ASSOCIATION FOR SIZE DIVERSITY & HEALTH

The organization applies the Health at Every Size® framework through an intersectional lens, aligning with liberatory social justice movements such as Black liberation, fat liberation, crip/disability justice, and queer liberation. This approach aims to dismantle weight-centered policies and practices, eliminate BMI as a barrier to care, and promote healing-centered care and body autonomy for multiply marginalized people, ultimately striving for health equity for fat individuals.

The organization applies the Health at Every Size® framework through an intersectional lens, aligning with Black liberation, fat liberation, disability justice, and queer liberation movements to address systemic inequities and center healing, body autonomy, and justice for multiply marginalized communities.

The organization fosters accountable, transformative community spaces grounded in healing-centered care, conflict as growth, and an abundance mindset that prioritizes solidarity, mutual aid, reparations, and wealth redistribution.

The organization uses the Health at Every Size® (HAES®) Principles and its Framework of Care as core guideposts to inform all aspects of its work, including provider alignment, education, and advocacy, offering an alternative to weight-centered healthcare models.

The organization builds coalitions and relies on collective wisdom and collaborative action among fat activists, healthcare providers, and community members to dismantle BMI-based and weight-centered policies, particularly in healthcare, and to advance systemic change.

The organization builds coalitions and fosters accountable, collaborative community spaces—virtual and in-person—that center collective wisdom, interdependence, and the leadership of fat, Black, queer, gender-diverse, and disabled people to dismantle oppressive systems and advance fat liberation.

The organization actively advocates for the removal of weight stigma in healthcare, particularly in pediatric settings, to prevent harm. It also seeks to fill gaps in healthcare education regarding weight bias and challenges care providers to confront and transform their own biases, aiming to increase the number of inclusive and evidence-based care providers for people of all sizes.

The organization developed a non-hierarchical Framework of Care with ten interdependent elements to guide healthcare providers in becoming HAES®-aligned, promoting ethical, effective, and inclusive care for fat people.

The organization operates with an abundance mindset by prioritizing accessibility, equitable compensation, and resource redistribution—through reduced-rate memberships and mutual aid—ensuring that those most impacted by medical fatphobia, particularly BIPOC and low-income individuals, can access its resources and leadership opportunities.

The organization removes barriers to learning about Health at Every Size® by offering accessible, supportive, and high-quality educational experiences, prioritizing inclusivity in membership and leadership development to increase the number of size-inclusive care providers.

The organization emphasizes collaboration, cooperation, and interdependence, relying on collective thinking and action from diverse stakeholders. It fosters community engagement through established agreements, prioritizing accountability, embracing conflict as a sign of growth, and maintaining a zero-tolerance policy for oppression to create inclusive and impactful spaces.

The organization promotes healing-centered care and body autonomy by challenging weight stigma in healthcare, particularly in pediatric settings, and by developing and disseminating a non-hierarchical Framework of Care to guide providers in delivering trauma-informed, HAES®-aligned, and anti-oppressive services.

The organization uses the Health at Every Size® (HAES®) Principles and Framework of Care as foundational, enduring guideposts that inform all aspects of its work, including provider alignment, education, and advocacy, to replace weight-centered approaches with ethical, evidence-based care for fat people.

The organization applies the Health at Every Size® framework through an intersectional lens and aligns with liberatory movements—including Black, fat, disability, and queer liberation—to address systemic inequities and advance health equity for fat, Black, Indigenous, disabled, and multiply marginalized people.

The organization aims to remove barriers to learning about Health at Every Size® through accessible and supportive learning experiences. It prioritizes learning from and is guided by Black, fat thought-leaders and a diverse team of leaders, while also offering equitable compensation and reduced-rate memberships to ensure accessibility for marginalized groups.

The organization actively promotes and supports adherence to the Health at Every Size® Principles and Framework of Care, ensuring its application in healthcare practice and protecting it from misuse. This framework serves as a guiding philosophy for all organizational work, advocating for an alternative to weight-centered approaches and establishing a precedent for quality care for fat individuals.

Through trademark protection, licensing, and vetting, the organization safeguards the integrity of the community-developed Health at Every Size® framework from co-optation, particularly by the weight loss industry, and ensures that its use aligns with HAES® principles and values.

The organization protects the integrity of the Health at Every Size® framework through trademark protection, licensing, and vetting to prevent misuse—especially by the weight loss industry—and to ensure that services and materials using its trademarks align with HAES® principles and community values.