Understanding Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID)

This training will be delivered in person, Venue TBC.

Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) is a much-misunderstood form of eating distress disproportionately affecting neuro-divergent people leading to negative impacts on a person’s mental and physical health and ability to engage socially. 

Eating Distress North East (EDNE) have a 36-year history of delivering specialist high quality support to people with mild to moderate eating distress .  They have lots of experience working with different presentations of ARFID and are offering this workshop to staff and volunteers working with young people.

From the training you will be able to:

• Understand signs and symptoms. 
• Explore misconceptions around ARFID 
• Develop strategies on how to talk to someone about ARFID. 
• Support strategies and identify when to seek further help. 

The training is CPD accredited, and all participants will receive a certificate alongside training slides and additional resources.

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Delivery method This session is designed as an in-person event, the venue is TBC at this time.

Accessibility Please let us know in advance if you have any accessibility requirements that would help you get the most out of this session. We will do everything we can to accommodate them. We can provide a BSL interpreter for training and events on request, but ask you to give us enough advance notice to enable this to be organised. To maximise resources, we are unable to provide BSL interpreters for all sessions unless we know this is essential.

Evaluation This event is free to attend but all participants will be required to complete a short evaluation on completion. This feedback enables us to continue delivering a free programme of training and events.

For security and practical reasons: You can only book one place for yourself. If a colleague wants to attend, they will need to book separately themselves. You must give us all the essential information requested so that we know your registration is genuine.

If circumstances change, you must advise us as soon as possible so that the place isn’t wasted as we have limited spaces for each event. You must also advise us if a substitute person from your organisation is attending in your place. We will be monitoring non-attendance, and may not accept future bookings from regular non-attenders.