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🔎 Want to participate in research and help strengthen the eating disorder sector?Explore NEDC’s online study database, w...
21/09/2026

🔎 Want to participate in research and help strengthen the eating disorder sector?

Explore NEDC’s online study database, which brings together a diverse range of research opportunities across Australia: nedc.com.au/research/participate-in-a-study

📝 Recruiting for your research?

Include your research opportunity in our database by completing our online form: nedc.com.au/research/share-your-research-study

NEDC brings together research, practice, policy and lived experience across Australia’s eating disorders sector. By sharing your research study with NEDC, you can reach a broad and diverse national audience of health professionals, researchers, lived experience advocates, service providers and policymakers through our member network and communication channels.

Join NEDC for an engaging session on bringing the Eating Disorder Safe Principles to life!Wednesday 21 Oct 2026 | 12-1pm...
16/09/2026

Join NEDC for an engaging session on bringing the Eating Disorder Safe Principles to life!

Wednesday 21 Oct 2026 | 12-1pm AEDT

During this forum we will explore practical examples, shared learnings and officially launch the Eating Disorder Safe First 2000 Days Implementation Plan.

As an initiative of National Eating Disorders Strategy 2023–2033, the Eating Disorder Safe Principles provide a shared foundation for preventing eating disorders and reducing harm. Together, we’ll explore what the Principles mean for our everyday work and hear from people putting them into practice across a range of settings.

The session will introduce the Eating Disorder Safe First 2000 Days Implementation Plan, which translates lived experience, expertise and evidence into coordinated action across five key settings that shape children’s and families’ experiences during the first 2000 days:

• Fertility and Perinatal Healthcare
• Child and Family Healthcare
• Early Childhood Education and Care
• Family Services
• Children’s Media and Public Messaging

Whether you’re discovering ED Safe for the first time or building on work already underway, join us to connect, hear from leading voices in the sector and explore how you can put the Principles into action.

Register today via: https://butterfly-org-au.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2oNiq69LT6qX00tG-NLgmw #/registration

Last week, during Body Image and Eating Disorders Awareness Week, NEDC joined our colleagues in the Eating Disorders All...
16/09/2026

Last week, during Body Image and Eating Disorders Awareness Week, NEDC joined our colleagues in the Eating Disorders Alliance in Canberra for the Parliamentary Friends of Eating Disorder Awareness event.

Thank you to the Parliamentary Friends co-chairs, Zali Steggall OAM MP, Andrew Wallace MP and Susan Templeman MP, for hosting the event and their sustained cross-party attention to eating disorder awareness.

We were also pleased to be joined by Emma McBride MP, Assistant Minister for Mental Health and Su***de Prevention, alongside parliamentarians from across the political spectrum, to discuss what is needed to strengthen Australia’s eating disorder system of care.

Together, the Alliance presented the One Voice Ask, calling on the Federal Government to invest $28.7 million to strengthen eating disorder prevention, treatment and support across Australia.

Australia has a coordinated and increasingly connected eating disorder sector, with a growing range of services, programs, professional networks and lived experience leadership. We also have a clear roadmap: the National Eating Disorders Strategy 2023–2033, developed with the sector and setting out 141 Priority Actions to make a stepped system of care a reality across the country.

Too many people are still unable to find the support they need, when and where they need it. For families and supporters, navigating care can be confusing and exhausting, particularly when the connections between services are unclear.

The EDA’s One Voice Ask aligns with the Strategy and calls for sustained investment to strengthen the workforce, build on proven services, improve navigation and access to care, and raise community understanding of eating disorders.

Eating disorders are serious, treatable illnesses. With continued coordinated action and investment, we can ensure people can access the right support, at the right time, wherever they live.

🔹 To view the full EDA media release, head to: https://butterfly.org.au/news/greater-eating-disorder-action-needed-alliance-calls-for-stronger-government-support/
🔹 To learn more about the National Eating Disorders strategy, head to: www.nedc.com.au/national-strategy

🧠🗣️ The 2026 Australian and New Zealand Paediatric Eating Disorders Specialty Clinical Services Symposium is next month!...
15/09/2026

🧠🗣️ The 2026 Australian and New Zealand Paediatric Eating Disorders Specialty Clinical Services Symposium is next month!

A valuable opportunity for clinicians and services working in paediatric eating disorders to connect, share knowledge and explore innovative approaches to care for children and young people.

📅 30–31 October 2026
📍 Pullman East Melbourne
🎟️ Registration now open

Learn more and register: https://www.ivvy.com.au/event/ANZPAED27/

Today, members of the Eating Disorders Alliance (EDA) met with Federal Parliamentarians in Canberra to advocate for mean...
10/09/2026

Today, members of the Eating Disorders Alliance (EDA) met with Federal Parliamentarians in Canberra to advocate for meaningful action on eating disorder reform, during Body Image and Eating Disorder Awareness Week (7-13 September).

Our message to the Government is clear: Australia already has the roadmap. The National Eating Disorders Strategy 2023-2033 outlines the system of care required and the actions needed to achieve it. Through the One Voice Campaign, we are calling for practical, evidence-informed investments to protect effective services, address gaps in community-based care, strengthen workforce capacity, improve service navigation, and support earlier intervention.

These are achievable reforms that will help ensure more people can access the support they need, when they need it.

We thank the members of Parliamentary Friends of Eating Disorder Awareness, including Co-Chairs Zali Steggall OAM MP, Andrew Wallace MP and Susan Templeman, for their ongoing support and commitment to raising awareness and driving change.

EDA Members:
ANZAED Butterfly Foundation Eating Disorders Families Australia Eating Disorders Neurodiversity Australia Eating Disorders Qld Eating Disorders Victoria The Embrace Collective InsideOut Institute for Eating Disorders National Eating Disorders Collaboration

On World Su***de Prevention Day, 10 September, we remember those who have died by su***de, acknowledge people living wit...
10/09/2026

On World Su***de Prevention Day, 10 September, we remember those who have died by su***de, acknowledge people living with suicidal distress, and recognise the families, kin, friends, carers and communities who are also deeply affected. 🧡

Within the eating disorders community, we also recognise the complex and often interconnected relationship between eating disorders and suicidality. There is no single pathway or experience, and suicidal distress can be shaped by a range of intersecting individual, social and systemic factors.

As part of our commitment to strengthening understanding and responses at this intersection, NEDC recently partnered with the National Su***de Prevention Office to bring together people with lived and living experience, clinicians, researchers, service and policy leaders from across the eating disorders and su***de prevention sectors.

Together, we explored how prevention and responses to suicidality among people experiencing eating disorders can be strengthened, including the need for more coordinated, person-centred and evidence-informed approaches, and stronger connections between sectors and services.

The discussions reinforced an important message: people experiencing eating disorders and suicidality need systems that can respond to the whole person, rather than requiring one experience to be separated from the other.

This World Su***de Prevention Day, we remain committed to working alongside people with lived and living experience and our partners across sectors to strengthen prevention, support and care for people experiencing eating disorders and suicidal distress.

🔗 Learn more about NEDC's broader Strategy in Action via: https://nedc.com.au/national-strategy/implementation/strategy-in-action

Culture needs to be part of the conversation. There is no single way to experience health and wellbeing. Our culture can...
09/09/2026

Culture needs to be part of the conversation.

There is no single way to experience health and wellbeing.

Our culture can shape how we understand food, bodies, health, family, community and care. It can influence what wellbeing means to us, how we talk about it and what we need to feel safe and supported.

For Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, wellbeing is holistic and deeply interconnected with family, kinship, community, culture, Country and spirituality. Culture is not simply something to consider alongside health and wellbeing. It can be a source of strength, connection and healing.

Across all cultures, our experiences, values and traditions matter. Yet the stories we are sold about ‘wellness’ don’t always reflect this diversity.

This Body Image and Eating Disorders Awareness Week, we’re encouraging everyone to think beyond a one-size-fits-all idea of wellness.

Creating safer, more inclusive conversations about health, food, minds and bodies means listening to different cultural perspectives, challenging assumptions about what ‘healthy’ or ‘well’ is supposed to look like, and ensuring people and communities have a voice in defining wellbeing for themselves.

Because if our conversations about wellness don’t make space for culture, they don’t make space for everyone.

Explore these resources:
🔸First Nations wellbeing: teams.public.onecdn.static.microsoft/evergreen-assets/safelinks/2/atp-safelinks.html
🔸Understanding social and emotional wellbeing: https://www.gayaadhuwi.org.au/gayaa-dhuwi-declaration
🔸Body image and eating disorders: https://butterfly.org.au/get-involved/campaigns/everybodyisdeadly/

Artwork: Country Tide Lines by Bigi Nagala.

Building your Media Literacy Toolkit: Body Image and Eating Disorders Awareness Week (BIEDAW) 2026 Webinar. 🧰As part of ...
08/09/2026

Building your Media Literacy Toolkit: Body Image and Eating Disorders Awareness Week (BIEDAW) 2026 Webinar. 🧰

As part of BIEDAW 2026, Eating Disorders Victoria (EDV) and the National Eating Disorder Collaboration (NEDC) are offering a free webinar to the community about media literacy. 📱

The webinar aims to support individuals in developing media literacy skills to navigate media messages and build a more supportive relationship with body image. 💭

During this webinar, we will explore:
• How media messages can influence wellbeing
• The ways that media content is designed to influence us
• Practical strategies for building your media literacy toolkit
• How to recognise and respond to unhelpful media messages
• Where to find further information and support

Through attending the webinar, you will be able to:
• Develop a greater understanding of how the media can influence body image, wellbeing, and the way we feel about ourselves​
• Recognise common media tactics that promote diet culture and unrealistic appearance ideals​
• Learn about practical strategies for critically engaging with media content ​
• Learn how to respond to unhelpful media messages and where to go for support

Whether you're hoping to better understand the media messages that we all encounter daily, support your body image and wellbeing, or build a toolkit for taking care of yourself or responding to unhelpful messages, this webinar will provide the practical tools and skills to help you navigate the media landscape with greater awareness and confidence. 🌿

There is still time, register today via:
https://events.humanitix.com/media-literacy-webinar-biedaw-2026

This Body Image and Eating Disorder Awareness Week, we’re Redefining ‘Wellness’ - and questioning the stories we’re sold...
07/09/2026

This Body Image and Eating Disorder Awareness Week, we’re Redefining ‘Wellness’ - and questioning the stories we’re sold about health and our bodies. 🤔

1 in 10 people in Australia will experience an eating disorder in their lifetime. It could impact your sibling, parent, friend – or even yourself.

And the biggest risk factor? Dieting. The very thing that wellness culture keeps selling us. 👀

Join us this BIEDAW as we unpack the harms of wellness culture, and ask: what does true wellness really mean?

Learn more via https://butterfly.org.au/get-involved/campaigns/biedaw-2026/

On Tuesday, NEDC and North Western Melbourne Primary Health Network brought together key stakeholders from across the ea...
03/09/2026

On Tuesday, NEDC and North Western Melbourne Primary Health Network brought together key stakeholders from across the eating disorder sector for a collaborative workshop focused on strengthening care across the region. 🤝

From early identification and service navigation to stronger connections between services, the collaborative workshop was an opportunity to share ideas, identify priorities and think about what’s needed to help people access the right care at the right time... 🎯

These conversations and insights will help inform the next phase of RCRP and support a more connected, person-centred approach to eating disorder care across North Western Melbourne. 🌱

Head to https://nedc.com.au/phn/rcrp to learn more about Right Care Right Place initiatives across Australia.

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