The first opportunity is to join our You’re the Cure network.  With a simple click of a button you can be an advocate dedicated to finding a cure for heart disease and stroke.  You’re the Cure when you speak up for vital research funding or legislation to fight childhood obesity.  Together, You’re the Cure advocates have succeeded in creating smoke-free communities, placing AEDs in public places, securing funding for medical research, and more through policy change.  Click on the  Join today link now because you truly don’t have to be a doctor to save lives … just an advocate willing to contact lawmakers on important heart and stroke policy issues.  We’ll make it easy for you to email, fax, and phone or even visit your legislators.  And we’ll keep you informed on the progress you’re making as one of the very important voices for the cure.

The second opportunity is to help increase the interest  in the American Heart Association’s Go Red For Women® movement by participating in our annual National Wear Red Day® on Friday, February 3, 2012.  On that day hundreds of thousands of women and men remember the women who lost their lives to heart disease and pledge to fight this No. 1 killer of women.  We have launched the new Wear Red Day web site to provide supporters like you the valuable information to help you raise awareness of the issue of women and heart disease.  The new web site provides many free downloadable promotional materials including flyers, posters, heart health information and instructions on how to organize your own National Wear Red Day event at your company, church, club or organization. Sign up for your FREE Wear Red Day Materials by clicking on the Wear Red Day web site link now.  Here you will find all the information you need to get started on your Wear Red Day Campaign.

The third opportunity is to help the American Heart Association promote the Life’s Simple 7, seven simple steps to live better. You and those you care about can get healthy - and you can start right now with Life’s Simple 7 and the My Life Check Assessment.  These free online tools can help individuals to privately evaluate their heart health and learn more about seven risk factors for heart disease.   All results are private and individual. Click on the My Life Check Assessment  now to get more information, take the assessment and encourage others to follow your lead by sharing the link with 5 friends, neighbors colleagues and family members.