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May

Discovering Random Acts of Kindness during Food Allergy Awareness Month

April 30, 2024  |  Adults, Advocacy, Allergies, Allergy, Allergy-Awareness, Anaphylaxis, Asthma, Awareness, Behavior, Bullying, Caregivers, Children, Civil-Rights, College, Compassion, DEI, Education, Emotional, Empathy, Epinephrine, Equity, FAACT, FAAM, FAAW, Feelings, Field-Trips, Food, Food-Allergies, Food-Allergy, Food-Allergy-Awareness-Month, Food-allergy-blog, FoodAllergyAwarenessWeek, Friends, Friendship, Giving, Grateful, Gratitude, Heart, High-School, Inclusion, Know-The-FAACTs, Mental-Health-Awareness-Month, Mothers-Day, MothersDay, Parent, Patient, Preparedness, Programs, Resources, School, School-Resources, Self-Care, Student, Summer, Support, Teal, Teal-Love, Teal-Moments, Teal-Voices, Teens, Traditions, Tweens

by Caroline Moassessi, FAACT Vice President of Community Relations Creating a better world for people living with food allergies is something we all do every day. Every action matters, whether it’s reading a label

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Valentine

12 Ways To Celebrate Safely for Valentine’s Day

February 1, 2024  |  Adolescents, Adults, Advocacy, Allergies, Allergy, Allergy-Awareness, Anaphylaxis, Asthma, Awareness, Baking, Blog, Candy, Caregivers, Celebrations, Children, Cooking, Dating, Eating, Education, Elementary, Empathy, Epinephrine, FAACT, FAACTs-TEAL-Heart, Family, Feelings, Food, Food-Allergies, Food-Allergy, Food-allergy-blog, Friends, Friendship, Giving, Grandparent, Grateful, Gratitude, Heart, Holiday, Holidays, Inclusion, Know-The-FAACTs, Label, Mom, Mother, Parent, Pinterest, Readlabels, Resilience, Safety-Tips, Self-care, Student, Support, Teal, Teal-Love, Teal-Moments, Teal-Voices, Teens, Tips, Top9, Traditions, Tweens, Valentine, Valentines-Day

by Caroline Moassessi, FAACT’s Vice President of Community Relations February is the month of love! Valentine’s Day reminds us to share our appreciation and affection for family, friends, classmates, and community.

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Holiday

Top Holiday Tips for Making Fun and Safe Memories

December 1, 2023  |  10Years, Adults, Allergies, Allergy, Allergy-FreeRecipes, Anaphylaxis, Anaphylaxis-Action-Plan, Asthma, Awareness, Baking, Behavioral-Health, Blog, Catered-events, Celebrations, Checklists, Children, Christmas, Civil-Rights, Cooking, Dining-Out, Eating, Education, Epinephrine, FAACT, FAACT10Years, Family, Food, Food-Allergies, Food-Allergy, Food-allergy-blog, Friendship, Giving, Grandparent, Grateful, Gratitude, Hanukkah, Holiday, Holiday-Tips, Holidays, Know-The-FAACTs, Medication, Mental-Health, Nonprofit, Readlabels, Resilience, Resources, Restaurant, Safety-Tips, Self-Care, Support, Teal, Teal-Love, Teal-Moments, Tips, Top9, Traditions, Travel, Vacation

by Caroline Moassessi, FAACT’s Vice President of Community Relations Enjoy the season and time with your family and friends this year with savvy strategies and tools. FAACT curated our top tips and links to our best

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Holiday

Holiday Cheer with Less Stress

November 1, 2023  |  Adolescents, Adults, Advocacy, Allergy, Allergy-Awareness, Allergy-FreeRecipes, Anaphylaxis, Awareness, Behavior, Behavioral-Health, Blog, Caregivers, Celebrations, Checklists, Children, Christmas, Compassion, Cooking, DEI, Dining-out, Diversity, Education, Empathy, Epinephrine, Equity, FAACT, Family, Food, Food-Allergies, Food-Allergy, Food-allergy-blog, Friends, Giving, Grandparent, Grateful, Gratitude, Hanukkah, Holiday, Holiday-Tips, Holidays, Know-The-FAACTs, Label, Medication, Parent, Patient, Pinterest, Preparedness, Readlabels, Resilience, Resources, Safety-Tips, Self-care, Support, Thanksgiving, Traditions, Travel, Traveling

by Caroline Moassessi, FAACT’s Vice President of Community Relations The holidays are a time when families and friends gather, but there can be an underlying layer of stress surrounding food allergies and family

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Blog

Summertime Is Teaching Time

July 1, 2023  |  Action-plan, Adolescents, Adults, Advocacy, Allergies, Allergy, Allergy-Awareness, Allergy-FreeRecipes, Anaphylaxis, Anaphylaxis-Action-Plan, Asthma, Awareness, Back-To-School, Baking, Behavior, Behavioral-Health, Blog, Board-certified-allergist, Bullying, Camp, Camp-TAG, CampTAG, Candy, Caregivers, Catered-events, Celebrations, Checklists, Children, Civil-Rights, Compassion, Cooking, Dining-Out, Diversity, Eating, Elementary, Emergency, Emotional, Emotions, Empathy, Epinephrine, Equity, FAACT, Family, Feelings, Field-Trips, Food, Food-Allergies, Food-Allergy, Food-allergy-blog, FoodService, Friends, Friendship, Giving, Grandparent, Grateful, Gratitude, High-School, Holiday, Holiday-Tips, Holidays, Inclusion, Know-The-FAACTs, Label, Nutrition, Parent, Pinterest, Preparedness, Readlabels, Recipes, Resources, Restaurant, Safety-Tips, School, School-Lunch, School-Resources, Secondary, Self-Care, Student, Support, Teal, Teal-Love, Teal-Moments, Teal-Voices, Teens, Tips, Top9, Traditions, Traveling, Vacation

by Caroline Moassessi, FAACT Vice President of Community Relations Thank goodness for summer. Picnics, friends, BBQs, and most of all, a break from school! But that doesn’t mean we need to take a break from

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Teal

FAACT’s 10 Years of Teal Voices Anniversary

May 3, 2023  |  10Years, Adolescents, Adults, Advocacy, Allergies, Allergy, Allergy-Awareness, Awareness, Behavior, Behavioral-Health, Blog, Camp, Camp-TAG, Campaign, CampTAG, Caregivers, Celebrations, Celiac-Disease, Children, Civil-Rights, Compassion, DBV-Technologies, DEI, Dining-Out, Diversity, Dorm, Dorm Life, Early-Intro, Eating, Education, Egg, EGID, Elementary, Emotional, Emotions, Empathy, EoE, Eosinophil, Eosinophil-Awareness, Epinephrine, Equity, FAACT, FAACT10Years, FAACTs-Teal-Ghost, FAAM, FAAW, Family, Feelings, Field-Trips, Fish, Food, Food-Allergies, Food-Allergy, Food-Allergy-Awareness-Month, Food-allergy-blog, FoodAllergyAwarenessWeek, FoodService, Friends, Friendship, Giving, Gluten-Free, Graduation, Grandparent, Grateful, Gratitude, Guidelines, Halloween, Healthcare, Heart, High-School, Holiday, Holiday-Tips, Inclusion, Know-The-FAACTs, Label, Medic-Alert, Medical-Alert-ID, Medical-ID, Medical-Singles, Medication, Mental-Health, Mental-Health-Awareness-Month, Milk, Mom, Mother, National-Peanut-Board, Nonprofit, NPB, Nurses, Nutrition, Parent, Patient, Peanut, Pediatrician, Pinterest, Preparedness, Programs, Psych, Readlabels, Registered-Dietitians, Research, Resilience, Resources, Restaurant, Rights, Risk-taking, Roommates, Safety-Tips, School, School-Nurse, School-Resources, Secondary, Self-Care, Sesame, Shellfish, Soy, Student, Summer-Camp, Support, Support-Group, Teal, Teal-Love, Teal-Moments, Teal-Voices, Teens, Tips, Top9, Traditions, Travel, Traveling, Tree-Nuts, University, Vitality-Bowls, Wheat, Workforce

FAACT’s 10 Years of Teal Voices Anniversary The heart of the 32 million Americans in thefood allergy community by Eleanor Garrow-Holding, FAACT President & CEO For years I had been a food allergy mom, a volunteer,

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Blog

Holiday Tips from FAACT

December 1, 2022  |  Adolescents, Adults, Advocacy, Allergies, Allergy, Allergy-Awareness, Allergy-FreeRecipes, Anaphylaxis, Anaphylaxis-Action-Plan, Awareness, Baking, Blog, Celebrations, Christmas, Dining-Out, Diversity, Emergency, Epinephrine, Equity, FAACT, Family, Food, Food-Allergies, Food-Allergy, Food-allergy-blog, Friends, Friendship, Giving, Grandparent, Gratitude, Hanukkah, Holiday, Holiday-Tips, Holidays, Inclusion, Know-The-FAACTs, Label, Medic-Alert, Medical-Alert-ID, Medication, Mental-Health, Parent, Patient, Pinterest, Preparedness, Readlabels, Recipes, Resilience, Resources, Safety-Tips, Self-care, Support, Teens, Tips, Traditions, Travel, Traveling, Vacation

by Caroline Moassessi, FAACT’s Vice President of Community Relations The holidays are here! Whether you are celebrating with friends or enjoying time off from work and school, food allergies never take a break. A

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Holidays

Navigating the Holidays and Food Allergies

November 1, 2022  |  Adolescents, Adults, Advocacy, Allergies, Allergy, Allergy-Awareness, Allergy-FreeRecipes, Anaphylaxis, Awareness, Baking, Behavior, Behavioral-Health, Blog, Caregivers, Catered-events, Celebrations, Children, Christmas, Compassion, Dining-Out, Diningout, Education, Empathy, Epinephrine, FAACT, Family, Food, Food-Allergies, Food-Allergy, Food-allergy-blog, Friends, Friendship, Giving, Grateful, Gratitude, Hanukkah, Holiday, Holiday-Tips, Holidays, Inclusion, Know-The-FAACTs, Label, Medic-Alert, Medication, Mother, Nutrition, Parent, Patient, Pinterest, Preparedness, Readlabels, Recipes, Resources, Restaurant, Safety-Tips, Self-care, Student, Support, Teens, Thanksgiving, Tips, Traditions, Travel, Traveling

by Caroline Moassessi, FAACT’s Vice President of Community Relations Everyone seems to be bursting with excitement to gather with family and friends in a way that feels closer to “normal.” While we may never

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Blog

Sharing Gratitude After a Challenging Year

December 6, 2021  |  Advocacy, Allergies, Allergy, Allergy-Awareness, Anaphylaxis, Awareness, Blog, Caregivers, Children, Christmas, Civil-Rights, Compassion, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID19, Education, Emotions, Empathy, FAACT, Family, Food, Food-Allergies, Food-Allergy, Food-allergy-blog, FoodService, Friends, Friendship, Giving, Grateful, Gratitude, Healthcare, Holiday, Holiday-Tips, Holidays, Know-The-FAACTs, Medic-Alert, Medication, Parent, Patient, Preparedness, Programs, Quarantine, Resilience, Roommates, Safety-Tips, School, Self-Care, Student, Support, Support-Group, Teal-Love, Teens, Thank-You, Tips, Traditions, Travel, Traveling

The Covid-19 pandemic continues to bring challenges to our daily lives. Yet it has also helped us focus on what’s really important – family, friends, and health. FAACT is grateful for the many people who made it

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10 Important Safety Reminders for Celebrating the Holidays from FAACT

10 Important Safety Reminders for Celebrating the Holidays from FAACT

December 5, 2017  |  Allergies, Allergy-awareness, Anaphylaxis, Anaphylaxis-action-plan, Blog, Christmas, Dining-out, Education, Epinephrine, Food, Food-allergy, Food-allergy-blog, Giving, Hanukkah, Holiday, Holiday-tips, Holidays, Know-the-faacts, Medic-alert, Medications, Recipes, Safety-tips, Support, Tips, Traditions, Traveling, Vacation

by Stacey Stratton, FAACT's Publications Manager The holidays are approaching, and can bring your family party invites and travel plans. Here are some food allergy safety reminders to help you have a safe and enjoyable

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