A clinic offering treatment and support for young people with an eating disorder will open in Braddon next year.
Opening in February 2023, the service will deliver early intervention treatment, and will be run by CatholicCare.
The ACT Government has provided $230,000 in annual funding for CatholicCare to deliver the service, with the Commonwealth Government matching funding for the next four years.
Minister for Mental Health Emma Davidson hopes the service will improve outcomes for patients and reduce demand on specialist and acute inpatient services.
“We know people with eating disorders often do not seek help, with only an estimated 5 to 15 per cent of people with eating disorders accessing treatment,” said Davidson.
“Those who do seek treatment often do so between 4 and 10 years after the onset of the disorder, meaning they usually require more intensive specialist support and acute care.
“The early intervention service will deliver targeted support at a crucial time to ensure Canberrans with an eating disorder and disordered eating behaviours get the help they need.”
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![Teacher Vanessa Jones has been living in Higgins since 2001, and while she loves the area, she says she is “fed up” with the neglectful ACT government.
The Higgins shops have been completely abandoned, says Vanessa, preventing the opportunity for residents to have a community-centred space to socialise.
They only received bins nine months ago, she says, and requests for a water station and repairs to the bus station have gone unanswered.
“It’s very, very slow,” says Vanessa.
“I asked for the zebra crossing on Fullagar [Crescent] to be repainted, and we had to wait about six or nine months.
“That’s just such a long time… we pay a lot of rates.”
Vanessa says assistance from the government only seems to go to communities with time-rich and assertive communities, leaving places such as Higgins, where the majority of households have both adults working full-time and English may not be the first language of the family, at an automatic disadvantage.
“If you’ve got two people working, paying a mortgage, raising two or three kids, they don’t have the time,” says Vanessa.
Vanessa says the lack of attention quieter places such as Higgins is receiving is starting to look a lot like favouritism.
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