Body Confident Collective

 

Grant: Give500 2022
Project: Embrace Albury Wodonga
Awarded Amount: $4,000.00
Impact Areas: Connection & Well Being – Leadership

The Body Confident Collective is a health promotion charity and body image research- translation organisation, on a mission to ensure no one is held back by their beliefs about their body.

The Embrace Albury Wodonga Youth Activation Project involved connecting young regional people and empowering them to tackle body image issues in the ways that matter to them. 100 young people from communities across AW and surrounds, and 25 key stakeholders from school, sport, and community organisations spread the Embrace message across the AW region- attending a Youth Summit, implementing their own change project, and receiving online mentoring for the 6-month duration of the program. Together they created change that can improve the resilience of young people to appearance pressure and enhance their physical and mental health and wellbeing.