Awareness Days
If you want to promote meetings around specific topics or events, we recommend looking at national and global awareness days, as well as holidays.
Here are a list of some examples for you to consider.*
*Note: HeyPeers does not endorse any particular awareness day, organization, or information that is included in this article. This list has only been compiled as an example for Independent Peer Supporters to consider when promoting their services for any given topic of their own experiences.
January
- Self Love Month
February
- National Eating Disorders Awareness Month (NEDAwareness Week)
March
- March 30: World Bipolar Day
April
- National Stress Awareness Day
- Alcohol Awareness Month
May
- May: National Mental Health Awareness Month
- May: Borderline Personality Disorder Awareness Month
June
- June: LGBTQ+ Pride Month
July
- National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month
August
- August 30: National Grief Awareness Day
September
- Suicide Prevention Awareness Month (SPAM)
- Call or text 988, or Chat 988lifeline.org to reach the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.
October
- Mental Illness Awareness Week and World Mental Health Day
- October 2-8, 2022: Mental Illness Awareness Week (NAMI)
- Tuesday October 4, 2022: National Day of Prayer for Mental Illness Recovery and Understanding
- Thursday October 6, 2022: National Depression Screening Day
- October 10, 2022: World Mental Health Day (UN). Theme for 2022: "Make mental health for all a global priority"
- October 2-8, 2022: Mental Illness Awareness Week (NAMI)
- October 9-15, 2022: International OCD Awareness Week
- October 11: Annual National Coming Out Day
- October 19, 2022: Love Your Body Day
November
- November 2, 2022: National Stress Awareness Day (annually first Wednesday in November)
- November 19, 2022: International Survivors of Suicide Loss Day (annually the Saturday before Thanksgiving)
December
- December 1: World AIDS Day
- December 3: International Day of Persons with Disabilities
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