The Anna Westin Act is in the final stages...YAY!!...and we're so
close to being able to share the entirety of the bill with you, our
amazing advocates. We can hardly wait!For now...here are a few facts about the bill thus far:
The Anna Westin Act's language was drafted and vetted (repeatedly) by numerous advocates and individuals, including: family members of those impacted by eating disorders, researchers, treatment providers of varying profession, non-profits, academics, attorneys, Members of Congress, recovered individuals and more!
The Anna Westin Act focuses on several things, including: training of
health professionals on evidence-based findings, promising emerging best
practices, and/or recommendations that pertain to the identification,
early intervention, prevention of the development of eating disordered
behaviors and the treatment of eating disorders.
The Anna
Westin Act addresses (but is not limited to) things such as training and
courses based on: how to help prevent the development of eating
disordered behaviors, identify, intervene early and appropriately and
adequately treat eating disordered patients; how to identify individuals
with eating disorders, those who are at risk for suffering eating
disorders and therefore at risk for the serious medical and mental
health complications associated with eating disorders; how to conduct a
thorough and comprehensive assessment of the individual and familial
health risk factors; and how to conduct a comprehensive assessment of a
treatment plan.
The Anna Westin Act addresses so much more and we
apologize for only giving snippets at a time but we want to make the
bill as awesome as possible before we present it to you fully --your
opinion matters so much to us!! ~ Plus, legislative counsel is busy
figuring out which CFR and what sub-sections of already existing law
will be amended with the Anna Westin Act...it's a tedious task but
someone has to do it! ;-) As always we will share more just as soon as we can.
Writing the Anna Westin Act and getting the bill introduced (with bi-partisan support!) is an incredible honor and we are so grateful for your patience, support and tireless advocacy with us.
Please join us at May13th's #EDNationalLobbyDay and show your support for Kitty Westin and her family as together we introduce #AnnasLaw. #TheTimeIsNow
To Register for Lobby Day, please visit: www.eatingdisorderscoalition.org
The Anna
Westin Act addresses (but is not limited to) things such as training and
courses based on: how to help prevent the development of eating
disordered behaviors, identify, intervene early and appropriately and
adequately treat eating disordered patients; how to identify individuals
with eating disorders, those who are at risk for suffering eating
disorders and therefore at risk for the serious medical and mental
health complications associated with eating disorders; how to conduct a
thorough and comprehensive assessment of the individual and familial
health risk factors; and how to conduct a comprehensive assessment of a
treatment plan. The Anna Westin Act addresses so much more and we
apologize for only giving snippets at a time but we want to make the
bill as awesome as possible before we present it to you fully --your
opinion matters so much to us!! ~ Plus, legislative counsel is busy
figuring out which CFR and what sub-sections of already existing law
will be amended with the Anna Westin Act...it's a tedious task but
someone has to do it! ;-) As always we will share more just as soon as we can.Writing the Anna Westin Act and getting the bill introduced (with bi-partisan support!) is an incredible honor and we are so grateful for your patience, support and tireless advocacy with us.
Please join us at May13th's #EDNationalLobbyDay and show your support for Kitty Westin and her family as together we introduce #AnnasLaw. #TheTimeIsNow
To Register for Lobby Day, please visit: www.eatingdisorderscoalition.org
1 comment:
I suffered from Bulimia before. I think this law is very helpful to people who are still suffering from eating disorder. This help is also useful to protect our future generation from eating disorders. You want to know my story with bulimia read it at my Bulimia Help Page
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