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Celebrating everyBODY: a walk for eating disorders awareness
ORGANIZATION: Alliance for Eating Disorders Awareness, Inc
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celebrating everyBODY: walks for eating disorders awareness Please join The Alliance for Eating Disorders Awareness for "celebrating everyBODY": walks for eating disorders awareness. Our 7th annual walk in South Florida will be on Saturday, March 3, 2018. More than 850 individuals attended last year's walk, and we anticipate 800+ walkers this year. Help us raise awareness and promote education of eating disorders and body image, and spread the message of hope and recovery throughout Florida. All proceeds of the celebrating everyBODY walk will remain in our community!
SOUTH FLORIDA WALK INFORMATION
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About Alliance for Eating Disorders Awareness, Inc
Location:
513 US Highway One #223, P.O. Box 13155, North Palm Beach, FL 33408, US
Mission Statement
The Alliance for Eating Disorders Awareness seeks to establish easily accessible programs across the nation that allow children and young adults the opportunity to learn about eating disorders and the positive effects of a healthy body image. Furthermore, our aim is to disseminate educational information to parents and caregivers about the warning signs, dangers, and consequences of anorexia, bulimia, and other related disorders.
Description
According to the National Institute of Health, eating disorders affect 1 in 5 girls, and approximately 1 in 18 men in the United States. The Alliance for Eating Disorders Awareness (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 its presentations and contact with young women and men throughout Palm Beach County and South Florida, The Alliance seeks to establish easily accessible programs that allow children and young adults the opportunity to learn about eating disorders and the positive effects of a healthy body image. Furthermore our aim is to disseminate education information to parents and caregivers about the warning signs, danger, and consequences of anorexia, bulimia, and other related disorders.
We live in a society that reveres extreme thinness, coupled with compulsive over-exercise, and we have learned to view it as a symbol of prestige, happiness, love and success. Repeated exposure to our culture's unrealistic standards for body shape and size can lead to the internalization and belief that such a standard is acceptable and obtainable. Eating disorders have extreme physical and mental repercussions - including the highest mortality rate among all psychological disorders- and also act as a barrier for personal growth, education, and success. Until individuals learn to be comfortable with their own mirror images, they will continue to measure themselves against an unrealistic ideal. By building resiliency skills to combat the negative messages that they encounter, our youth will be less likely to fall victim to negative self-talk, low self-esteem, and ultimately an eating disorder.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
3600 W Sample RdCoconut Creek, FL 33066
DATE POSTED
February 20, 2018
SKILLS
- Adult Education
- Crisis Intervention
- Mental Health
- Counseling / Mental Health
- Crisis Counseling
- Youth Services
GOOD FOR
- Kids
- Teens
- People 55+
REQUIREMENTS
- Driver's License Needed