Some observances last a whole week. Browse awareness weeks through the year and learn how to take part.
Catholic Schools Week
Jan 31 – Feb 6
Catholic Schools Week begins the last Sunday of January each year. Learn its 1974 origin, the 2027 theme and what NCEA data…
National CRNA Week
Jan 17–23
National CRNA Week comes each January. Learn who started it in 2000, how nurses became the first anesthesia providers and what the…
Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
Jan 18–25
The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity runs January 18–25 each year. See its 1908 origin, why it spans two feasts and…
National Eating Disorders Awareness Week
Feb 22–28
National Eating Disorders Awareness Week comes each February. Learn its 1984 origin, what the research shows and how to help someone get…
National Burn Awareness Week
Feb 7–13
National Burn Awareness Week comes each February. Learn who runs it, what burn data show about homes and workplaces, and simple ways…
National School Counseling Week
Feb 1–5
National School Counseling Week comes each February. Learn who runs it, why ratios matter and simple ways to thank your school counselor.
World Interfaith Harmony Week
Feb 1–7
World Interfaith Harmony Week is February 1–7 each year. See how Jordan's proposal became a UN observance in 2010 and ideas for…
Children of Alcoholics Week
Feb 14–20
Children of Alcoholics Week comes each February. Learn who leads it, how many kids live with a parent's substance use and what…
Engineers Week
Feb 21–27
Engineers Week comes each February. Learn why it honors George Washington, how it began in 1951 and how volunteers bring engineering to…
National FFA Week
Feb 20–27
National FFA Week comes each February. Learn why it falls on Washington's birthday week, how it began in 1948 and what more…
National Poison Prevention Week
Mar 21–27
National Poison Prevention Week comes each March. See its 1961 law, how child poisoning deaths fell and the Poison Help number to…
Brain Awareness Week
Mar 15–21
Brain Awareness Week comes each March. Learn who started it in 1996, how it grew to 82 countries and simple ways to…
Patient Safety Awareness Week
Mar 14–20
Patient Safety Awareness Week comes each March. Learn who started it in 2002, how IHI leads it today and practical steps patients…
Sleep Awareness Week
Mar 14–20
Sleep Awareness Week begins each March with daylight saving time. Learn its 1998 origin, the Sleep in America poll and NSF's sleep…
National School Breakfast Week
Mar 1–5
National School Breakfast Week comes each March. Learn who started it in 1989, how the School Breakfast Program grew from a pilot…
National Groundwater Awareness Week
Mar 7–13
National Groundwater Awareness Week comes each March. Learn who started it in 1999, how many Americans drink groundwater and how to care…
Sunshine Week
Mar 14–20
Sunshine Week comes each March around March 16. See how a Florida effort became a national week in 2005 and how anyone…
National Apprenticeship Week
Apr 25 – May 1
National Apprenticeship Week moved to spring in 2026. Learn the new dates, how the Department of Labor runs it and what the…
National Work Zone Awareness Week
Apr 19–23
National Work Zone Awareness Week comes each April. Learn its Virginia roots, the national kickoff tradition and how drivers can keep crews…
National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week
Apr 11–17
National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week comes each April. Learn how a forgotten lunch and a cake started it in 1981, and how…
National Public Health Week
Apr 5–11
National Public Health Week comes each April. Learn how President Clinton proclaimed it in 1995, what APHA does today and how communities…
World Immunization Week
Apr 24–30
World Immunization Week is April 24–30 each year. Learn WHO's theme, what the latest coverage data show and how to check your…
National Safe Boating Week
May 22–28
National Safe Boating Week kicks off boating season each May. Learn who runs it, what Coast Guard data show about drownings and…
EMS Week
May 16–22
EMS Week comes each May. Learn how President Ford started it in 1974, what each daily theme covers and how communities thank…
Teacher Appreciation Week
May 3–7
Teacher Appreciation Week comes each May, with National Teacher Day on Tuesday. Learn its murky origins, the 1984 PTA move and simple…
National Nurses Week
May 6–12
National Nurses Week is May 6–12 each year. See how it grew from a 1954 idea, why it ends on Nightingale's birthday…
National Police Week
May 9–15
National Police Week comes each May, around Peace Officers Memorial Day. See its 1962 origin, the Candlelight Vigil and how many names…
National Mosquito Control Awareness Week
Jun 20–26
National Mosquito Control Awareness Week arrives each June. Learn its roots in a 1997 AMCA resolution, the diseases at stake and how…
Men’s Health Week
Jun 14–20
Men's Health Week leads up to Father's Day each June. See how a 1994 law started it, what the life expectancy gap…
National Garden Week
Jun 6–12
National Garden Week fills the first full week of June. See how garden clubs lobbied Congress, how it moved from April and…
National CPR and AED Awareness Week
Jun 1–7
CPR and AED Awareness Week is June 1–7 each year. See how it began, what the cardiac arrest numbers say and how…
National Pollinator Week
Jun 21–27
National Pollinator Week lands in late June each year. Learn how the Senate first named it, what pollinators do for our food…
Pretrial, Probation and Parole Supervision Week
Jul 18–24
Pretrial, Probation and Parole Supervision Week comes each July. See how a 1999 push by APPA spread to every state and what…
National Zookeeper Week
Jul 18–24
National Zookeeper Week begins the third Sunday of July. See how AAZK launched it in 2007, what the job takes and how…
Captive Nations Week
Jul 18–24
Captive Nations Week is proclaimed each July under a 1959 law. See how it began, why Khrushchev objected and how recent presidents…
National Moth Week
Jul 17–25
National Moth Week fills nine summer nights each July. See how a New Jersey group started it in 2012, why moths matter…
National Farmers Market Week
Aug 1–7
National Farmers Market Week fills the first full week of August. Learn how USDA began it, what markets mean for farmers and…
National Clown Week
Aug 1–7
National Clown Week is August 1–7 each year. See how clown clubs won a presidential proclamation and how clowns still spend the…
World Breastfeeding Week
Aug 1–7
World Breastfeeding Week is August 1–7 each year. See how it grew from a 1990 declaration, where rates stand today and practical…
National Health Center Week
Aug 8–14
National Health Center Week is held each August. See how two 1965 clinics grew into a network serving over 52 million people,…
International Week of Deaf People
Sep 20–26
International Week of Deaf People fills the last full week of September. See how the World Federation of the Deaf began it…
Child Passenger Safety Week
Sep 19–25
Child Passenger Safety Week ends with National Seat Check Saturday each September. Learn what NHTSA's numbers show and how to get a…
National Farm Safety and Health Week
Sep 19–25
National Farm Safety and Health Week comes each September at harvest time. See how it began in 1944, what the daily topics…
National Truck Driver Appreciation Week
Sep 12–18
National Truck Driver Appreciation Week comes each September. See how ATA launched it in 1988, how much freight drivers move and easy…
National Arts in Education Week
Sep 12–18
National Arts in Education Week begins the second Sunday of September. See how a 2010 resolution started it, what the research shows…
National Payroll Week
Sep 6–10
National Payroll Week lands on Labor Day week each September. See how it began in 1996, why payroll funds most federal revenue…
Mental Illness Awareness Week
Oct 3–9
Mental Illness Awareness Week fills the first full week of October. See how it began in 1990, how common mental illness is…
National School Bus Safety Week
Oct 18–22
National School Bus Safety Week comes each October. Learn how the poster contest sets the theme, what the crash data show and…
National Chemistry Week
Oct 17–23
National Chemistry Week comes each October from the American Chemical Society. See how long it has run, the latest theme and simple…
Earth Science Week
Oct 10–16
Earth Science Week fills the second full week of October. See how AGI launched it in 1998, how many people it reaches…
World Space Week
Oct 4–10
World Space Week is October 4–10 each year. See how Sputnik and the Outer Space Treaty set its dates and how to…
Fire Prevention Week
Oct 3–9
Fire Prevention Week falls in the week of October 9 each year. See how it grew from the Great Chicago Fire and…
Red Ribbon Week
Oct 23–31
Red Ribbon Week is October 23–31 each year. See how a fallen DEA agent inspired it, how it became national in 1988…
National Farm-City Week
Nov 20–26
National Farm-City Week ends on Thanksgiving Day each year. See how a train conversation started it in 1955 and what today's farm…
American Education Week
Nov 16–20
American Education Week comes every November, the week before Thanksgiving week. Learn why the NEA and the American Legion started it in…
National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week
Nov 15–21
National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week comes the week before Thanksgiving. Learn how Villanova students began it and what HUD and USDA…
Geography Awareness Week
Nov 15–21
Geography Awareness Week comes every November. See the dates, how a balloon launch and Public Law 100-78 started it, and free mapping…
National Nurse Practitioner Week
Nov 8–14
National Nurse Practitioner Week comes every November. Learn the dates, how Loretta Ford and Henry Silver created the NP role and how…
Drowsy Driving Prevention Week
Nov 7–13
Drowsy Driving Prevention Week is held every November. Learn who runs it, what NHTSA's crash numbers show and the warning signs of…
International Week of Science and Peace
Nov 9–15
The International Week of Science and Peace falls in the week of November 11 each year. Learn its 1986 roots, the 1988…
World AMR Awareness Week
Nov 18–24
World AMR Awareness Week is November 18–24 each year. See why WHO started it, how CDC's antibiotics week fits in and simple…
National Influenza Vaccination Week
Dec 7–11
National Influenza Vaccination Week comes each December. Learn why CDC started it in 2005, who should get a flu shot and what…
National Handwashing Awareness Week
Dec 6–12
National Handwashing Awareness Week comes each December. Learn who started it, the four principles of hand awareness and how much clean hands…
Computer Science Education Week
Dec 7–13
Computer Science Education Week falls each December around Grace Hopper's birthday. Learn its 2009 origin, the Hour of Code and ways classes…
Human Rights Week
Dec 10–16
Human Rights Week begins on December 10 each year. See how it links the 1948 Universal Declaration with the Bill of Rights,…