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This workshop will present 10 evidence-informed strategies for delivering effective, campus-based behavioral health care to undergraduate, graduate, and professional students experiencing eating disorders. As demand for eating disorder services grows across higher education, university behavioral health providers must navigate the tension between brief treatment frameworks and the complex, multidisciplinary needs of this population. Participants will learn to apply targeted, goal-oriented interventions that promote safety, stabilization, and early skill development within session-limited care models. The workshop will explore how to recognize clinical indicators that warrant referral to higher levels of care and will offer guidance for building integrated care teams that span behavioral health, medical services, nutrition, psychiatry, disability services, and academic support. Special focus will be given to partnering with campus-based physical health services for medical monitoring and risk assessment, and to developing sustainable referral pathways with specialized eating disorder treatment centers and community clinicians. The session will also highlight practical approaches for navigating common barriers to care, such as insurance limitations, geographic access challenges, and institutional resource constraints. Strategies will address the unique developmental needs of undergraduate versus graduate and professional students, as well as the role of identity-specific factors in assessment, treatment engagement, and care planning. Participants will be encouraged to apply cultural humility and diversity-informed clinical frameworks when working with students from varied racial, ethnic, LGBTQIA+, international backgrounds, and those with diverse body sizes and disabilities. Attendees will leave the session with actionable tools to enhance systems-level coordination and implement sustainable clinical practices within their campus mental health services. The 10 strategies presented will be grounded in current literature, informed by applied practice models, and designed to support ethically responsive, student-centered care. This session will be led by two clinical directors from university settings. Both presenters bring prior experience from specialized eating disorder treatment settings and now oversee clinical leadership, interdisciplinary care coordination, and program development in higher education behavioral health systems.