We are so excited to welcome everyone to FASD Awareness Month 2025. It’s a huge month for us and a huge year for all things FASD. Advocacy is ramping up as we make our way towards National FASD Impact Week later this September! FASD United has a range of new resources and exciting program updates to share with the community as we work to give FASD a seat at the table.
First, we invite you to look over our Toolkit for FASD Awareness Month, just updated for 2025 with a social media guide, advocacy guide, new resources, proclamations, press releases, and more. You can use the toolkit to promote FASD awareness, inform your own advocacy, and get involved with upcoming events. Social media graphics, messages, and hashtags are available in the comprehensive toolkit.
Please join us for National FASD Impact Week from September 14-17 in Washington, D.C. Registration is open now and events include Advocacy Day on the Hill, a poster reception, a documentary sneak peek, and The Red Shoes Gala, FASD United’s largest fundraising event of the year. We’d love to have you join us, along with advocates, clinicians, researchers, and professionals from around the country. This is your opportunity to use your voice and take action, through workshops, advocacy, and symposiums.
It’s an exciting month for policy advocacy. The FASD Respect Act is advancing through Congress after passing the U.S. House in June. Hill Day this September 16th is a great opportunity to advocate for final passage of this comprehensive Federal legislation to address FASD and support those impacted. The policy team recently published the report “Preventing Costs and Supporting People: The Case for Investing in FASD.”
We are excited to share that our programs are expanding in scope and serving more and more members of the FASD community. Our Family Navigator program is growing and responding to a record number of requests for support from families across the country, directing individuals and their loved ones to resources and providing one-on-one support.
Our Media and Communications Hub continues to launch new materials, including our Glimpses of FASD series of short videos featuring the living experience. Our social media channels have experienced huge growth over the past year in engagement and we are now reaching more people than every before. The FASD United Affiliate Network continues to expand and grow.
This September, join the movement and be part of Move FASD, a collection of gatherings around the US intended to build and strengthen our communities around FASD awareness. Activities can include anything that gets you moving your body: bean-bag toss, a 5k, a dance marathon, a yoga session… whatever gets you moving!
This September, we’d like to give a special shout-out to our amazing partners at CDC and the national organizations we collaborate with through the National Partner Network (NPN) to improve outcomes for people with FASD and support healthy pregnancies. Thank you to our partners at the Center for Health Services Research at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Science, where we are working to address FASD in the military health system.
This September is shaping up to be one of the most exciting and busy FASD Awareness Months yet and we can’t wait for you to join us in empowering the FASD community!