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1st Annual NEDA Walk!

Join NEDA in making the first annual NEDA Walk, kicking off during NEDAwareness Week 2009, a national success by holding a Walk in your community!  Registration to be a NEDA Walk Coordinator is now open.  Click here to fillout the NEDAwareness Week registration form.  Check the NEDA Walk box to get your NEDA Walk Kit complete with a NEDA Walk Handbook, T-shirts, posters, and all the resources you need to make organizing your walk easy and fun. 
Click here for more information on coordinating a NEDA Walk.  
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NEDAwareness Week Seattle Event: NEDA Silent Auction Art Show
In recognition of NEDAwareness Week, we invite you to attend the NEDA Silent Auction Art Show on February 26, 2009, 6:00pm-9:00pm at See Sound Lounge in Belltown.  You are invited to come and enjoy an evening of visual and performance art dedicated to raising awareness about eating disorders and celebrating the beauty of diversity in body shapes and sizes.  NEDA is currently accepting art submissions.  Click here to view the call for submissions. 



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NEDAwareness Week

NEDAwareness Week 2009: February 22-28

2009 NEDAwareness Week Theme: ...until eating disorders are history

First Annual NEDA Walk! Learn more about the NEDA Walk!

Thanks to our NEDAwareness Week Sponsors.

Online registration for NEDAwareness Week and to become a NEDA Walk Coordinator is now open!

Register Now!


To learn more about the first annual NEDA Walk kicking off during NEDAwareness Week 2009, click here.

NEDAwareness Week reaches millions with messages of hope and recovery.

What started with professionals in the field who are now known as Founders of NEDA in 1987 has become a passionate movement known as NEDAwareness Week .  The largest eating disorders outreach effort in the country is held the last week in every February and has helped reach millions of people with messages of prevention, hope and recovery.

The mission of NEDAwareness Week

Our aim of NEDAwareness Week is to ultimately prevent eating disorders and body image issues while reducing the stigma surrounding eating disorders and improving access to treatment. Eating disorders are serious, life-threatening illnesses — not choices — and it’s important to recognize the pressures, attitudes and behaviors that shape the disorder.

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NEDAwareness Week Poster - ...until eating disorders are history

What is NEDAwareness Week?

NEDAwareness Week is a collective effort of primarily volunteers, eating disorder professionals, health care providers, educators, social workers, and individuals committed to raising awareness of the dangers surrounding eating disorders and the need for early intervention and treatment.

How NEDAwareness Week Works

NEDAwareness Week participants organize events, share stories and distribute educational materials at schools, fitness centers, offices, community centers, places of worship and more mainly during the last week of February each year. As an official NEDAwareness Week participant you can be involved in any way that works with your schedule, resources, community, and interests. For example, you could donate copies of GO GIRLS!™ and Healthy Body Image: Teaching Kids to Eat and Love Their Bodies Too! to schools, ask your workplace to participate in the NEDA Wear Your Jeans to Work Fundraiser, coordinate a first annual NEDA Walk, or arrange interactive and educational activities such as panel discussions, fashion shows, body fairs, movie screenings, art exhibits and more.  These events and activities attract public media attention - on local, national and international levels.

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Thanks to our 2009 NEDAwareness Week Sponsors.

Gold Sustaining Sponsors
Remuda Ranch Programs
Radar Programs

Titanium Sustaining Sponsor
CRC Health Group

Silver Sustaining Sponsor
Eating Disorder Services at Rogers Memorial Hospital
McCallum Place
Pine Grove Women’s Center

Copper Sustaining Sponsor
Oliver-Pyatt Centers
The Renfrew Center

NEDAwareness Week Promoters
Center for Eating Disorders at Sheppard Pratt
UPMC/UCSD - Brain Imaging Research

NEDAwareness Week Supporters
The Bella Vita - A Beautiful Life Psychology Group
Laureate Psychiatric Clinic & Hospital
Methodist Hospital Eating Disorders Institute (Opening as Park Nicollet Melrose Institute 2009)


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