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Advocacy

Schools, organizations, large and small, encouraged to show support on Purple Day

March 24, 2015

By Deron Hamel Scotiabank branches in 116 Ontario communities will be raising awareness of epilepsy on Purple Day on March 26. The financial institute is the largest organization in the province to jump on board in support of the epilepsy community’s most celebrated awareness event. This marks the first year Scotiabank has hosted Purple Day…

Amherstburg mother a true champion of epilepsy awareness

February 19, 2015

Deanna Sinasac has worked tirelessly to raise epilepsy awareness in Amherstburg, Ont., especially among students and staff at her daughter’s primary school. Her daughter, Alexis, is a Grade 4 student at Amherstburg Public School. She also has epilepsy. But because of her mother’s efforts to raise epilepsy awareness at the school, staff and students have…

Epilepsy Action Day continues dialogue with gov’t on important issues

December 4, 2014

The fifth annual Epilepsy Action Day at Queen’s Park on Dec. 1 was successful in its mission of engaging MPPs in the important issues facing people with seizure disorders, says Epilepsy Ontario executive director Rozalyn Werner-Arcé. During the event there were three areas that representatives from Epilepsy Ontario and seven other epilepsy support agencies across…

Online toolkit designed to help employers of people with epilepsy

October 30, 2014

A first-of-its-kind online toolkit is now available to provide training and resources to companies and organizations that have employees with epilepsy. Developed by Epilepsy Toronto, the epilepsy@work toolkit was recently launched.  It was developed with the support of the Government of Ontario, Epilepsy Ontario and CIBC. The goal of the resource is to help those…