you own local PSA - April is autism awareness month!

[Guest guest]

I have an idea for everyone. I live

just outside of little Gettysburg PA, home to Lincoln’s

Gettysburg Address and the civil war. On the corner in the “tourist”

area is a bank. The bank has big window boxes. I see displays for

various things there all the time – breast cancer awareness, girl scouts,

etc. I think April, it should have an Autism Awareness display in

it. It’s quiet, it’s passive, it’s effective. Not

only do you hit the business owners (who might donate to your local support

group etc) who use the bank walking in to do bank business, but other community

people and tourists. I bet there is a bank like this in every town.

Ask now, and hope they don’t already have April’s display

promised. I am going to make up project boards with stats, autism early

warning signs, pics, links and info. I am also going to supply the bank

with printed brochures on autism and ribbons to hand out free for anyone who

wants one. This is a good, cheap way to get autism more in the public

view.

If anyone has anything to add, please

share.

Holly

[Guest guest]

Holly,

We do this each year at our son's school in the main hall display as

well as the local libraries. We also offer information about local

resource agencies. I also have a real rough top ten list of things

folks can do minimally that I'll e-mail back to folks if you contact

me.

We also send PSA's to local news and radio stations. They are

obligated to run community awareness peices and will do so if you

sent them in the proper format. We also do a new one each year for

our local cable channel and then they use it on other cable stations

as well.

Loads of stuff to do. We take information to our school board

meeting w/ribbons and resources each year, do so also to our local

township board and have them proclaim autism awareness month. Same

with our state legislators for a state proclaimation.

We then put a face on who to contact about ASD. Our son accompanies

us to all events as well and folks know him and follow his progress.

Hope this helps,

Carolyn

P.S. I also have a document for folks to host a first responder

event in your community. This is very important and if folks would

like this e-mail me.

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> I have an idea for everyone. I live just outside of little

Gettysburg PA,

> home to Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and the civil war. On the

corner in

> the " tourist " area is a bank. The bank has big window boxes. I

see

> displays for various things there all the time - breast cancer

awareness,

> girl scouts, etc. I think April, it should have an Autism

Awareness display

> in it. It's quiet, it's passive, it's effective. Not only do you

hit the

> business owners (who might donate to your local support group etc)

who use

> the bank walking in to do bank business, but other community

people and

> tourists. I bet there is a bank like this in every town. Ask

now, and hope

> they don't already have April's display promised. I am going to

make up

> project boards with stats, autism early warning signs, pics, links

and info.

> I am also going to supply the bank with printed brochures on

autism and

> ribbons to hand out free for anyone who wants one. This is a

good, cheap

> way to get autism more in the public view.

>

>

>

> If anyone has anything to add, please share.

>

>

>

> Holly

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