Worldwide List of ED Advocacy Organizations
This list of advocacy organizations around the world is offered as a service to the public by F.E.A.S.T. volunteers and staff. We welcome your additions and corrections.
PLEASE NOTE: F.E.A.S.T. is not able to evaluate the philosophical approach, quality, legal status, or organizational structure of the advocacy groups listed here. Information or opinions shared through these groups may not be evidence-based or in accordance with F.E.A.S.T.’s Principles.
** Parent-led or focused organization.
International or Web-Based:
- Academy for Eating Disorders (AED)
- Adults Supporting Peers in Recovery from Eating Disorders (ASPIRE)
- ANGI, The Anorexia Nervosa Genetics Initiative (ANGI)
- F.E.A.S.T. (Families Empowered and Supporting Treatment of Eating Disorders)**
- Binge Behavior
- Global Foundation for Eating Disorders (GFED)
- International Eating Disorders Action (IEDAction)
- International Eating Disorders Family Support (IEDFS)**
- International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals (IAEDP)
- International Federation of Eating Disorder Dietitians
- MAED Advocacy (Mothers Against Eating Disorders)**
- MentorCONNECT
- SockIt to ED campaign**
- The Dirty Laundry Project (DLP)**
- World Eating Disorder Action Day
Australia
- Aussie Parents Supporting Children with Eating Disorders
- Australian and New Zealand Academy for Eating Disorders (ANZAED)
- Bridges Association Incorporated
- The Butterfly Foundation
- Centre for Eating and Dieting Disorders
- The Eating Disorders Association Inc (Queensland)
- Eating Disorders Families Australia (EDFA)
- Eating Disorders Foundation of Victoria
- National Eating Disorders Collaboration (NEDC)
- Red House Australia
- Tasmania Recovery From Eating Disorders (TRED)
- The Victorian Centre of Excellence in Eating Disorders (CEED)
Austria
- Österreichische Gesellschaft für Essstörungen (ÖGES)/Austrian Society on Eating Disorders (ASED)
Belgium
Brazil
Canada
- Alyssa Stevenson Memorial Trust
- Bulimia Anorexia Nervosa Association (Windsor, ON)
- Danielle’s Place (Burlington, ON)
- Eating Disorder Support Network of Alberta (EDSNA)
- Eating Disorders Nova Scotia Canada
- Eating Disorders Association of Canada (Association des Troubles Alimentaires du
Canada) - Eating Disorder Foundation of Canada
- Eating Disorders Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador (EDFNL)
- Eating Disorder Support Network of Alberta
- Family Services of the North Shore (Vancouver, BC)
- Hope’s Garden (London, ON)
- Hopewell (Ottawa, ON)
- Kelty Mental Health Resource Centre – Eating Disorders
- Looking Glass Foundation (Vancouver, BC)
- Michelle’s Voice: The Society for Eating Disorder Awareness and Education
- National Eating Disorder Information Centre
- National Initiative for Eating Disorders, (NIED)
- ProfIL, le Centre de reference pour professionnels sur les troubles de
l’alimentation et de l’image corporelle au masculin - Sheena’s Place (Toronto, ON)
- Calgary Silver Linings Foundation (Calgary, AB)
- The Waterloo-Wellington Eating Disorders Coalition (WWEDC)
- Waterstone Foundation
Costa Rica
Croatia
Czech Republic
Denmark
Finland
France
- (AFDAS-TCA) Association Française pour le Développement des Approches Spécialisées
des Troubles du Comportement Alimentaire (French Association for the Development of
Specialized Approaches for Eating Disorders) - feeleat
Germany
Hong Kong
Ireland
Israel
Italy
- AIDA Roma Association
- Associazione Italiana Disturbi dell Alimentazione e del Peso
- Associazione A.C.C.A. Lucca | Associazione per la Cura del Comportamento Alimentare,
- Associazione Alice per i DCA | per i Disturbi del Comportamento Alimentare
- Associazione Briciole di Pane
- Associazione Il Bucaneve | Associazione di Volontariato sui Disturbi Alimentari
- Associazione Erika Forever Onlus
- ADAO Friuli Onlus, Associazione Disturbi Alimentari e Obesità
- Consultanoi Associazione Nazionale Disturbi del
Comportamento Alimentare - Conversando Onlus | Anoressia, Bulimia, Disturbi Alimentari, Salute e Benessere
- Fenice Lazio Onlus | Associazione per la Cura e la Riabilitazione dei Disturbi
Alimentari - NEVER GIVE UP (Responsabile Comunicazione e Sviluppo NEVER GIVE UP
ONLUS) - PE(N)SA DIFFERENTE / THIN(K) DIFFERENT
- Società Italiana per lo Studio dei Disturbi del Comportamento Alimentare
(SISDCA) - Voci dell anima | ONLUS di parenti, amici e sostenitori di persone con Disturbi
del Comportamento Alimentare
Japan
- Eating Disorders Community Peerful (摂食障害コミュニティピアフル
- Eating Disorder Hope
- Japan Association for Eating Disorders
Mexico
New Zealand
- Australian and New Zealand Academy for Eating Disorders (ANZAED)
- Eating Disorders Association of New Zealand (EDANZ)**
- Eating Difficulties Education Network (EDEN)
Northern Ireland
Pakistan
Spain
- Asociacion Espanola para el Estudio de los Trastornos de Conducta Alimentaria
- (FITA) Fundación Instituto de Trastornos Alimentarios
Sweden
- Nordic Eating Disorders Society (combines Swedish, Danish and Norwegian societies)
- Swedish Eating Disorders Society
Switzerland
The Netherlands
United Kingdom
- Anorexia and Bulimia Care
- Averil Hart Campaign**
- beat (Beating Eating Disorders
- Anorexia Boy Recovery
- Charlotte’s Helix
- Elephant In the Room Foundation
- King’s College London Eating Disorders Research Group
- First Steps Derbyshire
- Grainne Smith’s Working Together Care
- MaleVoicED: Male Voices with Eating Disorders
- North East Eating Disorders Support (NEEDS)
- S.E.E.D. (Support and Education for Eating Disorders)
UAE
United States
- Alliance for Eating Disorders Awareness
- ANAD: National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders
- Andrea’s Voice
- Anorexia Nervosa and Related Eating Disorders (ANRED)
- Association of Professionals Treating Eating Disorders (APTED)
- Binge Eating Disorder Association (BEDA)
- Breaking The Chains Foundation
- Bulimia.com
- Bulimia NervosaResource Guide
- Caring Online
- Eat Breathe Thrive
- Eating Disorder Coalition of Miami,
- Eating Disorder Foundation (Denver, CO)
- Eating Disorder Hope
- Eating Disorder Network of Maryland
- Eating Disorder Referral and Information Center
- Eating Disorders and Education Network Network (EDEN)
- Eating Disorders Coalition
- Renewed Eating Disorder Support
- Eating Disorders Information Network (EDIN)
- Eating Disorders Resource Center (EDRC)
- Eating Disorder Recovery Support, Inc. (EDRS) (Petaluma,CA)
- Eating Disorders Treatment Accountability Council (EDTAC)
- T.H.E. Center for Disordered Eating (North Carolina)
- The Elisa Project (Dallas, TX)
- Embody Carolina
- The Emily Program Foundation
- Erin Riederer Foundation
- Featherweight
- Finding Balance (Franklin, TN)
- Hope Network, LLC
- The Kristen Haglund Foundation
- KMB for Answers
- Maudsley Parents
- MentorConnect
- Mirror Mirror Eating Disorder Information
- Missouri Eating Disorders Association
- Moonshadow
- Multiservice Eating Disorders Association (MEDA) (Newton, MA)
- Nalgona Positivity Pride
- The National Association for Males With Eating Disorders (NAMED)
- National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA)
- Ophelia’s Place, Inc.
- Project HEAL
- Project Maria
- Recovery Warriors
- Reaching Out Against Eating Disorders
- Residential Eating Disorders Consortium (REDC)
- SPEAK (Students Promoting Eating Disorder Awareness and Knowledge)
- Southern Smash
- Strategic Training Initiative for the Prevention of Eating Disorders (STRIPED)
- T-FFED: Trans Folx Fighting Eating Disorders
- Thick Dumpling Skin
