Provides intensive rehabilitation through a community-based team approach which integrates professional support with self-help and social support from peers, family and friends.
Provides educational, referral and research services to people struggling with disordered eating, their support networks, community based organizations, students, educators and professionals working in the area.
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Provides training for future school outreach speakers. Discusses signs and symptoms of eating disorders, contributing factors, body image and self-esteem, dieting and nutrition, and finding support.
Provides counselling and treatment for individuals suffering from anorexia, bulimia and related disorders in a home-like atmosphere, significantly different from the institutional format of traditional hospitals and clinics.
Focuses on the issue of disordered eating, using a community development approach, in Halifax. Offers a peer support group, workshops on disordered eating and related issues, and a resource centre equipped with a lending library.
Explores how women can empower themselves to eat without guilt, to accept their bodies, and to engage in changing the actual conditions of their lives.
