National Tinnitus Awareness Week May 13-19, 2012

In honor of the upcoming summer Olympics in London, for Tinnitus Awareness Week (TAW) 2012, ATA picked the theme “Carrying the Torch n for Silence.”

We invite you “carry the torch” in your own communities for all of those suffering with tinnitus just like our Tour de Tinnitus riders will, and help to bring much-needed awareness to the condition that affects so many millions of individuals.

The backbone of Tinnitus Awareness Week has always been people who take action in their own communities. We cannot raise the kind of awareness necessary without your help. That is why we have created an easy-to-use TAW 2012 resource center that will give you the tools you need to raise awareness during TAW 2012, and all year long.

The resource center includes:

• An activities calendar for the entire month of May giving you helpful suggestions on easy ways to raise awareness of tinnitus and help contribute to its cure.

• A press release and cover letter to send to your local media outlets including newspapers, TV and radio stations and any online news resources you frequently read, listen to or watch.

• A sample proclamation that you can use to ask your locally elected officials to declare May 13-19, 2012 Tinnitus Awareness Week in your city, town or state.

• A TAW 2012 flyer that you can print out and ask to hang in your local coffee shop, cafe, community center or house of worship, letting people know when TAW is and how they can participate.
   
• Visit ATA.org/TAW2012 to see all the other resources and fun ways we've developed to help make Tinnitus Awareness Week 2012 an incredible success!   

If you are on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, have a blog or are on any other social media site, please consider sharing these resources with your followers, fans and readers! Every little bit of awareness helps ATA fulfill its mission of silencing tinnitus for good.

If you have questions about any of the materials located at ATA.org/TAW2012, contact Jennifer Born at jennifer@ata.org or Katie Fuller at katie@ata.org.