The Isabel Whitcomb Stay Strong Fund

We are excited to announce that in January, the University of North Carolina Center of Excellence for Eating Disorders (CEED) established the Isabel Whitcomb Stay Strong Fund. This fund will create an ambassador's program, with the vision of building an education and referral network in North Carolina, in order to provide children and families with evidence-based care for eating disorders in their home communities.  

The program has three broad aims:

       1. Educate pediatricians on the detection and treatment of eating disorders in their patients and help them guide parents to family-based therapy resources. 

       2. Identify and train 7 therapists in family-based therapy. Ensure coverage by focusing on the major metros in North Carolina. Provide weekly supervision via video-conferencing. 

       3. Measure the fidelity of family-based therapy practice in sessions via audio recordings and the expansion in services through the Ambassador program. 

       As anyone who has read Isabel's blog posts and her book already knows, improving services for people struggling with eating disorders was one of her goals. You can help achieve this goal by supporting CEED with a donation to the Isabel Whitcomb Stay Strong Fund.