WORD Day Hub

The biggest date in the calendar for raising awareness of Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) and other childhood rheumatic conditions is 18 March - WORD Day (World yOung Rheumatic Diseases day). 

Join us to help raise awareness that children get arthritis. The aim of WORD Day is to spread the word that young people get rheumatic diseases too, with the goal of encouraging early diagnosis of rheumatic diseases which can make a big difference to outcomes for children. This is a goal that we are passionate about at Juvenile Arthritis Research. We know the huge difference that increased awareness can make. Our #ThinkJIA campaign shares this goal so raising awareness is something we can all do all year round and not just on WORD Day. 

We have created loads of resources sharing important messages on this theme. You can help us by sharing these images and messages on social media. Below you'll find some step by step instructions.  

Step 1:

If you have access to a printer, print out one of our "I'm not too young for JIA" posters and share a picture of you/your child holding the poster. 

Tag us on our social channels (we can only see public profiles) or email your photo to us at kipo@jarproject.org and we'll try to share as many as we can on and around WORD Day. You can use any of the following hashtags to help raise awareness: 

#ThinkJIA

#AwarenessIsEverything

#WORDday2024

Siblings can get involved too - just print the relevant poster for them. We've also included a blank template you can print and write your own message to help raise awareness that children get arthritis too.