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Support for those experiencing an eating disorder, friends, family, carers and professionals
Workshops and training for teachers, professionals, students and parents
Support groups for people with eating disorders, their family, friends and carers
Programs providing guidance, tools and strategies to support recovery
Specialised and intensive treatment programs
Percentage of people with an eating disorder in treatment
Approximate number of people with an eating disorder in Australia
Percentage of people with an eating disorder that are male in Australia
Estimated socio-economic cost of eating disorders in Australia
Body image one of the top 3 issues of concern for young people
Approximate young people reached through Butterfly Education body esteem programs
Join Australia's largest positive body image initiative every SEPTEMBER and help boost young people’s BODY CONFIDENCE.
Love Your Body Week (LYBW) is Butterfly's annual awareness campaign supported by Sportsgirl. With so many young people struggling with body image, Butterfly is asking schools to jump on board to help promote body acceptance and to celebrate diversity.
BEST PART?
It is fun, engaging, FREE and super easy to participate!
To register your school or organisation, follow the easy steps below!
STEP 1: CHOOSE what activities you’d like to do. You can choose one or both of the activities listed below.
a. Facilitate a Teacher-led Workshop(s): A choice of ready-to-use materials for 11-14 and 14+ years is available.
b. Organise a Dress to Express Awareness Day for your whole school. Connecting the positive and empowering messages of LYBW to everyone in your school community.
NB: Everything you need and further information to help you implement these activities is supplied during registration. A free webinar is also available to help you feel confident to facilitate the teacher-led workshops.
STEP 2: REGISTER your school in the link below.
If your school has participated before you will still need to register to receive updated materials.
Our annual LYBW survey shows Australians worry more about how their body looks rather than all the incredible things it enables them to do! LYBW encourages everyone to change appearance based conversations at school, home, work and online.
In September 2018 we revealed the results of our National Body Image Survey. If you’d like to learn more about the campaign and what our survey found please CLICK HERE.
Contact Helen Bird on: helen.bird@thebutterflyfoundation.org.au or (02) 8456 3908
LYBW officially runs 3 – 9th September but feel free to celebrate anytime during the month. Don’t forget to hashtag #loveyourbodyweek
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