Lifelines Foundation for Eating Disorders

Mission, Goals, and Objectives

Lifelines Foundation for Eating Disorders promotes education, awareness, and prevention of eating disorders throughout Texas and the nation.

Lifelines Foundation is dedicated to recovery and hope for the person suffering from an eating disorder and for their family. Our resources and support allow families and victims to make accurate and informed decisions on treatment.  We offer resources for treatment that may require the collaboration of an individual therapist, a family therapist, a dietitian, a medical doctor, a psychiatrist, and school personnel.

Lifelines Foundation is dedicated to working for insurance coverage of eating disorder treatment.  We believe that this disease affects not only mentally but also physically, with complications that can result in death.  The stigma surrounding mental illness forces families to deal with shame and guilt blocking avenues to recovery.

We believe that families have a right to insurance coverage for eating disorders with the same parity as any physical illness. Lifelines Foundation supports the revision to the Texas Mental Health Parity Act..

Lifelines Foundation is dedicated to creating a referral network for therapists and physicians specializing in eating disorder treatment. We created the first dietitian referral network resource for eating disorders in Texas.

Lifelines Foundation believes that early intervention through education is necessary to help stem the epedimic affecting males and females alike.  Through our educational materials, our dvd, resources, in-school workshops and professional workshops, we are establishing eating disorder educational awareness programs for K-12 grades, for parents and professionals.

Lifelines is dedicated to joining with national and state organizations to be the "watchdogs" of media messages. We dispute the media image of how young women and men "should" look. Magazines, billboards, marketing campaigns that promote "thinness" as the road to success and happiness, are sending 3000 messages to young people every day.

Lifelines is dedicated to the establishment of an acute, in-patient, long term residential treatment facility in Texas utlizing the most effective methods for treatment.