CICMH Resources

Mental Health on Campus Podcast – Episode 16: Unlearning Fatphobia

In this episode we discuss fatphobia and how this affects students on post-secondary campuses. Listen to the episode to learn about what fatphobia is, how it affects students on campus, and where they can seek support.

Webinar Series – Diet Culture Within Post-Secondary Settings

Diet culture can play a significant role in eating disorders and disordered eating. In this webinar, special guests Emily Donahue from the National Eating Disorder Information Centre (NEDIC) and Steven Bowa from Sheena’s Place explain what diet culture is, the harm it can cause, and how it may show up in the post-secondary environment. This webinar also explored strategies that can help combat diet culture and support student mental health. French closed captioning is available for this webinar.

Webinar Series – Increasing capacity to support students with an eating disorder

8-17% of post-secondary students are affected with an eating disorder, which can disrupt their life, on- and off-campus. This webinar aims to increase the confidence of the many student services professionals — from residence and student life to campus mental health providers — who feel uncertain about how to best support these students. Attendees will learn about the most common ways students with eating disorders present, suggested formal and informal support strategies, resources to learn more about becoming eating disorder informed, and a practical tool that can assist with triaging students to community care.

Harm Reduction Toolkit

CICMH recently published a toolkit that discusses harm reduction principles, how they can be implemented in the campus setting, and how they relate to range of concerns that goes beyond substance use. For more information on how harm reduction principles apply to eating disorders, see the “Self-Harm” chapter of the toolkit.