What is PEACE?
PEACE stands for Pathway for Eating disorders and Autism developed from Clinical Experience. PEACE works together with autistic people who have an eating disorder, their families, and clinicians to improve understanding and promote inclusive care and treatment for eating disorders.
Please note-
The BOB PEACE programme has reached the end of its innovation period and work is now embedded into CAMHS services. As the project is no longer active, this website, whilst remaining as a resource, does not represent an active project or team.
We hope that young people, and those who support them, will continue to benefit from the PEACE ethos and framework.
What PEACE BOB have done
PEACE worked with existing teams to improve understanding and awareness of co-occurring eating disorders and autism, as well as promoting inclusive eating disorder treatment. We did this through:
Delivering webinars to support people to better understand autism and why eating disorders need to be thought about differently for autistic young people. These are now embedded as a resource.
Developing resources for all the people that care for and support autistic young people. They are now established in CAMHS eating disorder teams across BOB and are available on our website.
Finding out from autistic young people with eating disorders and their families what they want us to know and making sure that this information is then used to help decision making and inform future practice.
Talking to people that support young people and their families and finding out what information they need. We then developed resources based on what they told us which will continue to be used.
Providing consultation to health professionals to think about autism and eating difficulties and adapting eating disorder treatment. This supported clinicians in their knowledge and confidence when working with autistic young people, and we hope that this ethos and framework continues to improve care.
For further information, click below to view an article about the PEACE Pathway. This was written for the National Autistic Society after the CAMHS eating disorder teams (supported by PEACE) were awarded Autism Specialist accreditation by the National Autistic Society.
The PEACE BOB Pathway Showcase gives an in depth overview of the project, key highlights and what we have achieved.
How PEACE began
A team in London set up the PEACE service for adults who have eating disorders and are also autistic and their experts by experience chose the name PEACE. We used their idea to develop a service in Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire, BOB for short. We were the first PEACE team to be set up in the community for children and young people, and are very excited about the work we have done!
We know that around a third of people with an eating disorder are also thought to be or known to be autistic, so PEACE is increasing awareness and understanding of autism and making sure that care is inclusive for autistic young people who have an eating disorder.
The PEACE London website has lots of helpful resources, information and advice.
Click below to view their website.