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#EpilepsyAwareness: Community’s role in empowering persons with epilepsy

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Communities can promote the health, well-being, and social participation of people with epilepsy. Supportive communities (which may be towns, cities, counties, tribal areas, or similar) have many components, such as schools and day care facilities, housing units, health care facilities, business and industry settings; and community-based programs, coalitions, and organizations, can people with Epilepsy can also readily benefit from.

Community leaders, and the community in general, can strive to develop and promote lasting strategies that support people with epilepsy where they live, learn, work, play, and worship. They can do so by:

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