Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Advance Care Planning Ribbon - NHPCO and Caring Connections are asking you to help raise awareness about the importance of advance care planning by wearing the white It’s About How You LIVE ribbon – or a simple white ribbon of your own. Wearing the ribbon is particularly important on March 31 to honor the 5 year anniversary of Terri Schiavo’s death to focus national attention on the importance of talking about healthcare decisions before a crisis. The awareness ribbon also calls attention to the upcoming annual National Healthcare Decisions Day (NHDD) on April 16. (For more information about NHDD, visit www.nhdd.org).
The white awareness ribbon reflects the message of peace long associated with the white dove and the It’s About How You LIVE campaign encourages people to:
Learn about options for end-of-life care
Implement plans to ensure your wishes are honored
Voice decisions to family, friends and health care providers
Engage others in conversations about the importance of advance care planning
You can order the Advance Care Planning Awareness Ribbon from NHPCO’s Marketplace or create your own cloth ribbon to wear or give to others.
Read more about the Advance Care Planning Awareness Ribbon campaign in NHPCO's press release from March 16, 2010.
Here are some suggestions of how you can use the ribbon as a community outreach tool:
Share white ribbons with your staff, volunteers, and people in your community and encourage them to wear them on March 31, April 16 or any time they want to help promote advance care planning.
Talk to your community partners – faith communities, businesses, referral sources – about distributing ribbons and other advance care planning resources.
Offer to do conduct presentations on advance care planning in your community.
A local business or individual contributor may be interested in supporting your awareness campaign efforts by purchasing the ribbon pins or printing the engagement cards for your organization. Offer to put their logo or message of support on the backside of the engagement card. You may also add a message of your own on the reverse side of the engagement card!
Engagement Cards – explaining the awareness ribbon and the LIVE message are available for downloading. Print them on cardstock or similar paper stock, then attach the awareness ribbon pin or a simple white ribbon of your own. Distribute to staff, volunteers, and throughout your community. The cards are available in three formats:
four cards on a page [PDF]
eight cards on a page [PDF]
Awareness Ribbon Flyer - use this 8 ½” by 11” flyer on bulletin boards in your office, local library, grocery store, faith community…anywhere a public interest notice might be found.
Let local media and other audiences know about your local efforts that are part of this national outreach campaign.
For more Advance Care Planning resources including brochures click here.
For more information and other community outreach resources, please visit www.caringinfo.org/Community
Fifth Anniversary of Terri Schiavo's Death:
Wear a White Ribbon to Raise Awareness of Advance Care Planning
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