Training Summary:  

The need to incorporate social justice perspectives and practices in our understandings of and approach to eating struggles is irrefutable. When issues around eating occurs in marginalized people, the dynamics have increasing complexity due to being marginalized, isolated, or stigmatized. Marginalized people seeking professional help may find services unequipped to provide the support for their intersecting identities. Most support services are constructed for cisgender heterosexual affluent, thin, able bodied women and cannot offer appropriate services for a more diverse client population.  Support programs, advocates and care professionals need to work together to ensure all youth with similar struggles can access safe and intersectional support options. The workshop offers practical support strategies through a social justice lens. The workshop asks participants to be reflective and open, examining our own privileges and power in order to move forward to ensure equity amongst support systems, especially for marginalized populations.

 

Class Objectives:

1.       Participants will be able to identify some of the research/practice gaps with regard to eating struggles and support strategies.

2.       Participants will be able to identify the need for holistic, social justice informed conceptualizations of support strategies amongst youth.

3.       Participants will be able to identify ways to translate awareness into action in our understandings of and approaches to support youth with eating struggles.