Walden Names Haines Prevention Education Specialist

The Walden Center for Education and Research and Walden Behavioral Care of Waltham, Mass., today announced that Stephanie Haines of Peterborough, N.H., has joined Walden Center as a Prevention Education Specialist.

She will be responsible for programs aimed at preventing and raising awareness of eating disorders, including Walden Center’s School-Based Eating Disorder Prevention Program, which provides educational programs to schools and other organizations throughout New England.

Before joining Walden, she was a Senior Health Educator and Prevention Specialist at FCD Educational Services in Newton, where she provided education to students in 50 countries about the prevention of alcohol, tobacco and drug abuse. Earlier in her career, Haines was a licensed occupational therapist in the Newport, N.H., school district.

She earned her master’s degree from Plymouth (N.H.) State University, where she has served as a graduate assistant to Margaret Burckes-Miller, founder and director of the university’s Eating Disorders Institute. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Granite State College in Concord, N.H., and an associate’s degree from New Hampshire Technical College in Concord.

About Walden Center for Education and Research and Walden Behavioral Care

The Walden Center for Education and Research, the non-profit organization of Walden Behavioral Care, is devoted to improving the quality of life for those who suffer from eating disorders. Walden Center is committed to discovering effective treatments, providing education and prevention to the community around eating disorders and body image and ultimately decreasing the number of people who suffer from eating disorders. Walden Center for Education and Research, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. More information about its people, programs and mission is available at www.WaldenCenter.org.

Walden Behavioral Care, LLC of Waltham, Mass., a private psychiatric hospital, treats eating disorders and psychiatric disorders. It is the only facility in New England that provides inpatient, residential, partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient care for patients with eating disorders. Walden also has satellite eating disorder clinics in Braintree, Peabody, Northampton and Worcester, Mass., and South Windsor, Conn. Additional information is available on Walden’s website at www.WaldenBehavioralCare.com.

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