Let's Spread Awareness of Tube Feeding!
Do you want to help us Spread Awareness? Here are just a few ideas to get started.
Use Social Media
Please see our Feeding Tube Awareness Week® Trademark and Usage Guidelines if you are going to be using our trademark in any materials not produced by Feeding Tube Awareness Foundation.
Contact the Media
A number of families have gotten local TV and print coverage featuring individuals who are tube fed for Feeding Tube Awareness Week®. We want to change the narrative to focus on the positive benefits people receive because of tube feeding. There are so many misconceptions about what tube feeding. We encourage patients, parents and caregivers to reach out to their local newspapers, TV stations, and other news outlets with their positive stories about tube feeding and Feeding Tube Awareness Week. The media interest is in the rarity of tube feeding, the conditions that require tube feeding, and the human interest aspect of families who go through challenges to keep their family member as healthy as they can be.
You can promote the positive benefits of tube feeding by:
Share with Medical Professionals
Share Feeding Tube Awareness Week® materials with your doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals. Click to download the following helpful materials.
- We have approved profile pictures and cover images you can use on social media. Download them from our Downloads page.
- Use this app to add a Feeding Tube Awareness Week overlay to your Facebook profile picture.
- Change your Facebook or Twitter Cover Photo to promote awareness. Download a Cover Photo.
- Change your Facebook or Twitter Profile Pic to one about Feeding Tube Awareness. Download a Profile Pic. Feel free to adapt it to add your name or the name of your family member.
- Post or Tweet using the hashtag #feedingtubeawarenessweek.
- Share the Feeding Tube Awareness Week® website on Facebook or Twitter.
- Make an Awareness Video and post it to YouTube, share it on Facebook and Twitter, and let us know by posting it to the Feeding Tube Awareness Facebook page.
- Participate in the daily events by posting on the Feeding Tube Awareness Facebook page.
- Are you part of a non-profit or do you run a small business? Share on your organization's or business' Facebook and Twitter pages.
- Write a blog about Feeding Tube Awareness, share it on Facebook and Twitter, and let us know by posting it to the Feeding Tube Awareness Facebook page.
Please see our Feeding Tube Awareness Week® Trademark and Usage Guidelines if you are going to be using our trademark in any materials not produced by Feeding Tube Awareness Foundation.
Contact the Media
A number of families have gotten local TV and print coverage featuring individuals who are tube fed for Feeding Tube Awareness Week®. We want to change the narrative to focus on the positive benefits people receive because of tube feeding. There are so many misconceptions about what tube feeding. We encourage patients, parents and caregivers to reach out to their local newspapers, TV stations, and other news outlets with their positive stories about tube feeding and Feeding Tube Awareness Week. The media interest is in the rarity of tube feeding, the conditions that require tube feeding, and the human interest aspect of families who go through challenges to keep their family member as healthy as they can be.
You can promote the positive benefits of tube feeding by:
- Countering stereotypes and misinformation about tube feeding
- Highlighting the positive outcomes associated with tube feeding
- Giving more information about the reasons people require tube feeding
- Showing that kids with feeding tubes are still kids
- Contact the Health Editor at your local newspaper and TV station.
- Create your own awareness video and share it widely - post it on your local TV station’s or newspaper’s Facebook and Twitter page.
- Contact your local Patch.com editor.
- Don't forget you may need to be persistent.
- Email any blogs that you follow, especially special needs blogs, and ask to do a guest post or suggest that they blog about Feeding Tube Awareness Week
- Tell your doctors, nurses and therapists about Feeding Tube Awareness Week and encourage them to tell others.
- Give out Feeding Tube Awareness heart tattoos or Awareness Week buttons for Valentine's Day gifts.
- Share your experience using our daily Feeding Tube Awareness Week topics as a guide.
- Let's get #feedingtubeawareness trending across Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram!
Share with Medical Professionals
Share Feeding Tube Awareness Week® materials with your doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals. Click to download the following helpful materials.
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Make an Awareness Video
Making an awareness video is a great way to share your story and spread awareness. This tutorial shares great tips for making your own awareness video that you can share with friends, family on social media and even with news media.
Give a School Presentation
Share your experiences with tube feeding with your local school! This guide offers a sample letter to the teacher/school and a presentation outline to inspire your customized presentation!
Making an awareness video is a great way to share your story and spread awareness. This tutorial shares great tips for making your own awareness video that you can share with friends, family on social media and even with news media.
Give a School Presentation
Share your experiences with tube feeding with your local school! This guide offers a sample letter to the teacher/school and a presentation outline to inspire your customized presentation!
Buy Feeding Tube Awareness Shirts, Pins, and Other Gear
In 2011, we launched t-shirts, hoodie sweatshirts and buttons featuring our logo, with our merchandise partner 3E Love. Overwhelmingly, these items have created opportunities to raise awareness, educate and gain support and acceptance. Thousands of items have been sold worldwide. A portion of the proceeds go to the Feeding Tube Awareness Foundation. Wear them all week long! Visit our Feeding Tube Awareness Store.
Host an Event to Share with Your Family, Friends, Religious Organization, or Community!
Host a friends and family gathering, get together with local tube feeding families, hold a rally, or hold a fundraiser. Our Family and Friends Guidebook can help family and friends to understand.
Ask for a Proclamation
Ask your city, state, county, or country to issue a Proclamation declaring the second week of February Feeding Tube Awareness Week®. Contact them at least a month in advance, and share materials from our Communication Materials page.
In 2011, we launched t-shirts, hoodie sweatshirts and buttons featuring our logo, with our merchandise partner 3E Love. Overwhelmingly, these items have created opportunities to raise awareness, educate and gain support and acceptance. Thousands of items have been sold worldwide. A portion of the proceeds go to the Feeding Tube Awareness Foundation. Wear them all week long! Visit our Feeding Tube Awareness Store.
Host an Event to Share with Your Family, Friends, Religious Organization, or Community!
Host a friends and family gathering, get together with local tube feeding families, hold a rally, or hold a fundraiser. Our Family and Friends Guidebook can help family and friends to understand.
Ask for a Proclamation
Ask your city, state, county, or country to issue a Proclamation declaring the second week of February Feeding Tube Awareness Week®. Contact them at least a month in advance, and share materials from our Communication Materials page.
Get a Tattoo
A growing number of individuals have had our logo tattooed. Check out our gallery of Tubie Love Ink! Not ready for a permanent tattoo? Try out a temporary tattoo, available at Our Store.
Suggestions for Non-Profits
Help use Feeding Tube Awareness Week® to show your support of the positive benefits of enteral nutrition and communicate it to your members and followers. The Feeding Tube Awareness Foundation is happy to discuss ways in which the organization can help support your efforts. The Feeding Tube Awareness Foundation is happy to discuss ways in which the organization can help support your efforts. For support from the Feeding Tube Awareness Foundation, please Contact Us.
- Post it on your social media pages. Images available here.
- Share this site
- Blog about it
- Post it on your website
- Write about it in your newsletter or e-newsletter
- Issue a press release
- Highlight enteral feeding success stories--there are many!
- Make a video using our Video Tutorial
Suggestions for Corporations, Hospitals, Home Health Organizations and Other Large Businesses
The Feeding Tube Awareness Foundation is happy to discuss ways in which the organization can help support your efforts. We are able to provide Parent Guides and Awareness Buttons to sponsoring organizations. Please feel free to Contact Us. These are just some of the ways you can use Feeding Tube Awareness Week® to show your support of the positive benefits of enteral nutrition and communicate it to your members, followers, customers/patients and employees.
- Post about Feeding Tube Awareness Week® on your social media pages
- Blog about it
- Post it on your website
- Write about it in your newsletter or e-newsletter
- Issue a press release
- Highlight enteral feeding success stories
- Email members, employees, reps in the field or relevant customers/patients about your support and participation of Feeding Tube Awareness Week®
- Hold a webinar on a relevant topic – with consumers/patients, members or employees
- Arm reps/employees with information, including the flyer and Awareness Week buttons
- Change your on-hold message to include information about the week, so callers are made aware of your support of the week.
- Make a video
- Hold a fundraiser for an organization that supports the enteral feeding community
- Hold a special event for employees or patients
- Gather feedback from enteral feeders, parents or caregivers on their experiences. Share them with relevant internal and external audiences. Make a clearer link between what you do and the end-user. Patient stories can inspire and motivate.
Suggestions for Small Businesses of Tube Feeding Products
The Feeding Tube Awareness Foundation appreciates the support of small businesses. Your products have come from a personal need and the community benefits from that. We would like to move beyond having Feeding Tube Awareness Week® be just about sales or giveaways. However, we realize that businesses may want to do something special for their customers during the week. If you would like to hold a fundraiser for the Feeding Tube Awareness Foundation or would like information or materials from FTAF, please Contact Us. Here are some suggestions on other things you can do to help raise positive awareness:
- Promote Feeding Tube Awareness Week® on your social media pages, websites or stores.
- Share your story. Why did you start your business? What inspired you?
- Share a special customer story
- Make a video using our Video Tutorial
- Hold a fundraiser for any organization that benefits tube feeders (it doesn’t have to be FTA)
- Include information about Feeding Tube Awareness Week® in your customer orders
Learn More About Feeding Tubes
Visit the Feeding Tube Awareness Foundation's website and download our Parent Guide or Friends and Family Guide.
