The Government of British Columbia has pledged $4.1 million over the next three years to the non-profit Woodstone Residence, on Galiano Island. Beginning on February, the residential treatment facility will cater to patients aged 17-24 with eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.

The Provincial Government will pay for ten of the center's twenty beds, with the remaining being funded privately. Each resident will be expected to stay for around two or three months, according to Health Services Minister Kevin Falcon.

The facility will be operated by the Looking Glass Foundation, which offers support to individuals and families dealing with eating disorders. The residence will include treatment to intercept eating disorders before they reach medical crisis and risk of hospitalization. In addition, it will provide care for patients that have been discharged from hospital care but who are not yet ready to return home.

The project was pioneered by Cindy Dobbe, Dolores Elliott and eborah Grimm, three women whose daughters experienced eating disorders. According to the BC Government, around 52,187 girls and women and 5,267 boys and men in British Columbia between the ages of 10 and 54 were living with a clinically diagnosed eating disorder in 2009.