Access Video On Demand provides countless ideas for community programming, including titles that help spread awareness about suicide prevention, breast cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, and AIDS. Subscribers can also explore the complete calendar (accessible via the menu in the top left of header) for the year’s milestones, holidays, and events—a great source for programming ideas throughout the year.
National Suicide Prevention Week, September 8, 2019
Consider these titles for programming/patron interest:
- There’s Always Help: Suicide Prevention (Item #155258)
- Understanding Youth Suicide: A Guide for Teachers (Item #129318)
- Prescription: Suicide? (Item #43377)
- With and Without You: A Father’s Suicide, a Family’s Journey (Item #40079)
- TEDTalks: Nancy Lublin—Texting That Saves Lives (Item #52978)
- These Days: A Short Film on Youth Suicide (Item #56489)
- After “Suicide Cluster” in Palo Alto (Item #116613)
October Is Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Consider these titles for programming/patron interest:
- Understanding Triple Negative Breast Cancer (Item #47955)
- The Misdiagnosis of Breast Cancer (Item #54395)
- Promising Breast Cancer Treatment Averts “Collateral Damage” to Healthy Cells (Item #58021)
- Breast Cancer in Young Women: Second Opinion—Taking Charge of Your Health Care (Item #55320)
- Pink Ribbons, Inc. (Item #66034)
- Mammography: Second Opinion—Taking Charge of Your Health Care (Item #55311)
- Mondays at Racine (Item #115021)
November Is Alzheimer’s Awareness Month
Consider these titles for programming/patron interest:
- Curing Alzheimer’s (Item #124885)
- Can Alzheimer’s Be Stopped? (Item #169124)
- Preventing Dementia (Item #117838)
- Halting Dementia (Item #94804)
- Advances in Alzheimer’s Treatment—Second Opinion (Item #185197)
- Alzheimer’s: Every Minute Counts (Item #151137)
- Alzheimer’s: Can We Prevent It?—Catalyst (Item #128539)
World AIDS Day, December 1, 2019
Consider these titles for programming/patron interest:
- The Truth about HIV (Item #145458)
- AIDS in Africa: Why? A Swaziland Case Study (Item #128785)
- Kai Jia: AIDS in a Chinese Village—China from Within (Item #52868)
- AIDS Warriors: Confronting Africa’s Health Crisis (Item #36133)
- Why Miami Is the Epicenter of New HIV Cases in the U.S. (6/14/18) (Item #162888)
- Isolation and Stigma Sustain HIV in the South: “It’s Like We’re on a Deserted Island” (6/16/18) (Item #162889)
- Out of Control: AIDS in Black America (Item #36406)
