Sample Activities
This section provides you with a list of ideas for activities that your organization may host during Healthy Vision Month. Some of the activities in this section may be more appropriate than others, depending on your available resources, the needs of your community, and the profile of your target audience.
Here are some ideas you can use to promote healthy vision in your community:
- Host the reading of a proclamation by the mayor or Governor, a flag-raising ceremony, or another media activity to make people in your community aware of the risk of visual impairment from diabetic retinopathy.
- Contact the local chamber of commerce to see what local observances are celebrated during May, Healthy Vision Month. Secure a booth at a local fair or festival and provide information about the importance of annual dilated eye exams for people who have diabetes. Order free educational materials.
- Host eye health night at a game of the local sports team. Feature an eye health presentation during half-time. Give away the Healthy Vision Month refrigerator magnet and other educational materials.
- Check out the health observances calendar at www.healthfinder.gov/library/nho/nho.asp for other health-related activities in May. Consider tying in with Older Americans Month, National Physical Fitness and Sports Month, or National Women's Check-up Day.
- Ask your human resources director about annual dilated eye exam benefits for employees with diabetes and whether you can include information in pay envelopes or the company newsletter.
- Arrange for a local eye care professional to speak at your employee benefits orientation.
- Develop in-service training seminars for medical, health, and social service agencies. Encourage them to include information about diabetic retinopathy in continuing medical education programs.
- Mother's Day is on May 9. Partner with a local eye care professional to hand out coupons for free or discounted eye exams that can be given as Mother's Day gifts.
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