ADHD AWARENESS MONTH
Every year October is ADHD Awareness Month across the World in many countries, and this webpage celebrates activities by our member organisations who celebrate with special events during the month. More European specific event can be found information here. Do take a look at each years theme below.
ADHD Awareness Month’s goal is to provide reliable information and resources to help people move forward with ADHD. Although the month of October is designated as ADHD Awareness Month, learning and sharing information about ADHD is beneficial all year long!
October 2024
The 2024 ADHD Awareness Month theme is “Awareness is Key”. ADHD Europe collaborate with global coalitions who are dedicated to combatting the stigma of ADHD and setting the record straight on what ADHD is by running online campaigns around each year’s theme with the shared global goal of dissemination of reliable information about ADHD and its treatments.
Expert Patient Organisations
It is with support ADHD Europe members partners and colloborators that we join forces to bring information to the public with various activities.
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Tallin, Estonia
Eesti ATH Liit “ADHD Estonia”
Email: info@athliit.ee
Website: www.athliit.ee
Location: Tallin, Estonia
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Greece, Athens
ADHD Hellas
Email: info@adhdhellas.org / adhdhellas@outlook.com.
Website: www.adhdhellas.org
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Hungary, Cegléd
ADHD Public Benefit Non Profit National Association
Email: ahajdu2002@yahoo.de
Website: www.alterkozpont.hu
Location: Szolnok, Hungary
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Cyprus
ADD-ADHD Cyprus
Telephone: +357-99651995
Email: info@add-adhd.org.cy
Website: https://add-adhd.org.cy
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Italy, Rignano Flaminio
A.I.F.A. Onlus – Associazione Italiana Famiglie ADHD
Email:vicepresidenza@associazioneaifa.it
Website: www.aifaonlus.it
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Netherlands, Nijkerk
Impuls & Woortblind
Email: julie.houben@impulsenwoortblind.nl or robpereiraR@gmail.com
Website: www.impulsenwoortblind.nl
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Spain, Barcelonia
Fundacion Adana
Email: info@fundacionadana.org / irubio@fundacionadana.org
Website: www.fundacionadana.org
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Spain
Federico Española de Asociaciones de Ayuda al Déficit de Atención e Hiperactividad (FEAADAH)
Email: directiva@feaadah.org
Website: www.feaadah.org/es/
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United Kingdom, London
ADDISS – ADHD Information Services
Email: info@addiss.co.uk
Website: http://addiss.co.uk
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United Kingdom, Scotland
Dundee & Angus ADHD Support Group
Email: ac@adhddasupport.org
Website: www.adhddasupport.org
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ADHD Foundation
Awareness Month Coalition Team
Comprising of ADDA, ACO, CHADD, CADDAC and ADHD Europe. It is with support ADHD Europe members partners and colloborators that we join forces to bring information to the public with various activities.
October 2023
The 2023 ADHD Awareness Month theme in the United States is “Moving Forward with ADHD” and in Europe we are celebrating ”A Good Life with ADHD”
No two people with ADHD are alike. In addition to viewers’ videos sharing their ADHD experiences, we will post short videos with ADHD experts talking about the commonalities that they see in people’s experience
Internationally known ADHD Experts answered questions about: Diagnosis & Treatment, ADHD Parenting, Adults with ADHD, ADHD relationships and communication
No two people with ADHD are alike. In addition to viewers’ videos sharing their ADHD experiences, we will post short videos with ADHD experts talking about the commonalities that they see in people’s experience.
Have you ever been told “Oh, ADHD doesn’t exist” or “Children just grow out of it”? Whilst we know these claims aren’t true, it can be difficult to immediately bring to mind the science that corresponds with reality. We’ve worked with world-leading ADHD experts and the ADHD Awareness Month coalition to bust 10 common myths about the condition, citing the science and respected studies. Our members also organised their own events on our common theme, and helped us to translate these myths into a number of European languages.
People with disabilities should have the equal rights to achieve their full potential, and for this to happen, employers need to improve their awareness of ADHD and put the appropriate mechanisms in place to support their employees. To find out more read our declaration, available below in 8 languages.
Highlight the need for a better understanding of how ADHD presents in girls and women so that those who are still left undiagnosed across Europe – and indeed the World – receive the specialist care they need in future.
TRANSITIONAL SERVICES FOR YOUNG ADULTS
RECENT STUDIES HAVE FOUND A SHORTAGE OF TRANSITIONAL SERVICES FOR YOUNG ADULTS (18+) WITH ADHD ACROSS EUROPE
Our children for whom we advocated 10 years ago (Green Paper, 2006) are now young adults, and the services that we pleaded for throughout the intervening years have on the whole improved for this age group. However, ADHD Europe members now find that there are a lot of difficulties for young adults (18+) when the services that were available for them as children and adolescents are no longer available to them once they reach 17-18 years of age, a critical time in their further development when they are still in education and training.