Save the Date – FASD Conference 2023 (2)

Registration is now open. See flyer for more details

Please join the fourth annual London & Region FASD Conference 2023. This virtual educational conference connects clinicians, researchers, experts, social and support workers, and the fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) community to share current research and resources, facilitate dialogue, and promote advocacy. This conference is ideal for researchers, medical and allied health professionals, educators, students, families, and adults and youth living with FASD in Southwestern Ontario and beyond.

This year’s conference title is: Breaking Stigma: Supporting Success in a Complex World. Our theme promotes inter/cross-disciplinary partnerships to translate academic theory into practice and allow personal and community experience to inform effective research and clinical strategies. The conference proudly offers:

• Current FASD research findings & implications
• Strategies for evidence-based treatment
• Interactive knowledge exchange during a
choice of educational workshops
• Regional resources, supports, & services for
families & individuals with FASD
• Personal accounts of lived experiences

Invited Plenary Lectures:

• Jeffrey Wozniak, PhD, LP
• Donna Debolt, BSW, RSW
• Éric Racine, PhD
• Claire Coles, PhD
• Jacqueline Pei, PhD, RPsych

We look forward to seeing you on October 24 & 25, 2023!

Our 4^th Annual FASD Conference is taking place on May 31^st from 8AM-4pm in Guelph.

Our conferences highlight Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, a lifelong disability that affects 4% of Canadians. FASD is often overlooked, stigmatized and commonly misdiagnosed.

Each year, our conference provides a lineup of incredible speakers from not only a research and educational background, but also from a lived experience perspective.

By spreading awareness and education to other professionals, as well as to parents and caregivers, we can tighten the gap in understanding FASD and challenging misinformation about this highly prevalent disability.

2023 FASD Conference Flyer (links)

Effective Communication Strategies related to the needs of children and adults living with FASD including sharing information with professionals

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Brenda Knight, a counseling psychologist and FASD Mental Health Specialist in private practice in Vancouver, B.C., offers five decades of experience with families, children, youth and adults living with the diverse mental health challenges. Having learned about the psychological issues often experienced by persons diagnosed with FASD, she committed much of her practice to addressing their emotional well-being and mental health care throughout their lifespan.

Brenda is recognized nationally and internationally for her respectful, compassionate and realistic approach to helping those living with FASD and their families.

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To sign up visit: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/effective-approaches-to-sharing- information-with-fasd-service-providers-tickets-559158396817

Donna Debolt Learning to Ask for and Accept Help

THIS IS A FREE VIRTUAL WORKSHOP

Donna Debolt, a nationally and internationally respected FASD specialist, educator, trainer and advocate will talk to parents and caregivers about their role as teachers in
modeling when and how to ask for, accept and use help when it’s needed.
P A R E N T S  H E L P I N G  P A R E N T S  F A S D  O N T A R I O
Register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/donnadebolt-tickets-490983513907

This is a free, 3 hour virtual workshop to which all family members are invited: those affected by FASD, parents and
caregivers, non-affected siblings, extended family members, and supportive friends.

 

To sign up visit:The Lived Experience Workshop

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/myles-himmelreichlived-experience-what-does-it-teach-us-tickets-491354924807

Parents Helping Parents FASD Ontario Presents- “A Supportive Gathering for Parents and Caregivers With Brenda Knight”

 Parents and caregivers share a common goal to maximize the well-being of family members living with FASD.

This three-hour gathering is an opportunity for you to reflect upon and consider approaches to supporting the mental health needs of those we love and care for while reducing risk and optimizing long term outcomes.

Brenda Knight will offer her compassionate, realistic perspective and professional overview of psychological factors which may affect the emotional and behavioural well-being of individuals with FASD over their life span: trauma; adoption; grief and loss; attachment; and communication differences.

Reflections on how these factors affect family relationships, including the consideration of non-affected siblings, will be discussed.

Brenda Knight, a counseling psychologist and FASD Mental Health Specialist in private practice in Vancouver, BC. , offers five decades of experience with families, children, youth and adults living with the diverse mental health challenges often related to sexual, emotional, and physical trauma, and communication differences. Having learned about the psychological issues often experienced by persons diagnosed with FASD, she committed much of her practice to their emotional well-being and mental health care throughout the lifespan. Brenda values sharing her professional knowledge and lived experience with professionals, parents and persons diagnosed with FASD. She is recognized nationally and internationally for her respectful, compassionate and realistic approach to sharing life with persons with FASD.

NOTE: 3 follow-up consultations will be available to small groups of workshop participants only. (10-12). Dates will be announced.

Please register at Eventbrite by November 2, 2022

Thank you for your interest in the FASD ONE TEAM ASSESSMENT TRAINING COURSE. We are no longer accepting registration at this time. Please keep your eye on the FASD One website (https://fasdontario.ca/) for future opportunities to participate in this course or email admin@cysc.ca for more info.

A comprehensive online course designed to promote and educate practitioners on multidisciplinary team processes for comprehensive FASD Assessment

 

What is the FASD ONE Assessment Team Training?

 

Welcome to the FASD ONE Assessment Team Training Course. This comprehensive collection of assessment information focusses on operationalizing the multidisciplinary team approach as recommended by the Canadian Guidelines for Diagnosis. The material has been compiled by a number of experienced FASD assessment clinicians and many individuals with FASD and family members who experience the impact every day. This training has been reviewed and supported by members of the FASD Ontario Network of Expertise. 

 

Once we have received your registration, and it has been approved, you will be invited to participate in the course through a web based platform called Rise.com. You will have six weeks to complete the course by working through four modules that will consist of different learning modalities (text, graphics, videos, and audio) as well as occasional quizzes to ensure material understanding and retention.

The overall goal of this training is to discover how we can put the Canadian Guidelines for FASD Diagnosis Across the Lifespan into action, and to enhance our existing assessment services to be more inclusive of the many in need.

 

The course consists of 4 Online Modules that YOUR OWN TIME through the rise.com platform. You will have 8 weeks to finish the course and earn a Certificate of Completion.

 

The first cohort of participants will begin on July 4th, 2022 and will have until September 5th, 2022.

 

Course Creation and Contributions

We would  like to honour the individuals, families, support people and advocates who came before us.

People have been working tirelessly for many years without much recognition or understanding from others, i.e.  their family doctors, other service providers, school staff, family members and community etc. regarding the unique and very complicated circumstances that are a part of their everyday lives. 

They are the reason the government has made these recent investments and we want to take a minute to share and stress that the individuals and families who are affected by PAE/FASD are our most important and meaningful teachers

 

Contributors to the course through professional expertise or vital lived experience:

 

Dr. Claire Mitchell

Angela Geddes

Dr. Louise Scott

Janet Carioni

Dr. Kimberly Harris

Mohamed (Mo) Oshalla

Tanya

Tracy Grant

Ashley Rovert

Darlene Durand

Reinier de Smit

Shannon

 

We acknowledge FASD ONE for their ongoing commitment to raising awareness and building system capacity aimed to improve outcomes for people affected by PAE/FASD.

 

What is FASD ONE?

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Ontario Network of Expertise (FASD ONE) is a group that works together to address issues related to Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) in the province. Membership includes experts and specialists in research, health promotion, diagnosis, justice services, education, community and policy development, and service delivery as well as family members who have intimate knowledge of the practical needs of individuals with this disability. Action group members have been working together for a number of years but have formalized the collaborative approach in 2005. READ MORE HERE 

 

Registration

 

This course is FREE and available to practitioners who are looking to gain knowledge in FASD Assessments.  Registration is full. Anyone looking to register can register for the waitlist.

 

Please complete the registration form HERE . 

 

Please email Janice Balfour with any questions admin@cysc.ca

 

FASD Poster for event

PRESENTED BY THE MISSISSAUGAS OF THE CREDIT FIRST NATION

ESSENTIAL STRATEGIES TO ACHIEVE LESS STRESS AND MORE SUCCESS AT HOME, WORK AND SCHOOL LIVE ONLINE TRAINING
MONDAY MAY 30TH 2022

Jeff Noble, FASD Coach, Consultant and International FASD Speaker, Author of Making Sense of the Madness and FASD Soundbites and Sanity Savers
Host of The FASD SUCCESS Show Podcast

With special guest RJ FORMANEK
Topics covered include:
An overview of FASD… PLUS practical, research based theories and strategies that will focus on the FASD caregiver and building capacity through mentorship and (non-traditional) support systems.

For more information please contact Laura-Lee Kelly:
LauraLee.Kelly@mncfn.ca
To book your tickets: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-keys-to-fasd-successregistration-337283182077