2nd National PTSD Awareness Day 2009

PTSD Day walk

2009 PTSD Day walk, Canberra

Picking Up The Peaces celebrated the 2nd National Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Awareness Day at Lake Burley Griffin, Canberra, on Saturday October 10th, to help stomp out the stigma of PTSD.

Below is the agenda. There’s a brief awareness day report here.

The committee is currently evaluating the event and drawing up a template for future PTSD awareness days. If you have anything to contribute, please contact us at info@pickingupthepeaces.org.au

National PTSD Awareness Day was officially declared and supported by the Federal and ACT Governments in 2008, after a campaign by Picking Up The Peaces. It has now been cemented into the National Mental Health Week program.

Our first PTSD Awareness Day walk attracted more than 500 walkers, and was opened by the ACT Minister for Police and Emergency Services, Simon Corbell, and the Australian Minister for Veterans’ Affairs, Alan Griffin. That number doubled in 2009.

Poster for the 2009 PTSD Awareness Day