International Children's Growth Awareness Day & Children's Growth Awareness Week
Children’s Growth Awareness Week
Children’s Growth Awareness Week takes place in September every year.
During this week, and in the weeks building up to it, international groups, charities and organisations like the Child Growth Foundation raise awareness of children’s growth.
The Child Growth Foundation is here to make a difference wherever growth is a concern, and this important week allows us to showcase how we’re here to support families with a concern, seeking a diagnosis or with a diagnosis.
Children’s Growth Awareness Week is an important chance to help drive the detection, referral and diagnosis of growth conditions, and to reach those who have a concern about their child’s growth to inspire them to get in touch to help wherever we can and to showcase that #GrowthMatters.
2025 Children’s Growth Awareness Week is 14 September – 20 September.Â
International Children’s Growth Awareness Day
International Child Growth Awareness Day happens on September 20th each year and is a worldwide event, organised by ICOSEP, the International Coalition of Organizations Supporting Endocrine Patients.
This special day aims to raise awareness amongst the public and healthcare professionals about children’s growth conditions and the importance of child measuring and understanding children’s growth.
Get involved
We’d love your help raising awareness during Children’s Growth Awareness Week (CGAW) and on International Children’s Growth Awareness Day (ICGAD).
To help our community raise awareness during CGAW and on ICGAD we’ve created a public board full of resources: https://trello.com/b/LI62Wozm/cgaw-icgad-2025. On this board you’ll find images, videos, infographics and more that you can download and share during CGAW, 14-20 September, and to mark International Children’s Growth Awareness Day (ICGAD) on 20 September.
Social media takeovers
The CGF runs takeovers for key days and weeks in the year, including for Children’s Growth Awareness Week and Rare Disease Day. You can catch up on previous takeovers here.
Board of resources for Children’s Growth Awareness Week
Board of resources for Children's Growth Awareness Week We’d love your help raising awareness during Children’s Growth Awareness Week (CGAW) and on International Children’s Growth Awareness Day (ICGAD). To help our community raise awareness during CGAW and on ICGAD...
Awareness campaign launched: Leave no shadow of doubt
A new awareness campaign has been launched by our charity to reach families with a concern about their child's growth, to encourage them to leave no shadow of doubt, trust your instincts and get in touch with the CGF. It's been a hugely exciting week at the CGF, as we...
Laura’s blog: Your Height, My Height storybook
Your Height, My Height was written by Laura, a parent and member of the CGF team. One of Laura's children has the growth condition Growth Hormone Deficiency. Â Â Â I was always telling my son that his height should not define him, or hold him back from...
Children’s Growth Awareness Week 2024 is here!
  It's Children's Growth Awareness Week! A very special week for our charity and the international child growth community. We've got a packed week of activity planned, including social media takeovers, the launch of our awareness campaign, our latest Virtual Cuppa...
