03/25/2024
Important community training on eating disorders happening April 16th at 4pm at Middle Tyger Community Center - open to parents, educators and clinicians. CEs provided for nurses via Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Careers and LPCs can receive CE's through NBCC. We updated an eating disorder film titled "ED 201" that we recently updated to feature national researchers, clinicians and individuals with lived expertise discussing recent risk and protective factors. But the project is even more crucial because it came out of a training program grant funded by Spartanburg Regional Foundation and Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine to train physicians and medical students about eating disorders through SharpenMinds 4 hour program - what physicians / pediatricians need to know about eating disorders today. We then empower those physicians and medical students to serve as the health educators for community trainings. We have completed the first phase of the grant and are now moving to the community trainings featuring the trained health educators. I'm so blown away by our team, led by co-PIs Natalie M Fadel Maggie Gainey, and our co-investigators Duke Biber, PhD, NBC-HWC, Alexis Marino Stoner and Timothy Brewerton. This has been a long journey and we couldn't have done this without the support, inspiration and leadership of the United Way of the Piedmont behavioral health task force -- a tribe of collaborators making real impact every day.