Chase Bannister, Founder of Veritas Collaborative, is Senior Vice President for Community Engagement of Accanto Health, the parent company of The Emily Program and Veritas Collaborative.
Chase is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and is credentialed as a Certified Eating Disorder Specialist. He is Principal of Bannister Consultancy, a firm committed to thought-leadership for healthcare strategy & civic engagement, and formerly served Veritas Collaborative as Chief Strategy & Clinical Officer. In 2006, he developed the clinical program for CRC Health Group’s first startup residential eating disorders treatment center.
Chase’s career is marked by achievements in many arenas, including federal legislative initiatives, standards-of-care creation, clinical program innovation, healthcare entrepreneurship, professional education, advocacy, and public awareness campaigns. He played a significant role in ensuring the inclusion of eating disorders policy within The 21st Century Cures Act—the first acknowledgment of eating disorders in the history of federal statutory law. A highly respected speaker, Chase appears regularly on the national stage to present on eating disorders, healthcare policy, and ethics.
Chase is Immediate Past President of the Board of Directors for the Eating Disorders Coalition for Research, Policy & Action. He is also an active member of the Academy for Eating Disorders and the Eating Disorders Leadership Summit, as well as the REDC Consortium, chairing the Special Investigatory Committee on Ethics.
A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Wofford College, Chase was the first to earn concurrent graduate degrees in Clinical Social Work & Divinity from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School and Duke University. He is the recipient of The Arthur B. & Ida Maie Rivers Award for Integrity, Virtue, Gentleness, and Character, as well as The L. Harris Chewning Award for Academic Scholarship and Intellectual & Moral Integrity.
Advocacy and You
Join us for a complimentary continuing education event hosted by Accanto Health. Presented by Chase Bannister, MDIV, MSW, LCSW, CEDS.
Participants will learn how clinicians, researchers and advocates with lived experience have influenced public awareness and public policy as it relates to early intervention, access to care, and treatment of eating disorders. Participants will learn a history of advocacy in the field of eating disorders, the ethical imperative for legislative advocacy in clinical work, and forward-looking pathways toward civic engagement & advocacy.
Accanto Health is a...Read morepproved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Accanto Health maintains responsibility for this program and its content. This program provides 2.0 continuing education credits.
This activity has been submitted for approval as a continuing professional education activity by the Commission on Dietetic Registration, the credentialing agency for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
Accanto Health has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP no.7166. Programs that do not qualify are clearly identified. Accanto Health is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
You are responsible for your individual requirements as stipulated by your licensing agency. Please contact your individual licensing board/regulatory agency to review continuing education requirements for licensure renewal.
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Learning Objectives
- Identify the legislation that acknowledged eating disorders for the first time in federal law
- Describe two or more fields of clinical practice wherein providers are ethically bound to participate in legislative/governmental advocacy
- Describe two or more ways to be involved in current advocacy efforts
Learning Levels
- Intermediate level course
Thursday, July 14, 2022
Live Interactive Webinar
11:00 AM CDT - 01:00 PM CDT
Register for this Webinar
EARN 2 CE Credit Hours
About the speaker
Chase Bannister, MDIV, MSW, LCSW, CEDS
Senior Vice President of Community Engagement
CE Information - Earn 2 CE Credit Hours
CE Approvals
Commission on Dietetic Registration
This activity has been approved as a continuing professional education activity by the Commission on Dietetic Registration, the credentialing agency for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
American Psychological Association
Accanto Health is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Accanto Health maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
National Board for Certified Counselors
Accanto Health has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP no.7166. Programs that do not qualify are clearly identified. Accanto Health is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
CE Process Info
A continuing education certificate for the event will be obtained using the website, CE-Go. After the event, you will receive an email containing a link to CE-Go. (This link will be sent to the email account you used to register for the event).
Upon accessing the CE-Go website, you will be able to:
• Complete evaluation forms for the event
• Download your continuing education certificate in a PDF format
If you have any questions or concerns regarding the CE-Go process, please contact CE-Go at 888-498-5578 or by email at support@ce-go.com
