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2008 Disability Events & Holidays

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January

• National Blood Donor Month
• National Glaucoma Awareness Month
• Cataract Awareness Month
• Cervical Cancer Awareness Month
• National Birth Defects Prevention Month
• Thyroid Awareness Month
• National Cancer Consciousness Week

February

• Heart Month
• AMD/Low Vision Awareness Month
• Dental Health Month
• National Wear Red Day 2008 (1)
• National Donor Day (14)
• Leprosy Prevention and Control Week (25-29)
• National Eating Disorders Awareness Week (24-1)

March

• Rabies Awareness Month
• National Brain Injury Awareness Month
• National Kidney Month
• Burn Injury Prevention Month
• Colon and Rectal Cancer Awareness Month
• Talking Books Week (3-8)
• Daylight Savings Time begins (9)
  *Beginning in 2007, DST starts the second Sunday of March and ends on the first Sunday of November.
• Brain Awareness Week (10-16)
• World Kidney Day (13)
• World Water Day (22)
• World TB Day (24)

April

• National Autism Month
• National Cancer Control Month
• World Health Day (7)
• PSTCC Mental Health Awareness Day (15): Goins Student Lounge 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

May

• National Stroke Awareness Month
• Healthy Vision Month
• Better Hearing and Speech Month
• World Asthma Day (1^st Tuesday in May)
• National Hurricane Preparedness Week (25-31)
• World No Tobacco Day (31)

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Updated May 14, 2008