Our history (herstory) & past projects
Isis – The Eating Issues Centre began over ten years ago as the Centre for Women's Action on Eating Issues.
We have always been a community/not-for-profit organisation funded through Queensland Health to give therapeutic support and information about eating issues.
The first of its kind
Isis was originally funded in 1996 by Queensland Health’s Mental Health branch to be the first project of its kind funded in Australia to develop an alternative approach to the bio-medical model of working with women with eating issues.
We continue to be funded by the Queensland Government, NGO Mental Health Funding, now administered though the Department of Communiites, Disability Services Queensland.
Isis’ first mission
Isis was created to provide, from a feminist or woman-centred perspective:
- therapeutic group work for women
- counselling services for women
- resourcing & training services to workers in the area of eating issues
These services were developed in consultation and partnership with women with eating issues, and what people recognised was helpful in moving towards recovery and empowerment. These services are still a core part of what Isis does today.
Special group therapy
Isis was specifically funded to utilise a feminist practice approach in ‘group work’ for women with eating issues.
A feminist approach to eating issues understands that eating behaviours are the ways women have found to deal with underlying issues they experience in their lives (see About feminism and eating issues).
Past projects
(past projects to be listed soon)
