May is Ichthyosis Awareness Month

FIRST celebrates Ichthyosis Awareness Month (IAM) during the month of May each year.  Members and families join together and organize special events, sales and online awareness efforts to educate the community and generate awareness with neighbors and friends.  These events can be simple awareness campaigns, like sharing a personal story of ichthyosis on a blog, mentioning FIRST on facebook, distributing pamphlets to friends or handing them out at local retailers – all in an effort to educate people about ichthyosis. From a bake sale to an exquisite gala, large or small scale fundraising efforts can also help to raise awareness as well funds for the FIRST organization and the important research they support.