Get Involved
You can help by joining IAPS in our worldwide effort to advance education, awareness, and research to help the youngest stroke patients survive and thrive. Please consider helping in many ways: Follow & Share, Raise Awareness, Donate, Advocate, Advance Research, Connect Us, and more…
Follow & Share
- Use Social Media to follow, like, share, comment, tag and blog about IAPS and pediatric stroke to build awareness.
- Sign up for our newsletter
Raise Awareness
- Share our fact sheets and website with: family, friends, co-workers, teachers, coaches, school nurses, firemen, police, paramedics, hospitals, healthcare providers and anyone that should know about strokes in children.
- Place fact sheets in medical offices/on bulletin boards
- Pass along the newest Scientific Statement on pediatric stroke
- May 2022 CALL FOR VIDEOS OF PEDIATRIC STROKE WARRIORS! For Pediatric Stroke Awareness Month in May, we want to see how your stroke warrior has adapted to life after stroke by seeing how they participate in everyday life. Do they love to ride a bike? Play sports? Cook? Dance? Color? We’d love to see how they’re living their best life after stroke. Videos will be shared on our Facebook and Twitter pages, and we’ll compile all videos at the end of the month into an easy-to-view playlist on YouTube. If interested in participating, please email IAPS Board Member and social media liaison Camie Rodan at camie.rodan@gmail.com with your video and a brief 2 – 3 sentences description of you (if you are the pediatric stroke warrior) or your child. You can see the video that was created last year from our warriors all over the world here. Our goal is to post a video every day in May to celebrate our kids!
May 2022 Pediatric Stroke Awareness t-shirts! Our friend Dana Morgan of Positively Tees (and mom to a pediatric stroke warrior) designed the May 2022 awareness t-shirts that celebrate and honor our pediatric stroke warriors! They include names of 300 of our stroke warriors! The sales have now closed, but we want to say thank you to more than 1,100 of you that purchased shirts! Dana donated $5 of every shirt sold to IAPS! Thank you so much Dana!
Pediatric Stroke Awareness t-shirts! Pediatric stroke dad Evan Dutcher of Sweettees has you covered if you weren’t able to order the May 2022 shirts. You can pre-order their bright rainbow pediatric stroke awareness t-shirts in honor of their son Bryce, a perinatal stroke warrior. They have Adult sizes and Children’s sizes and $7 of each shirt will be donated to IAPS!
Donate
Advocate
- Form a team for your local American Heart Association Heart Walk in the U.S.
- Start a local support group in your area. We can give you start-up pointers, contact us.
- Share your child’s story with local news media
Advance Research
- We can help with recruitment for research studies
- Connect us with research results to ensure access to the most current medical information
Connect Us To
- Medical conferences for presenting
- Leading medical associations for education opportunities
- Funding opportunities for grants and research
- Community or online organizations