Get Involved
Please offer your support! You can get involved as much or as little as your time allows.
You can support the week's highlighted campaign or promote activities relevant to your mission and objectives.
You can choose the level of support you are able to provide from the following:
Step 1: Sign up!
- Lend your organisation's name to our list of supporters by pledging your support for the campaign - complete and return the pledge form
- Send your logo to ingrid@aa-international.org for inclusion on Arrhythmia Alliance website, newsletters and publications
Step 2: Advertise your support
It's easy to publicise WHRW on your organisation's website and/or newsletter
- Provide a link to: www.whrweek.org
- Download the WHRW Toolkit which includes a press release, pulse check guide, pledge form and disclaimer plus much more.
Step 3: Get involved
- Plan an awareness event relevant to your organisation's mission and objectives under the WHRW umbrella. WHRW is about raising awareness and education of cardiac arrhythmias and sudden death in new and different ways. The WHRW Toolkit provides guidance on how your organisation may get involved.
Ideas for your awareness events include:
- Organisations can download and translate the A-A Pulse Check Guide and other resources. Click here for a list of available publications
- You may want to raise awareness for Sudden Cardiac Arrest by downloading the AED in the Community poster
- You can download the WHRW Event 2011 poster with a specially are for you to announce your planned campaign or event
- Medical professionals may conduct pulse check sessions in their clinic/hospital/community centre
- Individuals/groups may distribute the A-A Pulse Check Guide to physician offices/clinics/community centres/family/friends
Examples of what our affiliates are doing for WHRW 2011:
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Syncope Trust And Reflex anoxic Seizures (STARS), The Blackouts Trust will be campaigning in the UK for Prevention – Putting the Pulse into Practice to diagnose the cause of blackouts. STARS will be raising awareness of the pulse in hospitals, shopping malls and schools and supporting fundraising coffee mornings.
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Atrial Fibrillation Association (AFA) is working to inform and guide national health policy on the vital role that pulse taking and awareness has in both protecting and preventing adverse medical events. AFA aims to ensure that pulse taking is part of routine healthcare embodied in policy, practice and everyday awareness.
Why not think about how your organisation can get involved and let us know?
We would love to hear from you and support your activities!
Email ingrid@aa-international.org to request more information and sign up.
We are determined that with your help, WHRW 2011 will be even more successful than in previous years.