- 2025 -

Youth Eating Disorder
Prevention and Recovery

Project Details

The Women’s Health Clinic in Winnipeg, Manitoba is an inclusive, feminist community health clinic. Building on the success of their Provincial Eating Disorder Recovery and Prevention program for adults, they were invited by Manitoba to expand their services to youth.

Gladys Rowe, Founder and Director of the Indigenous Insights Collective, was invited to support this project. Gladys in turn invited Paisley into the project as a supportive contributor.

 

  • Health

  • Non-Profit

Sector

  • 2025

Year

  • Program development

  • Evaluation planning

Services

Partner

  • Support the Eating Disorder team in understanding current needs and barriers youth experience.

  • Synthesize lessons from their successful adult program and identify meaningful ways to walk alongside youth in their journey towards healing relationship with food, body, and self.

  • Develop an evaluation approach that incorporates storytelling and art, flexibility, and rigour.

Challenge

  • Decolonial

  • Community-engaged

  • Arts-Based

  • Developmental

  • Responsive

Approach

Modular program documentation with internal and external facing documents (lead), including:

  • Custom visuals outlining a grounding philosophy and theory of change for the program (lead)

  • Core teachings shaped by youth, Kookums, and program staff (support)

  • Sample tools and activities to facilitate learning in and about the program (co-lead)

  • An evaluation approach rooted in seasonality, story, and collective learning (mentee)

  • Foundations for ongoing roles and practices to sustain multivocal collaboration in the program (mentee)

Result

  • Collaborator, invited by Indigenous Insights Collective

  • Mentee, orienting to Indigenous Insights approaches

Role

Partner feedback

I liked the deliberate focus on decolonizing. It was not just a one-time chat at the beginning - it seeped throughout all our activities.

— Anonymous

The resources and planning and path that came from our time together feel very grounding in that they build a strong foundation of our values and intentions that we started with. Being able to come to these products as reminders will continue to inform next steps.

In the short term these products will allow us to organize the launch of different parts of YEP programming more quickly with knowing that we have a place to come back home to.

— Anonymous

Next

Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation