point Grey library, Marpole library, Hastings library, Dunbar library and we’ll find out from others soon.
Richmond Public Libraries: All 5 Richmond Public Libraries will have ADHD book displays Brighouse library, Ironwood library, Steveston library, Cambie library and Hamilton library.
Burnaby Public Libraries: McGill library will have an ADHD Book display
Coquitlam Libraries: Poirier library will have an ADHD Book display
Maple Ridge Public Library will have an ADHD book display
ADHD Book Displays In Bookstores:
Odin Books in Vancouver on Broadway near Oak Street will have an ADHD book display in their window 14-20th and one of our ADHD Awareness Week posters.
Chapters Bookstores will also have ADHD book displays with books on ADHD, books by authors who have gone public with having ADHD and one of our ADHD Awareness Week posters. See the Chapters Broadway store, the Robson store, and the Richmond store in Richport Town Centre.
Background: They’ve had ADHD Awareness Days/Weeks nationally in the US since 2004. Zero ADHD awareness days/weeks nationally in Canada.
Vancouver was the first city in Canada to declare ADHD Awareness Week last year. Thanks to Parks Commissioner Sarah Blyth who was the first politician in North America to go public with having ADHD in office, Councillor Andrea Reimer and Mayor Gregor Robertson who worked with me (Adult ADHD Coach Pete Quily) to help make it happen.
My Vancouver adult ADD Support group first did an ADHD Awareness event back in 2006. We did a talk together with the Dianne Sugars Executive Director of the Learning Disabilities Association of Vancouver and did a call in show together on BC Almanac
How You Can Help:
If you know any reporter or producer in the media or any blogger that might be interested in covering our ADHD Awareness Week, or helping get the word out about it, please let them know.
Or if you could download and print one of the posters in your neighbourhood or workplace, or let people know on Twitter or Facebook.
Thanks
Pete