Meet Our Community Partners!
ANAD is excited to partner with dedicated non-profit organizations who share our mission of providing support, education, and advocacy for individuals and families struggling with eating disorders and mental health challenges.
All Bodies Coalition
Mission & Services
Starting as just a Discord community in 2021, the All Bodies Coalition was founded to give a voice to teens struggling with eating disorders. Now, ABC has grown to become an organization that leverages all its platforms to initiate conversations and make change in the eating disorder recovery space.
Buya Teams
Mission & Services
Eat Breathe Thrive
Mission & Services
Since 2022, ANAD and Eat Breathe Thrive have stood side by side in the fight against eating disorders. Our shared commitment to providing support, education, and advocacy has fueled a powerful partnership that has transformed countless lives.
Eat Breathe Thrive combines yoga, psycho-education, and peer support to ‘help people help one another’ on the path to recovery. Their vision is for all people to have access to the resources they need to recover, and thus be able to more meaningfully contribute to themselves, their loved ones, and their communities.
The Emilee Connection
Mission & Services
The Emilee Connection, Inc. is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) that supports adults who suffer from eating disorders by providing peer support groups, in person and virtually, for adults impacted by eating disorders and for family members. The Emilee Connection Founders, Linda and John Mazur, deliver presentations at conferences, schools, colleges, and community groups regarding the serious nature of eating disorders. They address the stigma associated with these conditions, emphasizing the necessity of awareness, education, early intervention, comprehensive treatment, peer support, and social connection for affected individuals and their families. They co-host an eating disorder and mental health podcast, Once Shattered: Picking-up the Pieces. In July 2023, Linda and John were honored to attend President Biden’s speech, “Improving Access to Mental Health Care” at the White House.
F.E.A.S.T.
Mission & Services
F.E.A.S.T. is a global non-profit organization, serving thousands of families of people affected by eating disorders from over 100 different countries throughout the world. Their free programs and services offer these families much needed support, information, skills, resources, and tools to help them on their journey. F.E.A.S.T. is about parents helping parents, about community and connection, about paying it forward, and about being there for families at a time when they need support the most.
Heads Up Guys
Mission & Services
What started as a simple survey in the waiting room of a doctor’s office, became the catalyst for creating HeadsUpGuys. Men clearly indicated they were having suicidal thoughts on the survey, yet failed to mention these thoughts to the doctor they were about to see.
Driven by the urgent need to support men’s mental health and prevent suicide, we created HeadsUpGuys—an anonymous, research-backed online resource. HeadsUpGuys offers practical self-care tips, screening tools, self-guided courses, inspirational recovery stories, and an international Therapist Directory, along with guidance on how to support the men in our lives.
The Hidden Opponent
Mission & Services
The Hidden Opponent is the leading non-profit organization for athlete mental health advocacy, education, and support. They provide accessible resources and unite a global community to empower athletes to prioritize their mental health and shatter the stigma within sports culture.
The Hidden Opponent creates long-lasting systemic change in sports through our dedicated mental health advocacy work and national presence of Campus Captain ambassadors. Their global community is a hub for all change-makers in sports and our resources remain responsive to the ongoing needs of student-athletes.
Mind Blossom
Mission & Services
Mind Blossom is on a mission to empower people’s mental wellbeing through mental health education and community engagement. We utilize evidence-based and data-driven methods to help people understand themselves and others in ways that are proven to enhance mental health and prevent mental illness. While we work with companies, schools, and other institutions, Mind Blossom’s overarching cause is to help develop and implement free of cost mental health education programs in underserved communities. All profits are reinvested in this cause.
No Shame on U
Mission & Services
No Shame On U is dedicated to eliminating the stigma associated with mental health conditions so the people who need the help will seek it, family members and friends will know how to provide proper support, and to save lives.
Project Unlaced
Mission & Services
Running in Silence
Mission & Services
Eating disorders affect 13.5% of all athletes.* Unfortunately, with no mandatory training on this topic for athletic staff, and with the stigma and misconceptions that surround this issue, athletes continue running in silence. Our mission is to raise awareness and offer actionable steps to address eating disorders in sports through engaging and motivational presentations. We inspire athletes to get professional support for their mental health struggles and help coaches navigate a piece of the sporting world that has been hidden for far too long. You can bring a presentation like this to your community, donate, or learn more at www.runninginsilence.org
Rural Minds
Mission & Services
Rural Minds is the only national 501c3 nonprofit focused on advocating for rural mental health equity, promoting mental wellness, and providing information and resources to confront rural mental health challenges and the stigma that surrounds mental illness. We serve the 46 million people living in farming, ranching, and agriculture communities, small towns, and isolated areas across rural America.
SoulPaws Recovery Project
Mission & Services
Founded in 2016, SoulPaws Recovery Project is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting children and adults with mental health challenges. SoulPaws unleashes the therapeutic power of the human-animal bond, blending clinician-led support with animal-assisted interventions.
Rock Recovery
Mission & Services
Rock Recovery (Rock) is a 501(c)(3) organization that bridges gaps in the treatment and understanding of eating disorders and mental health challenges. Rock was founded in Arlington, VA in 2009 by Dr. Carylynn Larson, an Industrial and Organizational Psychologist with experience overcoming disordered eating. Rock’s mission is to make life-saving eating disorder treatment and support accessible for all. Rock carries out this important work by providing weekly, sliding scale and insurance-covered outpatient individual and group therapy services across Virginia, Washington DC, and Maryland, along with free and low-cost support groups and community empowerment events to communities across the nation. Rock envisions a world where every person can access the care and community they need to find freedom and recover from disordered eating.
WithAll
Mission & Services
WithAll equips adults with tools to help kids build a positive body image and healthy relationship with food, while also providing financial assistance grants for those facing financial barriers to eating disorder recovery.