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Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Eating Disorders Coalition

 

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International No Diet Day May 6, 2008

 

The Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Eating Disorders Coalition celebrates International No Diet Day on Sunday, May 6, 2012.More here

Have a personal story to tell about your experiences with an eating disorder in your self or your family? Have an interest in speaking at next year's Faces of Recovery panel discussion? Click here for more info. For an example of one of our 2012 panel addresses please click here.

Mark your calendars ... Our 2012 Faces Of Recovery community panel discussion on Eating Disorders will be held Wednesday February 8th at the Best Western Royal Brock Hotel at 7 pm. More details on our News page.

In celebration of National Eating Disorder Awareness Week, UWO Wellness Centre is presenting AWL's educational
Eating Disorder & Body Image Awareness Expose. Tuesday January 31st  A fun day of information boards, multi-media presentations, body casting, re-writing offensive advertisements, cookie decorating, a variety of information from on- and off-campus partners, and more activities! Details here

On Friday, October 28, 2011 The Eating Disorders Awareness Coalition is presenting the 17th Annual Professional Development Conference. ACTivities to Treat Body Image Dissatisfaction: Acceptance & Commitment Therapy For Clients With & Without Eating Disorders with Dr. Michelle Heffner. More here

Several stores in Guelph"s Stone Road Mall will be supporting this year's No Diet Day with Affirmation Slogan in their windows for the first week of May. More here.

Celebrating National Eating Disorder Awareness Week 2011 - HUNGRY FOR GOLD Athletes and Eating Disorders presented by Dr Margo Mountjoy MD, Sports Medicine Thursday Feb 3, 4-5pm at St Mathias Anglican Church - AND our Anual Faces of Recovery Community Panel Discussion Thursday Feb 10, 7-9 pm, Italian Canadian Club. More info here.

TVO Parents' website has posted helpful information aboutbody image issues here.

Listen to a telephone interview with individual and family therapist Candy MacNeil as she warns about the consequences of a poor body image in our children.

Listen to a telephone interview with April Gates, Program Co-ordinator of the Eating Disorders Program at Homewood Health Centre, about the treatment and prevention of eating disorders.

Follow up to our Public Lecture:
Listen to the tiltle track of Jenni Schaefer's Life Without Ed - How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder and How You Can Too. Click here to visit her site.
 

Directory of Resources and Services for the

Prevention and Treatment of Eating Disorders

Site Revised – April 2011

 

About the Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Eating Disorders Coalition:

The Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Eating Disorders Coalition was formed in 2000 after a number of community agencies working in eating disorder prevention and treatment came together to celebrate National Eating Disorder Awareness Week.

The purpose of this coalition is to increase public and professional awareness of eating disorders and unhealthy body images; provide eating disorder resources to the community; and to provide an opportunity for networking amongst a diverse range of health and mental health professionals, social service providers and others interested in the prevention and treatment of eating disorders.

About this Directory:

One of the comments most voiced when the coalition first formed was the need to know who was doing what in regard to eating disorders and body image in our community.  Some people knew of some services, but not others, and there was a feeling that surely more existed.  The need for a comprehensive directory for Wellington and Dufferin soon became apparent. This is the first edition of such a directory, and we hope to add to it and refine it as time goes on.

In developing this directory, surveys were sent out to local service providers and agencies.  Only agencies or individuals who returned the surveys were included in the directory.  If an agency or service provider inadvertently got missed, please accept our apologies and contact a member of the coalition so that you can be included in the second edition.

Recognizing that people often travel outside of Wellington and Dufferin for services, we considered listing every resource in surrounding areas.  Instead, we have included a few key treatment facilities and the contact information for surrounding coalitions who have produced their own comprehensive listings of services provided in their areas. 

 

 

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