Tag: advocacy
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How the Texas FASD Network Helps: Tools, Training, and Advocacy
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Learn how the Texas FASD Network connects families and professionals to critical FASD resources. This session will walk through the Network’s website resources, provider directory, training opportunities, and advocacy initiatives […]
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FASD Impact Week 2025
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Join advocates, clinicians, researchers, and professionals from around the country for three days of advocacy, action, collaboration, and community from September 15 to 17, 2025, in Washington, DC. Impact Week […]
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FASD: For Criminal Justice Practitioners
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Captain Holloman has been with the Elkhart County Sheriff’s Office (ECSO) since March of 1995. He has certifications in internal affairs, CALEA/APCO accreditation management, field training, traffic crash reconstruction, computer […]
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OurFamilyWizard: Enhancing Communication in the Child Welfare System
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The dependency court system experiences many challenges based on decentralized record-keeping, communication struggles, and privacy concerns. OurFamilyWizard streamlines and centralizes communication and records in one secure platform, thereby reducing conflict, […]
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Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD): For Criminal Justice Practitioners
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This training will focus on a short history and explanation related to the overall spectrum attributed to fetal alcohol disorders. It will touch briefly upon recognition of ‘red flags’ and […]
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Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD): For Criminal Justice Practitioners
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This training will focus on a short history and explanation related to the overall spectrum attributed to fetal alcohol disorders. It will touch briefly upon recognition of ‘red flags’ and […]
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Introduction to Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)
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Of all substances of abuse, alcohol causes the most serious long-term effects in a fetus, resulting in permanent brain damage. Many children with FASDs often go undiagnosed and suffer lifelong […]
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A Family Perspective on the FASD Diagnosis
Written by Laura Bousquet A parent, self-advocate, and part of the FASD United team, Laura responds to proposed changes to FASD diagnosis recently published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health. […]
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Ann OKeeffe and Her Amazing Kiddos!
Kids are often a light in the darkest of times. Ann O’Keeffe and her children are a beautiful exhibition of this. Ann has a powerhouse pair of twins who love […]
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It’s FASD Awareness Day– September 9th, 2023.
We’re a little over a week into FASD Awareness Month, and guess what time it is?! It’s FASD Awareness Day, THE internationally designated day recognizing fetal alcohol spectrum disorders and […]