BFRB Awareness Week

Your Voice Made a All the Difference!

Thank you for the best BFRB Awareness Week yet! Our voices combined across the globe; reaching tens of thousands of people during BFRB Awareness Week! TLC's facebook posts alone reached 17,843 individuals, and we were truly touched by the personal stories of outreach that we received from sufferers of all ages. Keep reading for some Awareness Week Highlights:

School Counselors Receive BFRB Information: During Awareness Week, TLC mailed 6,500 postcards to school counselors across the country. Additionally, TLC members distributed as many as 3,500 postcards within their communities. The postcards directed counselors to the new resource page for Educators.

Two States Recognize Awareness Week: Thanks to TLC volunteers, both Massachusetts and Tennessee issued official proclamations declaring Oct. 1-7 as National Trichotillomania Awareness Week. State proclamations attract media attention to our cause and awareness efforts.

Media Outreach

The BFRB community has quite the army of bloggers and journalists working hard to get the word out about BFRBs. Check out these links to some our favorites:

5 Things to Remember When Telling Someone You're Dating You Have Trich
by Sandy Rosenblatt
5 Things to Know When Dating Someone with Trichotillomania
a companion article also written by Sandy
When you can't stop pick, pick, picking at your skin
an older article that made the rounds during Awareness Week
Hawaii-born woman with secret disorder wants to give others hope
aired on KOHN 2 in Hawaii (we received a dozen emails thanks to this news story!).

Personal Stories were abundant. Hundreds of people shared their BFRB story on Facebook, tumblr and twitter, many wrote TLC to let us know of the positive support and feedback they received.

Inspired by Josie (via facebook)
Finally Recognized by Laura Barton
No Longer Ashamed by blogger "A Single Parent Is"
Empowerment through Advocacy by Angela Hartlin

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