Mark your calendars! March is Epilepsy Awareness Month and Purple Day is March 26th, a day dedicated to increasing awareness about epilepsy around the world.

Epilepsy Awareness Month is all about bringing epilepsy awareness to your community. How can you get involved? Here are some ideas: wear purple to show your support, fundraise for your local epilepsy organization, or start a discussion with others around you to help educate them about epilepsy. See below for some more ideas about how you can get involved.

Bring Purple Day to Your School

Epilepsy Awareness Month is all about spreading awareness and educating others about epilepsy to help end the stigma surrounding the condition. What better way to celebrate than by helping educate your children’s peers about epilepsy?Epilepsy Toronto’s Children and Youth Services Department have developed a full lesson plan, including an educational video and learning activities, that your child can bring to their classroom for Purple Day on March 26th. All you have to do is contact your child’s educator and provide them with the digital resources.

Public School Classroom Kit

Catholic School Classroom Kit

Email Your Teacher: Purple Day Classroom Kit Email Template for Parents

And we can come to you! Epilepsy Toronto and Teaching Awareness Through Puppetry provide fun, age-appropriate presentations about all things epilepsy for your child’s school or classroom. All you have to do is complete a presentation request form below:

• Epilepsy Toronto Presentation Request Form 
• Teaching Awareness Through Puppetry Presentation Request Form

You Can Make a Difference

Epilepsy awareness starts with you. Here are a few resources you can share with your networks either through social media, your workplace, or in your community.

Purple Day Poster 

Videos About Epilepsy & Seizure First Aid

Epilepsy Fact Sheet

Downloadable Resources

Epilepsy Myths with Mike

See the Person Videos

Ways to Donate

March Awareness Campaign #EndEpilepsyStigma

This Epilepsy Awareness Month, we’re excited to kick off a city-wide campaign in collaboration with Outedge Media to raise awareness and combat epilepsy stigma.

Stay on the lookout for our ads on billboards and digital spaces throughout Toronto! If you come across one, snap a photo, tag us on social media @epilepsytoronto, and use the hashtag #EndEpilepsyStigma to join the conversation and help spread awareness.

For more information about this campaign and inspiring stories of resilience in the face of epilepsy, visit: epilepsytoronto.org/endepilepsystigma/ Together, let’s work towards ending the stigma surrounding epilepsy.

Show Us Your Purple Day Plans

• Wearing purple;
• Sharing epilepsy resources at your workplace;
• Making Purple Day signs and decorating your windows or front door;
• Fundraising by selling purple cupcakes, jewelry, artwork or some other purple creation, or;
• Making or sharing an educational video on your social media.

Look up, Toronto! Once again, the CN Tower will be shining bright in PURPLE on March 26 to mark Purple Day for Epilepsy! It’s one more way we’re raising awareness and showing support for everyone living with epilepsy in our city. The lighting will begin at sunset, and will be fully visible once the sky fully darkens, approximately 30 minutes later. Check out their webcam at: https://www.cntower.ca/live-views (a standard light show will run for 5 minutes at the top of every hour and on the half hour. Otherwise, it will be PURPLE!)

Don’t miss this incredible opportunity Share your photos using the hashtag #PurpleDayTO and help us spread awareness far and wide.