Greeks Promoting Positive Attitudes (GPPA)
Eating Disorder Awareness Week 2008
Visit the EDAW Page for this year's EDAW schedule of events.Roles and Responsibilities:
- Serve as a positive role models, promoting healthy attitudes about self-esteem and body image.
- Provide information and resources.
- Plan and present educational programs.
- Be a source of support for members of her sorority.
- Act as liaison to campus mental health professionals.
Goals:
- To enhance awareness in sororities of eating disorders and to provide representatives with appropriate guidelines for offering information, support, and referrals for house members who are struggling with these problems.
- To prevent the development of eating disorders and body image problems by increasing understanding and awareness of unhealthy culturally prescribed standards of size and shape for women, harmful dieting practices and the damaging emphasis on appearance as a measure of self-worth.
Mission: To educate sorority women about the prevention and treatment of eating disorders and to promote healthy attitudes about healthy attitudes about self and body image.
