Eating disorders awareness week!

[megahotmaureen]

So glad this is being brought up! My sorority, Delta Phi Epsilon, ANAD is one of its International Philanthopries! http://www.anad.org

[Cardinal026]

The NPC website has a link to information about the National Eating Disorders Screening Program. If this isn't already where you got the idea to do this week, then it'd be good to check out, there is a lot of information. I know that my school did this two years ago (maybe more often, I just only heard about it my junior year) so I'll e-mail the girl that was president of PHC then and ask her what all we did and let you know.

Website: http://www.mentalhealthscreening.org...ge/eating.aspx

ETA: There is contact information on that site - I'd try e-mailing them, they might be able to tell you what they know has been successful/eye opening on other campuses. Good luck!

[ThetaDancer]

^^^
That's the screening program I was trying to explain!

[LightBulb]

Awesome! Thanks, everybody!

We did get the counseling center involved on a preliminary event - we brought a speaker (a clinical psychologist who specializes in eating disorders and works with our local philanthropy) to campus a couple days before the week started. This was good because we were also able to give out flyers for the 5K. The topic was "Eating Disorders: Facts, Myths, and How to Help".

We also have been working on a positive self-image quilt. Because low self-image is a big factor in eating disorders, we had students make paper quilt patches with inspirational quotes or pictures. We are going to put it all on a big banner (quilt), laminate it, and hang it on campus.

I like the assessment idea though. Maybe we could do that next time or for a health fair or something.