Taking Charge of your Fertility – A Q&A with RESOLVE

We recently had the opportunity to catch up with Barbara Collura, Executive Director of RESOLVE as plans for National Infertility Awareness Week were underway. Barbara took a few minutes to tell us about their important works.

What is RESOLVE?

We are the largest non-profit dedicated to improving the lives of women and men diagnosed with infertility during their family building journey. Since 1974, RESOLVE has provided compassionate support and educational programs while being the voice that represents people with infertility.

What is National Infertility Awareness Week?

Part of RESOLVE’s public education efforts includes a week dedicated to working with RESOLVE volunteers, professional members,  corporate partners, and the media to share important facts and personal stories so that the public understands that people with the disease of infertility matter.  National Infertility Awareness Week® (NIAW) started in 1989 and has turned into the largest movement dedicated to the disease of infertility.

Why NIAW?

NIAW is a chance for the entire infertility community and those that support us, to come together to provide others with information on how to take charge of their family building and shed the isolation they feel when they are wishing for a baby and it’s not happening as quickly has they had planned.

If there’s one thing you would like men and women to get out of NIAW, what would that be?

Our message: Take Charge. It translates no matter where you are in your family building journey. We invite you to take this message, make it your own, and help us spread the word. National Infertility Awareness Week is a movement that needs every one of us.

RESOLVE, along with some of our clinics, have some great programs going on this week to support NIAW. Check out the Attain Fertility Facebook page and go to the Events tab to see which ones might be right for you!