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The Alliance for Eating Disorder Awareness (The Alliance) is a non-profit organization working to prevent eating disorders and promote a positive body image, free from weight preoccupation and size prejudice. The Alliance offers educational presentations, cutting-edge information and referral, training, advocacy, support and mentoring services.
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| In October of 2000, The Alliance for Eating Disorders Awareness (The Alliance) was created as a source of community outreach, education, awareness, and prevention of the various eating disorders currently plaguing our nation. Our aim is to share the message that recovery from these disorders is possible, and that individuals should not have to suffer or recover alone. We seek to educate individuals, particularly the youth, about the dangers of this epidemic, and to reduce the rate and severity of eating disorders among all ages.
The Alliance offers various programs and services both throughout the state and nationwide, as well as advocates for change in eating disorders legislation. Since its inception, The Alliance has offered presentations on eating disorders and their prevention to over 100,000 individuals. The Alliance strives to dispel potential body image and eating disorder issues, aid and empower those currently struggling, and instill a sense of self-love, self-acceptance, and self confidence. Through presentations, seminars, workshops, phone and email support, treatment referrals, support groups, and informational packets, the Alliance offers opportunities for individuals to receive the information they need free of charge.
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STAFF:
Johanna Kandel, Founder and Executive Director, who recovered after a ten-year-long battle with various eating disorders, is the founder and executive director of The Alliance for Eating Disorders Awareness, based in West Palm Beach, Florida. Since its inception in 2000, The Alliance has brought information and awareness about eating disorders to more than 140,000 middle school, high school, and college students nationally and internationally. In addition, Johanna runs free weekly support groups, mentors individuals with eating disorders and their families through their treatment and recovery, helps thousands of people to gain information and find the help they need, and advocates for legislation on the local, state, and national level.
She is the Chair of the Eating Disorders Coalition Junior Board, Florida Team leader for the National Eating Disorders Association’s STAR program, and a board member/Expert Advisory Committee member for Girl Future, a website dedicated to educating and empowering girls ages 9 to 15. She is an active participant in National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, has received many awards for her ongoing outreach and advocacy work, including the Jefferson Award for Public Service©, Giraffe Award, and Harlequin Enterprises’ More Than Words Award, and has appeared on national television programs including NBC Nightly News and Today.
Johanna’s book Life Beyond Your Eating Disorder will be released this Fall by Harlequin Nonfiction. Success to Johanna means helping even one person avoid traveling down the same road she did and to continue to use her voice in the fight against eating disorders.
To email Johanna, jkandel@eatingdisorderinfo.org
Julia Morpurgo, Intern - Julia is a journalism student in New York with special interests in positive body image, magazine publications and pop-culture trivia. She interns, volunteers and freelances as an editor, writer and graphic designer.
2009-2010 BOARD MEMBERS:
Joann Hendelman, Ph.D., RN
President
Kyle Goldstein
Vice President
Janel Heath, Psy.D., PA
Secretary
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Treasurer
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Christopher Ramsey, DMD
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