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Monique Santoso, BA
STRIPED Program Coordinator
Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital
monique.santoso@childrens.harvard.edu

STRIPED News

The STRIPED Youth Corps Team invites you to register for the California Youth-Led Press Conference: Let’s Get Dangerous Diet Pills Out of Kids’ Hands! Sign up to learn more about the evidence and hear advocate stories supporting California Assembly Member Cristina Garcia’s bill AB-1341.

Help curb the explosion of eating disorders among teens and parents protect their kids from predatory diet pills, weight loss and muscle-building supplements by emailing your Senator to support S16D.

California has the chance to be first in the nation to protect children from dangerous & deceptive over-the-counter diet pills and weight loss supplements. Email your California Assembly representative now!

Breaking news! On January 11, 2022, NY Assembly Bill A431C, passed the New York State Assembly! We are very excited about this progress and urge all New York constituents to reach out to their Senate legislators asking them to cosponsor and vote in favor of NY Senate Bill S16D.

Parents and pediatricians know it too well: The pandemic has caused a maelstrom of mental distress for millions of U.S. teens. We need to act now. Read Dr. Jason Nagata and Dr. Bryn Austin’s incisive piece in San Francisco Chronicle.

We want to know what you think! Please take a minute to fill out our flash survey.

STRIPED Trainee Ariel Beccia and STRIPED Director Dr. Bryn Austin discuss the gap in public health systems on eating disorder symptoms in latest STAT news article.

Read our STRIPED Fall 2021 Newsletter to find out more about what the STRIPED team has been working on and projects in the pipeline!

Check out our brief, free training with CME for health professionals “Screening, Symptom Recognition & Referral to Treatment for Eating Disorders in Pediatric Primary Care Settings.” For more information on how to register for this e-course, click HERE.

Curious to know more about tried-and-true strategies that you can use to advocate for the prevention of eating disorders and promote body confidence? Take a look at our STRIPED Advocacy Playbook!

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