


Disability Rights Center
of the Virgin Islands
Phone 340-772-1200
Fax 340-772-0609
63 Cane Carlton
Fredericksted, VI
00840
May 2008
Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month
Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America
www.aafa.org/display.cfm?id=10&sub=99&cont=457
Better Hearing and Speech Month
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
www.asha.org/bhsm/resources.html
Breathe Easy Month
American Lung Association
www.lungusa.org
Hepatitis Awareness Month
Hepatitis Foundation International
World Hepatitis Day - May 19, 2008
www.hepfi.org
Huntington's Disease Awareness Month
Huntingdon's Disease Society of America, Inc.
www.hdsa.org
National Arthritis Month
Arthritis Foundation
http://www.arthritis.org/arthritis-awareness-month.php
National Digestive Diseases Awareness Month
Digestive Disease National Coalition
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Proclamation_5651
National High Blood Pressure Month
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Information Center
www.nhlbi.nih.gov
National Melanoma/Skin Cancer Detection and Prevention Month
American Academy of Dermatology
www.melanomamonday.org
National Mental Health Month
National Mental Health Association
www.mentalhealthamerica.net/go/may/
National Neurofibromatosis Month
National Neurofibromatosis Foundation
www.ctf.org/about-nf/what-is-nf/
National Stroke Awareness Month
National Stroke Association
www.stroke.org/site/PageServer?pagename=SAM
National Trauma Awareness Month
American Trauma Society
www.amtrauma.org/
Tuberous Sclerosis Awareness Month
National Tuberous Sclerosis Association
www.tsalliance.easycgi.com/pages.aspx?content=247
National Suicide Awareness Week
American Association of Suicidology
www.suicidology.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=185
National Mental Health Counseling Week
American Mental Health Counselor Association
http://www.amhca.org/
Childhood Depression Awareness Day
National Mental Health Association
www.nmha.org/go/childhood-depression-awareness-day
National Anxiety Disorders Screening Day
National Mental Illness Screening Project
www.mentalhealthscreening.org/events/ndsd/facts_types.aspx
National Alcohol and Other Drug-Related Birth Defects Week
National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Inc.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/fas/
National Osteoporosis Prevention Week
National Osteoporosis Foundation
http://www.nof.org/awareness2/index.htm
National Stuttering Awareness Week
Stuttering Foundation of America
http://www.stutteringhelp.org/Default.aspx?tabid=17