Developing a justice-focused body image program for U.S. middle schoolers: a school-based community-engaged research process.

We describe a community-engaged research process to co-create and implement an evidence-informed, diversity-focused body image program for early adolescents. Our team included middle school staff, students, and teachers, and university faculty and students. Team members had a diverse range of intersecting cis- and transgender, racial, sexuality, and disability identities.

Expert peer facilitation of the EVERYbody Project: A randomized-controlled evaluation of a diversity-focused, dissonance-based, universal body image program for college students.

Objective: A novel peer facilitation model was used to deliver a two session, dissonance-based, inclusive body image intervention that critically examines how internalized size-based oppression intersects with race, class, gender, sexuality, and ability.

Method: The EVERYbody Project was open to all college students and delivered by "expert" peer facilitators with body image and diversity experience and advanced facilitation skills. Recruitment was halted due to COVID-19; 90 students in the Northwest US (M age = 19.