Helpenstell Foundation helps fund eating disorders study
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By Deirdre Cox Baker / Quad-City Times | Tuesday, May 06, 2008 |
A $50,000 grant from the Amy Helpenstell Foundation will further the efforts of the Eating Disorders Consortium, a Quad-City area effort to educate the community and help those who have the disorders.
The grant goes to the Robert Young Center for Community Mental Health, based in Rock Island.
Amy Helpenstell, who was a top student at Rock Island High School and Augustana College, died in 2003 of complications from anorexia nervosa. She made arrangements in her will to provide assets for a charitable foundation to benefit a 60-mile radius around the Quad-Cities.
In March, the consortium announced the results of a groundbreaking community survey that showed Quad-City residents have a basic understanding of eating disorders.
The funds will be used to poll area doctors who treat the disorders and to compile a list of best practices, said Susan Skora, the president and CEO of the Community Foundation of the Great River Bend, the administrative arm of the Helpenstell Foundation. National experts also will be invited to offer advanced educational techniques, and a community symposium is being considered.
“We are looking for ways to have an impact,” Skora said.
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