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- www.anad.org/
With a focus on education, ANAD launched the first national conference
in 1979. Hundreds of volunteers, many of them health professionals,
offer their services and continue to provide conferences, seminars,
workshops and presentations across the nation. ANAD's School Guidelines reaches thousands of schools throughout the country to help faculty prevent, identify and intervene in eating disorders.
Consumer
advocacy projects are also a top priority. Many people face dilemmas of
inaccess to care because of insurance problems; ANAD fights both on a
federal and state by state level for mental health parity and also
fights against insurance discrimination. These activists testify at
Congressional Hearings on issues like research and education funding or
the dangers of diet pills and laxatives. They are active in Washington,
serving on committees and supporting bills involving women's health
issues and mental health.
ANAD wages campaigns against harmful
advertising which promote eating disorders, and it has convinced
companies like Revlon, Hershey and Channel to drop their detrimental
advertising. Recently, ANAD has campaigned against the pro-anorexia
sites on the internet and has been successful in identifying these
destructive sites. With the cooperation of companies like Yahoo, the
problematic sites are removed. The Media and Internet Guardian program continues full force today to meet this challenge.
All ANAD services are FREE.
None of this would be possible without ANAD volunteers. They are the
heart and soul of ANAD. Our administrative costs are very low because
of the devoted individuals who have provided hours of work and pro-bono
services. Today, ANAD continues to grow with an additional focus on
using the internet to reach more people and providing more services.
As always, there is a human and personal touch that makes ANAD so
unique.
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