This guide walks through what Pages of Purple and EAWCP can offer your building: staff training, classroom education for students, help with care planning, and materials to send home with families.
Why it matters in a school: 1 in 26 people in the United States will develop epilepsy at some point in their lifetime, and about 456,000 U.S. children are living with epilepsy right now. In a building your size, that is rarely zero students.
Pages of Purple was founded by a student who was diagnosed with epilepsy as a toddler and was handed a stuffed Seizure Bear by a nurse during her first hospital stay, so everything here is built around how a kid actually experiences a diagnosis. Read Brooke's story.
Pick the level of support that fits your building, your students, and your schedule. Any one of these works on its own.
EAWCP presentations help your team understand epilepsy, recognize a seizure, respond calmly, and feel confident giving seizure first aid.
Bring age-appropriate awareness into the classroom with Room for Friends, a read-and-discuss lesson, and hands-on activities for elementary students.
Use our materials to open conversations about what a student needs day to day, from seizure action plans to accommodations.
Send trusted epilepsy education home with families, and connect them to wider support through EAWCP.
You might need a quick staff refresher, a classroom presentation, printed resources for a family, or a longer planning conversation. Tell us which, and we will point you to the right option.
One bear comforted one three-year-old, and she never forgot it. Pick a way to pass that on, and another child finds out they are not alone.