Advocate Information Packet

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1 Advocate Information Packet October 5, 2017 EDC Capitol Hill Advocacy Day

2 Schedule October 5, :45am - 8:00am St. Mark s Episcopal Church 301 A St. SE, Washington, D.C Bag-Drop (optional) If you need a place to keep your luggage during Advocacy Day, you are welcome to leave your bags at St. Mark s Church, about an 8-minute walk from registration in the Hart Senate Office Building. Please note that you must pick up your bags by 5:30pm. 8:00am - 8:30am 8:30am - 8:45am 8:45am - 10:30am Senator Klobuchar Opening Address Message Training Message Training and practice with your team is required for all advocates. We will review our goals and talking points for the day. A light breakfast will be available at Message Training. 10:30am - 3:30pm U.S. Capitol Complex, multiple locations Meetings with Congressional Staff At the U.S. Capitol, we will meet in teams to brief elected officials and their staff on our important legislative goals. No one will advocate alone. Advocacy Day teams will arrive for each appointment, deliver a packet of materials, and talk about how Congress can help. Advocacy Day teams will eat lunch together at one of the Capitol Hill Cafeterias. Please note that advocates are responsible for lunch. 3:30pm - 5:00pm U.S. Capitol Visitor Center, Rm. HVC 201AB Congressional Address to Advocates & Wrap-Up Discussion Advocates will attend an address by Eating Disorder Champion Representatives, and EDC Board President Dr. Bryn Austin will lead a discussion of the day's events and experiences. 5:00pm - 5:30pm St. Mark s Episcopal Church 301 A St. SE, Washington, D.C Bag Pick-Up If you left luggage at the bag-drop in the morning, please be sure to pick up your bags immediately following the Congressional address and wrap-up discussion.

3 Getting Around Capitol Hill REGISTRATION & MESSAGE TRAINING Hart Senate Office Building - Room 902, located on Constitution Avenue between 1st and 2nd Street NE : Message Training: 8:00am - 8:30am 8:30am - 10:30am METRORAIL Take a RED line train to the Union Station metro station (wmata.com). The Hart Senate Office Building is about a 10-minute walk from the station. Exit the station and take a left onto Massachusetts Ave. NE. Then take a right onto 2nd St. NE. You will cross C St. NE and then the Hart Office Building will be on your right. You can also take a BLUE/ORANGE/SILVER line to Capitol South metro station (wmata.com) and head north on 1st St. SE toward C St. SE. Take a right on Independence Ave SE and then your first left on 2nd St. SE. You ll walk past the Library of Congress and the U.S. Supreme Court. The Hart Office Building will be on your left. TAXI If arriving by taxi, tell the driver that you are going to CAPITOL HILL, to the Hart Senate Office Building at Constitution Avenue NE and 2nd St. NE. If arriving via Uber, the Uber app has the Hart Senate Office Building stored in its system. LATE? EMERGENCY? Call the EDC at End of Advocacy Day Wrap-Up Discussion Bag-Drop

4 Map Congressional Address/ Wrap-up Bag-Drop

5 EDC Board of Directors Officers President : S. Bryn Austin, ScD, FAED, Academy for Eating Disorders Vice President : Chase Bannister, MDIV, MSW, LCSW, CEDS, Bannister Consultancy Treasurer : Jillian Lampert, PhD, RD, LD, MPH, FAED, The Emily Program Secretary : Millie Plotkin, MLS, Eating Recovery Center Immediate Past President: Johanna Kandel, Alliance for Eating Disorders Awareness Directors Lisa S. Kantor, JD, Kantor & Kantor LLP Norman Kim, PhD, Reasons Eating Disorder Center & Center for Change Molly McShane, MD, MPH, Monte Nido and Affiliates Sam Menaged, JD, The Renfrew Center Claire Mysko, National Eating Disorders Association Gail R. Schoenbach, Gail R. Schoenbach FREED Foundation/S.T.A.T Kitty Westin, MA, LP, The Emily Program Foundation EDC Team Sarah Corcoran, Senior Policy Associate Al Guida, J.D., Policy Consultant David Jaffe, Executive Director EDC Member Organizations Champions Circle National Eating Disorders Association Residential Eating Disorders Consortium Executive Circle Clementine Eating Recovery Center The Emily Program The Emily Program Foundation Kantor & Kantor, LLP Monte Nido Oliver-Pyatt Centers Veritas Collaborative Policy Circle Academy for Eating Disorders The Renfrew Center Leadership Circle Alliance for Eating Disorders Awareness Gail R. Schoenbach FREED Foundation Reasons Eating Disorder Center Remuda Ranch at The Meadows Advocacy Circle Center for Change International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals Foundation (iaedp) Laureate Eating Disorders Program Timberline Knolls Sarah Ohanesian, Senior Program Associate Katrina Velasquez, Esq., M.A., Policy Director Support Circle Cambridge Eating Disorder Center Castlewood Treatment Centers Center for Discovery The Center for Eating Disorders at Sheppard Pratt Eating Disorder Hope International Eating Disorder Action (IEDAction) Mirasol Eating Disorder Recovery Centers Mothers Against Eating Disorders (MAED) Multi-Service Eating Disorders Association Park Nicollet Melrose Center Rosewood Centers for Eating Disorders Walden Behavioral Care Hope Circle Aloria Health Casa Palmera Eating Disorders Coalition of Iowa (EDCI) The Eating Disorder Foundation Eating Disorder Therapy LA The Eating Disorders Center at Rogers Memorial Hospital FEAST FINDINGbalance Gurze Books International Federation of Eating Disorders Dietitians (IFEDD) La Ventana Treatment Programs Manna Scholarship Fund McCallum Place Eating Disorder Centers Moonshadow s Spirit The National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Eating Disorders (ANAD) Strategic Training Initiative for the Prevention of Eating Disorders (STRIPED) Theravive Wrobel & Smith, PLLP WVU Disordered Eating Center of Charleston