Advocate Information

Packet

April 24, 2018

EDC Capitol Hill Advocacy Day

Schedule

April 24, 2018

8:15am - 8:30am Bag Drop (optional)

St. Mark’s Episcopal Church 301 A St. SE, Washington, D.C. 20003 (Entrance on 3rd St. SE) If you need a place to keep luggage for the day, you are welcome to leave your bags with us before heading to registration. The church is located about a 10-minute walk from registration. 8:30am - 9:00am Registration

Kennedy Caucus Room (Rm. 325) Russell Senate Office Building A light breakfast will be available at Message Training. 9:00am - 11:00am Senator Klobuchar Opening Address & Advocacy Day Message Training

Kennedy Caucus Room (Rm. 325) Russell Senate Office Building Please allow time in the morning to register and be seated with your Advocacy Day team members by 9:00am. Message Training and practice with your team is required for all advocates. We will review our goals and talking points for the day. 11:00am - 3:30pm Meetings with Congressional Staff

U.S. Capitol Complex, multiple locations 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, share their stories 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. You may also wish to purchase snacks for the remainder of the day. 3:30pm - 5:00pm Congressional Address & Wrap-Up Discussion

Hart Senate Office Building, Room 902 Advocates will attend an address by Eating Disorder Champion Representatives and a discussion of the day’s events and experiences led by EDC Board President Dr. Bryn Austin. 5:00pm - 5:30pm Bag Pickup

St. Mark’s Episcopal Church 301 A St. SE, Washington, D.C. 20003 If you left luggage at the bag drop in the morning, please be sure to pick up your bags immediately following the wrap-up discussion. All bags must be picked up by 5:30pm.

REGISTRATION & MESSAGE TRAINING

Kennedy Caucus Room (Rm. 325), Russell Senate Office Building Entrance on Delaware Ave. NE Registration: 8:30am - 9:00am Message Training: 9:00am - 11:00am

METRORAIL

Take a RED line train to the Union Station metro

station (wmata.com). The Russell Senate Office

Building is about a 7-minute walk from the

station. Exit the station and walk south onto

Delaware Ave. NE. The Russell Senate Office

Building will be on your left.

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 left on Constitution Ave. NE and then

your first right onto Delaware Ave. NE. The

entrance to the Russell Senate Office Building

will be on your right.

TAXI

If arriving by taxi, tell the driver that you are

going to CAPITOL HILL, to the Russell Senate

Office Building at Delaware Avenue NE and

Constitution Avenue.

If arriving via Uber, the Uber app has the Russell

Senate Office Building stored in its system.

LATE? EMERGENCY?

Call the EDC at 202-543-9570

Getting Around Capitol Hill

Bag-Drop

Registration

End of Advocacy Day Wrap-Up

Russell Senate Office Building

Photo credit: Senate Photography Studio,

https://www.senate.gov/visiting/common/image/russell.htm

Map

Registration

Wrap-up Discussion

Bag Drop

EDC Board of Directors

Officers

President 2017-2018: S. Bryn Austin, ScD, FAED, Academy for Eating Disorders Vice President 2017-2018: Chase Bannister, MDIV, MSW, LCSW, CEDS, Bannister Consultancy Treasurer 2017-2018: Jillian Lampert, PhD, RD, LD, MPH, FAED, The Emily Program Secretary 2017-2018: 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 Lisa Radzak, The Emily Program Foundation Gail R. Schoenbach, Gail R. Schoenbach FREED Foundation/STAT EDC Team

Allison Ivie, Senior Policy Associate

David Jaffe, Executive Director Sarah Ohanesian, Senior Program Associate Katrina Velasquez, Esq., M.A., Policy Director

EDC Member Organizations

Champions Circle Kantor & Kantor, LLP National Eating Disorders Association Residential Eating Disorders Consortium Executive Circle Clementine Eating Recovery Center The Emily Program The Emily Program Foundation 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/STAT 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

Support Circle Aloria Health 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 Strategic Training Initiative for the Prevention of Eating Disorders (STRIPED) Walden Behavioral Care Hope Circle Eating Disorders Coalition of Iowa (EDCI) Eating Disorder Therapy LA F.E.A.S.T. FINDINGbalance International Federation of Eating Disorders Dietitians La Ventana Treatment Programs Manna Scholarship Fund Moonshadow’s Spirit The National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Eating Disorders (ANAD) Project HEAL Rogers Behavioral Health Stay Strong Virginia Wrobel & Smith, PLLP