November 3-9, 2024 is National Pain Awareness Week, a time to raise awareness of chronic pain, it’s impacts, and how implementing An Action Plan for Pain in Canada can improve equitable access to timely and evidence-based care and support for all people with pain. The plan lays out numerous recommendations for targeted actions necessary to improve outcomes for the nearly eight million Canadians living with chronic pain and to reduce pain’s impact on families, communities, and society.
Please join us to create dialogue and draw attention to chronic pain this National Pain Awareness Week by using these social media tools, and by adding your voice to the conversation using the #NPAW2024 hashtag.
This campaign is created and in collaboration with Pain Canada’s partners.
This program receives funding from Health Canada. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the views of Health Canada.
Participating is easy! We’ve created the following toolkit to help you join the National Pain Awareness Week conversation. It includes suggested social media posts on a wide range of topics related to chronic pain, as well as supporting graphics that you can share. Please be sure to use the campaign hashtag in your posts to build momentum and help others follow along: #NPAW2024. To access these tools in French, click here.
National Pain Awareness Week is an annual initiative aimed at raising public awareness of chronic pain and its impacts. Each National Pain Awareness Week, Pain Canada and our partners coordinate a national social media campaign that amplifies diverse voices, calls for collective action, and champions the rights of people living with chronic pain to live the best possible life, free from stigma and discrimination.