The Hoover-based Epilepsy Foundation Alabama plans to clasp its 2022 Walk to End Epilepsy astatine Railroad Park successful Birmingham connected Saturday, Nov. 5.
Registration for the 1-mile locomotion is scheduled to statesman astatine 10 a.m., and a abbreviated programme earlier the locomotion volition commencement astatine 11 a.m., said Sara Franklin, a determination manager for the Epilepsy Foundation.
It’s escaped to enactment successful the walk, but organizers inquire participants to find radical and/or companies who volition sponsor them with donations.
The Epilepsy Foundation uses proceeds to rise consciousness astir epilepsy, money probe and grooming programs connected seizure designation and archetypal aid, and to amended entree to specialty and supportive attraction for radical with epilepsy.
Last year’s Birmingham locomotion drew astir 800 radical and raised astir $130,000, including firm sponsorships, Franklin said. This year’s extremity is $75,000, she said.
This year’s locomotion besides volition beryllium utilized arsenic a clip to observe the Seizure Safe Schools Act, which was passed by the Alabama Legislature and signed by Gov. Kay Ivey successful the outpouring of 2021 and went into effect this schoolhouse year.
The enactment allows non-medical schoolhouse unit who are trained to administer nasal anti-seizure medicine to bash truthful successful exigency situations erstwhile a schoolhouse caregiver is not connected campus. The enactment was akin to authorities that passed a fewer years ago, allowing trained unit to administer epinephrine and insulin to students astatine schoolhouse during emergencies, Franklin said.
There are astir 7,500 students with epilepsy successful Alabama schools, and this caller authorities could assistance prevention their lives successful the lawsuit of a terrible epileptic seizure, Franklin said.
To motion up for the 2022 Birmingham Walk to End Epilepsy oregon for much information, spell to walktoendepilepsy.org/Birmingham.
Walk to End Epilepsy
WHERE: Railroad Park
WHEN: Saturday, Nov. 5, 10 a.m.
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