Accreta
Awareness Month

What is it?

• October is Accreta Awareness Month (AAM) and focuses attention on placenta accreta spectrum, one of the fastest growing life-threatening complications of pregnancy.

• Accreta Awareness Month encourages patients, survivors, medical professionals and public health advocates to spread the word about increased rates and risk factors associated with placenta accreta, including cesarean overuse.

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Things You Can Do for Accreta Awareness Month

Spread Awareness:

• Use our free campaign toolkit. These are materials prepared by NAF that you can use during the month. It includes profile photo frames, Facebook and Twitter cover photos, and sample social media posts across all platforms.

• Join our virtual Accreta Awareness 5K and create a fundraising page to join our leaderboard and share your story. Spread awareness and earn AAM fundraising prizes!

• Become a social media champion. Update your social media profile photo to use an accreta frame, share NAF’s posts throughout the month and create your own. Tag National Accreta Foundation in your posts and use the campaign hashtags #1in272 and #AccretaAwareness

• Share NAF’s website with friends and on social media, and help others to understand what placenta accreta spectrum is and that rates are on the rise. Consider creating a fundraiser in honor of AAM or participating in other ways to help the cause.

• Buy a shirt in our gear center and wear it proudly. Take a selfie wearing your gear and share!

Advocate Locally:

• Register to participate in our virtual 5K fundraiser. Join us for our biggest event of the year. Set up a fundraiser and encourage family, friends, and other accreta advocates to help raise awareness by walking or running a 5K during October. Top fundraiser is named our AAM Champion for the year!

• Host a blood drive in October. Learn more about blood donation and use this blood drive toolkit to get started. Be sure to tell us when your blood drive is scheduled. NAF will send Strong as a Mother cards to all October blood drives!

• Illuminate a building or landmark. Help us light the world green during Accreta Awareness Month. Check this list of sites that allow lightings and illuminations to support awareness campaigns and submit an application.

• Find proclamation opportunities. Many states and municipalities make proclamations and recognize awareness campaigns. We have a template letter to send to your local elected officials to request that they proclaim the month of October as Accreta Awareness Month.

Tell Your Story:

• Share your story locally. Think about how you would like to share AAM with your family, friends, in your local newspaper, neighborhood newsletters, or on a blog. If located in the United States, reach out to your state’s Perinatal Quality Collaborative to share your story, offer to speak at a meeting or webinar, and send them the AAM campaign materials.

• Submit your accreta story to NAF’s story bank and consider writing an Accreta Experience article to share with your community. Also, consider submitting your story to ICAN.

• Speak at your local ICAN chapter meeting in October to share your story. ICAN is looking for accreta survivors to speak at meetings around the world. Reach out to your local chapter and offer to attend and speak at a meeting. Most are being held virtually at this time.

• Share your story with MoMMA’s Voices, a coalition of Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Advocates working together to improve United States maternal health. Join as an individual (it’s free!) by submitting your story on their site and getting access to their free training to learn how to be maternal health advocate. Also, check out their annual Champions for Change Summit.

Support Moms:

• Write letters and send care packages. Accreta moms need our support and well wishes. Sign up for our letter writing program and reach out to your local hospitals and doctors to see if they are willing to receive cards or care packages for their accreta patients. Check out these great care packages created by Colorado and Texas moms.

• Get involved locally at your hospital. NAF has an accreta awareness kit: sponsor one to be sent to your hospital and include information about your local support group if one exists in your area.

Congrats to our 2022 Accreta Awareness Champion, Stacy Tate. Stacy’s 5K fundraiser led the way during Accreta Awareness Month and we are grateful for her commitment to sharing her story and bringing awareness to placenta accreta.

your support can help make this the most successful #accretaawareness month ever

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