Valerie Staples and Melinda Wallpe

Presentation Title: NOTRE DAME IMAGE: What’s the Real Story on Campus and How Can Students, Faculty and Staff Impact Positive Changes

Workshop Abstract:What’s the Real Story on Campus will provide a place for students, faculty and staff to share their thoughts and experiences of campus culture and body image. The workshop will provide information and data regarding body image issues students face here at ND along with an opportunity for group discussion and collaboration to generate ways that the ND community can impact the culture in a positive way, as well as challenge male and female students to accept and appreciate their bodies. Campus resources to assist students with body image concerns will be outlined.

Presented by: Valerie Staples, MSW, LCSW, Coordinator of Eating Disorder Services at the University of Notre Dame Counseling Center and Melinda Wallpe, MA, Ed.s., Pre-Doctoral Intern at the University of Notre Dame Counseling Center

Biographies:Valerie Staples is a licensed clinical social worker who specializes in the treatment of eating disorders. She is currently working at the University of Notre Dame Counseling Center as the Coordinator for Eating Disorder Services. Previously, Valerie worked for 12 years as the director of an intensive eating disorders treatment program and then in private practice. She is a member of the Eating Disorders Task Force of Indiana and has lectured on eating disorders and body image at conferences locally and nationally. Valerie received her BS from Manchester College and her MSSW from the Kent School of Social Work at the University of Louisville.