Schools and Youth Groups

Healthy schools involvement


First Steps Derbyshire have developed two DVDs to raise awareness about eating disorders. This includes a DVD featuring young people’s views on eating disorders. This DVD was created and produced by young people from Derby schools and youth groups and is a good tool to help young people explore and challenge the stigmas and stereotypes surrounding eating disorders and mental illness.

 

First Steps has been trained by B-eat and Dove to deliver the Dove Self-Esteem Workshop to schools and youth groups. It's a thought provoking workshop on body image and self esteem workshop designed to help young people aged 11-14 understand and deal with feelings about their physical appearance, and learn how ideal images of beauty are created. The materials have been used with over 600,00 young people in countries including the UK, Italy, Mexico, Brazil, Korea and Canada. This is part of the Dove Self-Esteem Fund target to reach 5 million young people with educational programmes by 2010