How to get involved in NEDAwareness Week
EVERYONE is invited to get involved in NEDAwareness Week! The possible ways to be involved are endless. Register (it's FREE!) and let us know how you are participating. NEDA will support your efforts by providing extensive resources such as a free electronic Educator Packet, the official NEDAwareness Week Resource Website, kits filled with ideas and materials to make your activities easy and fun, and the invaluable NEDAwareness Week Resource and Planning Guide CD-ROM. We encourage all participants to take steps to ensure they have the support and resources they need to provide thoughtful remarks and accurate information.
The benefits of registering for NEDAwareness Week.
By registering to participate in NEDAwareness Week, you will be a voice in your community to increase public awareness of the very real consequences of eating disorders and body dissatisfaction.
Top 10 reasons to register to be an official NEDAwareness Week participant:
1. Registration is FREE! You are immediately connected with the NEDAwareness Week outreach community, the largest outreach effort on eating disorders in the nation.
2. Gain access to the NEDAwareness Week Resource Website, reserved exclusively for registered participants, containing the free electronic Educator Packet, latest activity planning guides, press releases and informational resources.
3. Opportunities to network with other participants across the nation through the message board on the NEDAwareness Week Resource Website.
4. The opportunityto post your contact information and advertise your events on the NEDA website.
5. Chance to purchase a NEDAwareness Week Kit at a huge discount on NEDA materials.
6. Chance to purchase the NEDAwareness Week Resource and Planning Guide CD-ROM, filled with invaluable activity guides and informational resources only available on this CD-ROM.
7. Permission to use the NEDAwareness Week logo on your materials and website.
8. Recognition in national and local media and publicity efforts.
9. Gain access to the valuable resources and opportunities provided by our NEDAwareness Week Partner Organizations.
10. Quarterly National Eating Disorders Association newsletters and special e-mail updates and savings on materials.
*Registration is now open year-round so you can register anytime you are planning awareness events. NEDA recognizes that not everyone can plan their activities for the official NEDAwareness Week and we encourage you to access the benefits listed above anytime.
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The updated NEDAwareness Week Resource and Planning Guide CD-ROM is an invaluable resource. Everything you need is contained in this guide! Updated with many new activity ideas, planning guides and resources, this CD-ROM has something for every demographic, setting, and eating disorders-related topic. You’ll find everything from a new activity list (conveniently organized by timeline and audience type) to tips for new and returning participants, presentations, educational materials, handouts, fact sheets, posters, news releases (if you are holding an event), art project guidelines, group discussion facilitation guides and much more. We encourage you to review the contents of this guide.
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Kits available for purchase from the NEDA Store!
When you register to become a NEDAwareness Week participant, a nominal fee helps cover the cost of producing the kits. As a non-profit organization, NEDA thanks you for your support of this effort. By sharing the cost of the kits, it ensures our ability to provide you with the most current information available to plan a successful NEDAwareness Week. For those with limited resources, we recommend you find a sponsor to cover the cost of your kit.
Office Kit
Don’t have time to organize any activities but want to show your support and raise awareness? Get the Office Kit, complete with posters to put up in your office, and pens and information pamphlets for co-workers to pick up.
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Promotional and Informational Materials Kit
Organizing activities in your community? Access tons of promotional items such as: Temporary tattoos, posters, balloons, pens, bookmarks. information pamphlets and other giveaways.
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Coasters and Coffee Sleeves Bundle
If you are planning events on a college campus, this is a must-have! Pre-printed coasters and coffee sleeves advertising the upcoming NEDAwareness Week for you to distribute to your local campus cafes, pubs, and restaurants makes it easy to advertise in a way that gets attention! We know campuses are packed with activities so we have created coaster and coffee sleeves to provide an effortless, fun way to get the NEDAwareness Week word out.
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T-shirts are available in the store at a discounted rate, so outfit your NEDAwareness Week organizing team!
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NEDAwareness Week Partners: Events, Activities and Discount Materials
JUST Cause Magazine: Free Issue and Subscription!
Click here to check out the February issue of JUST Cause Magazine and get a free subscription! This issue, ("The Sex Issue") covers many issues around sexual assault and acquaintance rape - experiences of trauma with which some people struggling with an eating disorders may be coping.
Webinar: College Athletes and Eating Disorders
You are invited to attend a free webinar featuring Jennifer Carter, PhD. Hosted by the National Eating Disorders Screening Program.
January 27, 2010
12 pm Eastern, 9 am Pacific
Webinar Recording (from 1/12): Eating Disorders and LGBTQ Youth
Learn more about how LGBTQ youth are uniquely impacted by eating disorders and body image issues. Co-hosted by the National Youth Advocacy Coalition and NEDA.
Click here to listen to the webinar and view slides.
Body Respect Session from Respect Rx.
You can download the facilitator's guide for the Body Session from Respect Rx's new Respect: Keep it Going! Kit. You can use the guide to lead teen girls or young women in a powerful respect-building session focused on their bodies.
Click here to download the session guide.
Yoga Guide for NEDAwareness Week Yoga Day: February 27, 2010
NORMAL in Schools is providing a free Yoga Guide so that you can wrap up NEDAwareness Week with a relaxing free yoga class! Yoga instructors will be hosting yoga sessions in cities across the country to raise awareness. If you are not an instructor, invite a local yoga instructor to lead the class!
Click here to download the Yoga Guide.
Operation Beautiful
Operation Beautiful is a grass roots effort to end fat-talk one anonymous post-it note at a time...and a really fun way to participate in NEDAwareness Week! The mission is to post anonymous notes in public spaces for other women to find. This NEDAwareness Week, post your own notes between Feb 21-27, and send the photos to seebriderun@gmail.com to enter them in the NEDAwareness Week Operation Beautiful Collage! Let's see how many people we can touch with a positive message during NEDAwareness Week.
Click here to visit Operation Beautiful.
Media Education Foundation: Film Discounts
MEF is offering HUGE savings on films (with accompanying discussion guides) to registered NEDAwareness Week Participants! Hosting a film screening or watching a film with students, family or friends is a great way to raise awareness and get the conversation started.
Click here to check out available films.
The Body Positive: Film Discount and Events
The Body Positive is offering a 10% discount on the DVD for women, Discover your Healthy Weight, and donating 10% of sales through February to NEDA. Find out how you can sustain a healthy lifestyle and improve your quality of life with this inspirational DVD that has trasformed the lives of women across the country...and share it with others!
Enter "NEDAW" in the "Apply Coupon" box at check out.
Click here to order Discover your Healthy Weight.
Click here to see additional NEDAwareness Week events by The Body Positive!
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