beat Projects

Here at beat we have a team that work on different projects – to investigate the needs of different populations of people, and to create new services and resources to help meet these needs.

To find out more about the projects currently running, please follow the links at the end of each paragraph.

Educate Too

Educate Too is a new project which aims to provide a whole school hub of information to secondary schools to prevent eating disorders.

Educate Too will create strategies to boost self-esteem, provide coping strategies, and identify ways children and families can get support.

For more information about the project, please click here. 

beat Participates

Beat participates: engaging people with eating disorders and their families and carers in developing services in their local area

•  Beat assured Quality Mark: service users and carers assessing services and helping them to improve the treatment experience
•  Creating new groups: supporting you to create new support services that are what you need in your area, including self help groups and mentoring schemes
•  Community volunteers: taking part in local, regional and national consultations and working with health care professionals to improve eating disorder services

To find out more about this project, click here

Carers’ Project– making new resources and services for the family and friends of people with an eating disorder.

•  A NEW CARERS’ FORUM 
  • “87% of carers think that services for them need improving” 
• NEW INFORMATION PAGES ON THE WEBSITE
  • “different types of carers need to be acknowledged, not just parents of teenage girls suffering an eating disorder, but partners, friends, grandparents, boyfriends, children, and others too”
• NEW LEAFLETS 
  • “the word ‘carer’ itself is very confusing and probably puts some people off” 
• CAMPAIGNS

To find out more about the Project for Carers, what we have done so far, and what is to come in the future, please click here!

Recovery Project – supporting young people working towards recovery.

• As part of the Recovery Project we are currently piloting an online Recovery Club, to offer support to young people wanting to initiate the recovery process.
• The Recovery Club gives sufferers the opportunity to gain peer support from other young people affected by eating disorders in an online group setting. 

If you are interested in what takes place in a Recovery Club, take a look inside and browse through some of the transcripts by clicking here!

• Aside from the Recovery Club beat has been looking at other ways of expanding upon and improving our recovery resources.
• Over 74% of the 514 beat service users who responded to our ‘Recovery Resources’ questionnaire wanted to see a Recovery ‘Question and Answers’ page.
• We have taken some of the questions posed by people who responded to this survey and put them to healthcare professionals, young people in recovery and members of the beat team.

To see what they said, please click here!

Siblings’ Project – making new resources and services for the brothers and sisters of people with an eating disorder.

• NEW LEAFLETS 
  • “97% of siblings had not come across any services specifically for them before”
• NEW INFORMATION PAGES ON THE WEBSITE 
• “many siblings aren’t told anything about what is going on to ‘protect’ them, but this just makes them feel more confused and anxious”

To find out more about the project for siblings, what we have done so far, and what is to come in the future, please click here!

Migrant Workers Project - making new resources and services for migrant workers affected by eating disorders.

• NEW INFORMATION PAGES ON THE WEBSITE
  • Mental illnesses are increased in families who have moved to the UK from abroad. Our website will help migrant families find the support and information they need.
• NEW LEAFLETS
  • Our new leaflets – available in Portuguese, Polish and Lithuanian – will aim to raise awareness of eating disorders and beat’s services amongst migrant communities.
• TRAINING
  • The project will be working to provide free training to frontline staff working with the migrant community – including health care professionals, youth workers and schools. The training will help create understanding and awareness of eating disorders.

For more information about this project, please click here!