How is Project HEAL making change happen?

Our Programs

Treatment Placement

Project HEAL offers our beneficiaries free treatment through our HEALers Circle members, the largest network of facilities and providers at every level of care. Through these partnerships, we are the only major nonprofit in the U.S. providing access to free treatment to individuals with eating disorders who are uninsured or underinsured.

Insurance Navigation

Project HEAL’s insurance navigation specialists and resource guides help individuals understand their often confusing insurance benefits and advocate on their behalf to get their treatment covered.

Cash Assistance

We offer one-time cash assistance to individuals who are able to demonstrate financial need so that they can unlock their benefits ande pay for other tertiary expenses associated with going to treatment.

Clinical Assessment

Project HEAL provides free, impartial, culturally-competent, and compassionate 1-hour phone assessments to anyone in the U.S. who might have an eating disorder. A thorough, formal, and free diagnosis can open the door to starting some types of treatment more quickly, and point people toward the specific resources they need.

Our Values

Equity Matters

We believe that equity is a restorative process, not an event. In contrast to equality, equity is aimed at a just distribution of resources that acknowledges inherent inequity in our existing systems. We intentionally prioritize those who have been excluded from or harmed by the eating disorder field due to biases like racism, weight discrimination, transphobia, homophobia, ableism, healthism, and classism. 

Healing is Possible

We believe that healing from an eating disorder is possible with access to resources and opportunities. Project HEAL has intentionally chosen to use the word “healing” rather than “recovery” because recovery implies a regaining of something that was lost.  We acknowledge that far too many do not have access to the resources, support, or safety that are required to heal - and even when they do, healing is nonlinear and unique to each individual.

Your Body is Yours

We are committed to taking actions that push back against systems that make it less safe for some people to be fully embodied than others. Beyond body positivity, Project HEAL aligns with body acceptance and body liberation movements. We are actively working to unlearn and resist value systems rooted in white supremacy, fatphobia, gender binaries, diet culture, and perfectionism. 

We're Better Together

Eating disorders thrive in isolation, and we believe that the true healing of ourselves, our bodies, the eating disorder field, and our society at large can only happen in the context of connection and community. With the support of our community, Project HEAL can more effectively achieve our vision of a world where every person with an eating disorder has the resources and opportunities they need to heal.