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Stay in Circulation Campaign

Ways Your Organization Can Support the Stay in Circulation Campaign

aboutpad_220x220_banner3a.jpgIncrease Public Awareness

  • Encourage your members to “tell the story” of P.A.D prevalence, risk, and treatment at the local level.  Make sure your members know about the NHLBI’s Stay in Circulation Community Action Toolkit, new patient stories video and other campaign materials online at www.aboutPAD.org. 
  • Ask your members to create local P.A.D. awareness events by using the available campaign materials. Creative ideas are included in the online Community Action Toolkit.
  • Include a Stay in Circulation banner ad on your organization’s Web site. 
  • Publish the Stay in Circulation print public service announcement (PSA) in consumer publications and encourage your members to use the PSA in hospital newsletters and other patient resources.
  • Encourage your members to work with local media outlets to increase P.A.D. awareness.  Tips for working with the media are included in the online Community Action Toolkit.

Inform Your Members about the Campaign and the P.A.D. Coalition

  • Health professional advertisements and sample newsletter articles that promote new educational resources are available in the Member Resources section.  Feature these items in your health professional journal or newsletter.  Encourage your regional and state chapters to do the same!
  • Include announcements about the Stay and Circulation campaign and the Coalition in electronic newsletters. Click here for sample e-news blast templates.
  • Encourage your members to sign up for the Coalition’s e-news to be informed of new resources and upcoming activities.  Or, provide your members’ e-mail addresses to Gwen Twillman (gtwillman@PADCoalition.org) for inclusion on the Coalition’s e-news distribution.

Educate the Health Care Community and Patients

  • Encourage your members to download the PowerPoint slide set on the new P.A.D. guidelines and incorporate them into an educational presentation for clinicians. Click here to access these slides.
  • Promote the new P.A.D. Guidelines Wall Chart for medical offices. Health professionals can order a free copy from to post in examination rooms. Click here to order.
  • Member organizations can co-brand the Coalition’s series of patient education tools, Lifesaving Tips, with your organization’s logo. Post these resources on your Web site for use by your members.
  • Contact info@PADCoalition.org and request materials to distribute at your medical meetings.  P.A.D. wall charts, pocket reference guides, and a CD of resources are available by visiting our online store.