---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 290bb–45"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "290bb–45"
heading: "Center of Excellence for Eating Disorders for education and training on eating disorders"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/290bb-45"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter III–A — Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration"
  - "Part B — Centers and Programs"
  - "Subpart 3 — center for mental health services"
---

# §290bb–45. Center of Excellence for Eating Disorders for education and training on eating disorders

- (a) **In general—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c), acting through the Assistant [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c), shall maintain, by competitive grant or contract, a Center of Excellence for Eating Disorders (referred to in this section as the “Center”) to improve the identification of, interventions for, and [treatment](/usc/42/11851.md?p=11) of eating disorders in a manner that is developmentally, culturally, and linguistically appropriate.
- (b) **Subgrants and subcontracts—** The Center shall coordinate and implement the activities under [subsection (c)](#c), in whole or in part, which may include by awarding competitive subgrants or subcontracts—
  - (1) across geographical regions; and
  - (2) in a manner that is not duplicative.
- (c) **Activities—** The Center—
  - (1) shall—
    - (A) provide training and technical assistance, including for—
      - (i) primary care and mental health [providers](/usc/42/299b–21.md?p=8) to carry out screening, brief intervention, and referral to [treatment](/usc/42/11851.md?p=11) for individuals experiencing, or at risk for, eating disorders; and
      - (ii) other paraprofessionals and relevant individuals providing nonclinical community [services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) to identify and support individuals with, or at disproportionate risk for, eating disorders;
    - (B) facilitate the development of, and provide training materials to, [health care providers](/usc/42/300aa–33.md?p=1) (including primary care and mental health professionals) regarding the effective [treatment](/usc/42/11851.md?p=11) and ongoing support of individuals with eating disorders, including children and marginalized populations at disproportionate risk for eating disorders;
    - (C) collaborate and coordinate, as appropriate, with other centers of excellence, technical assistance centers, and psychiatric consultation lines of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health [Services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) Administration and the Health Resources and [Services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) Administration regarding eating disorders;
    - (D) coordinate with the [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the [Administrator](/usc/42/4005.md?p=1) of the Health Resources and [Services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) Administration, and other Federal [agencies](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1), as appropriate, to disseminate training to primary care and mental [health care providers](/usc/42/300aa–33.md?p=1); and
    - (E) support other activities, as determined appropriate by the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c); and
  - (2) may—
    - (A) support the integration of protocols pertaining to screening, brief intervention, and referral to [treatment](/usc/42/11851.md?p=11) for individuals experiencing, or at risk for, eating disorders, with health information technology systems;
    - (B) develop and provide training materials to [health care providers](/usc/42/300aa–33.md?p=1), including primary care and mental health [providers](/usc/42/299b–21.md?p=8), to provide screening, brief intervention, and referral to [treatment](/usc/42/11851.md?p=11) for members of the military and veterans experiencing, or at risk for, eating disorders; and
    - (C) consult, as appropriate, with the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) of Defense and the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) of Veterans Affairs on prevention, identification, intervention for, and [treatment](/usc/42/11851.md?p=11) of eating disorders.
- (d) **Authorization of appropriations—** To carry out this section, there is authorized to be appropriated $1,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2023 through 2027.

## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title V, § 520N, as added Pub. L. 117–328, div. FF, title I, § 1131, Dec. 29, 2022, 136 Stat. 5655.)