Advocate Information

Packet

October 5, 2017

EDC Capitol Hill Advocacy Day

Schedule

October 5, 2017

7:45am - 8:00am Bag-Drop (optional)

St. Mark’s Episcopal Church 301 A St. SE, Washington, D.C. 20003

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 Registration

Hart Senate Office Building, Rm. 902 8:30am - 8:45am Senator Klobuchar Opening Address

Hart Senate Office Building, Rm. 902 8:45am - 10:30am Message Training

Hart Senate Office Building, Rm. 902

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 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, 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 Congressional Address to Advocates & Wrap-Up Discussion

U.S. Capitol Visitor Center, Rm. HVC 201AB

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 Bag Pick-Up

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 Congressional address and wrap-up discussion.

REGISTRATION & MESSAGE TRAINING

Hart Senate Office Building - Room 902, located on Constitution Avenue between 1st and 2nd Street NE Registration: 8:00am - 8:30am Message Training: 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 202-543-9570

Getting Around Capitol Hill

Bag-Drop

Registration

End of Advocacy Day Wrap-Up Discussion

Map

Registration

Congressional Address/ Wrap-up

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 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 Sarah Ohanesian, Senior Program Associate

Al Guida, J.D., Policy Consultant Katrina Velasquez, Esq., M.A., Policy Director 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

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