Putting the STRIPED Advocacy Playbook to work

This Playbook can help you lead your colleagues pass policy to give our kids a new front line of defense from harmful body and beauty ideals, one that stays ahead of the health threats by tackling both cause and effect. Your campaign plan starts here.

Below are our campaigns with supporting materials for you to get started:

Over-the-Counter Diet Pills & Muscle Supplements: Ban Sale to Children

Over-the-Counter Diet Pills: Excise Tax

Digitally Altered Advertisements

Ban on Body Size Discrimination

CROWN Act: Ban Natural Hair Style Discrimination

Over-the-Counter Laxatives: Ban Sale to Children

Prohibit the Sale and Use of Liquid Silicone for Cosmetic Injections

Promote Eating Disorders Prevention in Schools

Final Thoughts

We, at STRIPED, would love to hear about your advocacy campaign along the way so we can share lessons learned with other policymakers. We are all in this together and what works in Boston may just as well in Baton Rouge!

Please reach out with comments, questions, and suggestions at striped@hsph.harvard.edu. And thank you for your willingness to use your political power to improve the lives of others.

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STRIPED News

Today marks a win for the Out of Kids’ Hands Campaign! Thanks to our youth advocates, S.5863/A.5610D took effect in NY state on April 22, 2024, restricting sales of weight-loss and muscle-building supplements to minors. A judge denied an injunction motion by the supplement industry. This much-needed change protects children’s health and well-being. Find Senator Mayer’s full press release here.

Check out STRIPED’s new roadmap, which provides model legislation, guides, and fact sheets to help advocates create safer online spaces for youth through algorithm risk audits and social media transparency.

New STRIPED research highlights the significant health and economic toll of body dissatisfaction, weight discrimination, and skin-shade discrimination in America. Learn more in our report, The Real Cost of Beauty Ideals.

STRIPED is now accepting applications for travel scholarships for the next Eating Disorders Coalition Advocacy Day on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, May 8, 2024. To apply, visit our Travel Scholarship webpage. Applications are due Tuesday, April 2, 2024.

Hear key insights on eating disorder prevention from STRIPED Director Bryn Austin in an important new episode of the “Food, We Need to Talk” podcast. Don’t miss this revealing conversation on critical strategies for at-risk youth during National Eating Disorders Awareness Week.

NPR’s Morning Edition featured a collaboration with colleagues at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health emphasizing the need for universities to work with mental health influencers in order to create impactful social media content promoting evidence-based research.

New STRIPED research in the American Journal of Law and Medicine: Algorithms, Addiction, and Adolescent Mental Health: An Interdisciplinary Study to Inform State-level Policy Action to Protect Youth from the Dangers of Social Media.