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Visit the new FASD Ontario website

July 8, 2019 By fasd-admin

New FASD Ontario website

This fully bilingual website will help you find the closest available Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) services, learn about a variety of FASD topics, read the latest news and find training.

We want to make sure the website is useful to parents, caregivers and service providers. We need your help to keep it current and to promote it!

Please send us links to resources, services, training and news related to FASD and we will add them. Use the Add a Service, Update a Service, Add a Resource, Update a Resource and Contact Us forms found on the website to do so.

Please help us promote the website to anyone who may be looking for information and services about FASD.

·         The link should go to https://www.fasdinfotsaf.ca

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Launch of new initiative in Ottawa for people affected by Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

September 16, 2015 By fasd-admin

Ottawa, September 9, 2015 – Citizen Advocacy Ottawa is launching a two-year project with an overall aim to increase capacity to identify and meet the needs of children, youth, adults and families affected by Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD).

Determining how many Canadians are living with FASD is difficult as, although FASD is present from birth, individuals are often not diagnosed until later in life when symptoms related to learning disabilities and a range of social problems emerge. In 2006, Health Canada estimated that approximately 1% of the population is affected, but this is a significant underestimation. However, despite the large numbers of people affected by this permanent brain injury, there is no strong, comprehensive system of inter-related, complementary services and supports for individuals and their families affected by FASD.

Citizen Advocacy Ottawa has hired three coordinators, with strong and diverse backgrounds in the FASD arena, who will draw together resources, skills and knowledge that already exist within the partnering/funding agencies, social services sector, institutions, families and community at large. The Fetal Alcohol Resource Program will concentrate on:

education to professionals (including health, education, justice, law enforcement, corrections, child welfare and social services),

  • community development leadership to assist existing resources in building their capacity to respond to and support individuals affected by FASD and their families and
  • service navigation by providing coordinated access to support services to individuals affected by FASD.

Funding and support for the project is provided by Citizen Advocacy Ottawa, NeuroDevNet, Children’s Aid Society, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario and donor-directed funds through the Community Foundation of Ottawa.

“We are very excited to be able to launch, on International FASD Awareness Day, this much needed service for the many people in Ottawa affected by Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders. Our dynamic FASD team will develop a plan that builds on local needs, strengths and networks, while drawing on a growing national body of tools and knowledge.” said Brian Tardif, Executive Director, Citizen Advocacy. “With this initiative Ottawa is at the forefront of increasing capacity for the children, youth, adults and families affected by FASD in Ontario.”

September 9th is International FASD Awareness Day when people all around the world gather for events to raise awareness about the dangers of drinking during pregnancy and the lifelong challenges of individuals and families who struggle with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders. The first FASD day was celebrated on 9/9/99.  This day was chosen so that on the ninth day of the ninth month of the year, the world will remember that during the nine months of pregnancy a woman should abstain from alcohol.

Citizen Advocacy Ottawa is a small but powerful registered charity and is one of the few organizations that support people of all ages across the disability spectrum and their families – those with physical, intellectual, developmental, psychiatric and age-related disabilities.

For more details or to schedule an interview with Brian Tardif please call 613-761-9522 ext. 225: btardif@citizenadvocacy.org

Or Andrea Podruski, Program Manager, 613-761-9522 ext. 229:apodruski@citizenadvocacy.org
https://www.facebook.com/FARP09092015

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Best to stop drinking while trying to get pregnant

September 8, 2015 By fasd-admin

Best to stop drinking while trying to get pregnant

About 20 per cent of women continue to drink alcohol after finding out they are pregnant – with some reporting having four or more drinks a week.

The results come from a new study released today looking at pregnant women’s behaviour regarding alcohol.

http://edmontonfetalalcoholnetwork.org/2015/09/08/pregnant-mothers-still-drinking/

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Bruce/Grey Health Unit launches Alcohol and Pregnancy Don’t Mix campaign

May 25, 2015 By fasd-admin

“…The key message is not to drink any alcohol when planning and during pregnancy…”

http://www.simcoe.com/news-story/5628153-bruce-grey-health-unit-launches-alcohol-and-pregnancy-don-t-mix-campaign/
Simcoe.com

May 15, 2015
Bruce/Grey Health Unit launches Alcohol and Pregnancy Don’t Mix campaign
Meaford Express
[Meaford, Ontario]
By Chris Fell

Coasters with the message “Be safe. Have an alcohol-free pregnancy” are being distributed to licensed establishments throughout Grey Bruce this month.

The key message is not to drink any alcohol when planning and during pregnancy. The coasters, from the Grey Bruce Health Unit and the Fetal Alcohol Neurobehavioural Leadership Team, target women who are planning a pregnancy or who are already pregnant.

The campaign increases awareness that drinking any amount of alcohol will have some effect on the baby’s development. This campaign would not be possible without the participation of the licensed establishments.

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) describes the harm that can occur to a fetus when a woman drinks alcohol during her pregnancy. Alcohol can cause both birth defects and brain damage to the unborn baby. There is no known safe amount or type of alcohol to drink during pregnancy.

According to Health Canada, 1% of births involve alcohol use while a Grey Bruce study found 4% of births locally showed use of alcohol during pregnancy (Gareri, et al., 2008).

For more information on FASD or to learn more about local resources and supports for pregnancy, please call Public Health at 519-376-9420 or 1-800-263-3456 or visit our website at www.publichealthgreybruce.on.ca.

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Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Awareness Day September 9th, 2014

July 22, 2014 By fasd-admin

Project Health. Region of Waterloo. Public Health.

September 9th is Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Awareness Day: An Opportunity to Promote Canada’s Low Risk Alcohol Drinking Guidelines…
Why is Prevention Necessary?… What can your workplace do?

For more information contact: projecthealth@regionofwaterloo.ca

http://tinyurl.com/n6pwwuu
http://www.projecthealth.ca/fetal-alcohol-spectrum-disorder-fasd-awareness-day-opportunity-promote-canada%E2%80%99s-low-risk-alcohol

 

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Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Awareness Day

July 22, 2014 By fasd-admin

Project Health. Region of Waterloo. Public Health.
September 9, 2014

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Awareness Day: An Opportunity to Promote Canada’s Low Risk Alcohol Drinking Guidelines…
Why is Prevention Necessary?… What can your workplace do?

For for information contact  projecthealth@regionofwaterloo.ca
http://www.projecthealth.ca/fetal-alcohol-spectrum-disorder-fasd-awareness-day-opportunity-promote-canada%E2%80%99s-low-risk-alcohol

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December 23, 2013 By fasd-admin

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