PH Community Proclaims November ‘PH Awareness Month’
L to R: Cindy Pickles, Janet Mabe and Louise Sykes
with a proclamation from Thomasville, N.C.
States, cities, counties and local governments are much more aware of pulmonary hypertension thanks to proclamation requests from veteran advocates and Awareness Month first-timers.
Requests for local governments to recognize November as PH Awareness Month got a boost this year thanks to Doug Taylor’s proclamation challenge. Doug created a Facebook page and asked everyone in the PH community to request proclamations. The PH community responded in a big way! As we go to press, PHers have been presented with 44 proclamations. That is already 14 more than the PH community received in 2010!
Michelle Holden is one advocate who accepted the challenge and ran with it. She received seven proclamations from city councils throughout Florida. Joan Stevenson, who worked with her Lehigh Poconos PH Support Group in Pennsylvania to get four proclamations, said afterwards, “This is the most we have reached out in any year!”
Congratulations to everyone who received a proclamation from their city, county or state recognizing PH Awareness Month! Did you receive a proclamation for Awareness Month? Share your success with PHA by contacting Elisabeth, PHA’s Grassroots Campaigns Associate, at ElisabethW@ PHAssociation.org or 301-565-3004 x753.
State & Local Proclamations
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- State of Arizona
- State of California
- Diamond Bar, Calif.
- Fresno, Calif.
- Cocoa, Fla.
- Jacksonville, Fla.
- Melbourne, Fla.
- Miami, Fla.
- Orlando, Fla.
- Palm Bay, Fla.
- Vero Beach, Fla.
- Council Bluffs, Iowa
- State of Maryland
- Montgomery County, Md.
- Takoma Park, Md.
- State of Minnesota
- State of Nebraska
- Bellevue, Nebr.
- Omaha, Nebr.
- Papillion, Nebr.
- State of New Jersey
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- Clifton, N.J.
- Passaic County, N.J.
- Secaucus, N.J.
- Thomasville, N.C.
- State of Pennsylvania
- Allentown, Penn.
- Lehigh County, Penn.
- Northampton County, Penn.
- Pike County, Penn.
- State of South Carolina
- Easley, S.C.
- Greenville, S.C.
- Spartenberg, S.C.
- Spartenberg County, S.C.
- State of Tennessee
- Bartlett, Tenn.
- Memphis, Tenn.
- Shelby County, Tenn.
- State of Texas
- Corpus Christi, Texas
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Congressional Proclamations and Citations:
- Congresswoman Ann Marie Buerkle (N.Y.)
- Congressman Charles Dent (Penn.)
- State Sen. John A. DeFrancisco (N.Y.) (citation)
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