Be Body Positive
A new website designed to help young people build a positive relationship with food and their bodies.
For the past year ELBA has been working with partners, Barnardo’s, East London Foundation Trust, North East London Foundation Trust and Infused Media, on a NHSX Digital Health Partnerships Award funded project to create a website packed with engaging and accessible resources to support young people with disordered eating.
Disordered eating – a term used to describe eating difficulties that don’t require a clinical diagnosis – is becoming more common and can often be the first signs of someone developing an eating disorder. With eating disorder diagnoses on the rise in the UK, the need to intervene before diagnosis has become a matter of urgency for the NHS.
Be Body Positive seeks to address this issue by providing extra support to young people, parents/carers and health professionals. ELFT clinicians have worked with experts from Barnardo’s and Infused Media to develop the content, ranging from videos and quizzes, to stories and coping strategies. Local young people have played an integral role in the project, from brainstorming the name of the site, to the design.
Ian Parkes, CEO of East London Business Alliance said:
“There has been a big increase in the reports of young people struggling with wellbeing and mental health. The earlier we can get reassurance and support to them, the better the outcome. Young people are digital natives, and this new initiative will get support to them in a familiar format. Where young people or their families are digitally excluded – we will try to address that as well.”
ELBA, in conjunction with Society Links (Tower Hamlets) and Thames Life (Barking & Dagenham) will promote the roll out of the website after its launch in early 2023 throughout our partner organisations in East London.
To know more and book a presentation please email tiziana.silvestre@elba-1.org.uk.
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