Indigenous Approaches to FASD Prevention: Community Action
This booklet provides a brief introduction to community-led initiatives that can help to prevent FASD and includes examples from Canada and internationally.
Indigenous Approaches to FASD Prevention: Wellness
This booklet presents cultural connections as both prevention and intervention measures in discussions about FASD with Indigenous communities. The booklet focuses on supporting mental wellness to address contraception, alcohol use, and pregnancy planning in preventing FASD.
Indigenous Approaches to FASD Prevention: Revitalizing Culture and Healing
This booklet, “Revitalizing Culture and Healing: Indigenous Approaches to FASD Prevention” (2019), highlights how Indigenous communities across Canada are addressing Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) prevention through culturally grounded, community-led approaches.
Aggression Towards Family and Caregivers in Childhood and Adolescence (AFCCA): Managing Aggression at Home
This resource will guide families toward strategies and resources to support parents and caregivers, the child or youth exhibiting aggressive behaviours, and siblings or other family members in the home who may be impacted.
FASD ONE PSA’s for FASD Prevention
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Ontario Network of Expertise (FASD ONE) proudly announces the release of 4 public service announcements dedicated to preventing Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder.
Cognitive Accessibility in the Workplace
Videos in this playlist are meant to help employers make more positive and productive workplaces by making them neuroinclusive.
How to Stop or Prevent Financial Abuse: A Guide for Support Workers & Caregivers of Persons With Cognitive Disabilities
This guide will help you spot the signs that someone you care for is being financially abused.It will also teach you what you can do to help someone avoid financial abuse, or what they can do to stop being financially abused.
Decoding Aggression, Complex Behaviours and Brain-Based Disabilities: Practical Strategies for Addressing Aggression Within the Family System
Families and caregivers facing aggression from children and adolescents often feel isolated, misunderstood, and unsure of where to turn. This groundbreaking clinical manual provides a comprehensive, neuroscience-informed approach to understanding and addressing Aggression Toward Family/Caregivers in Childhood and Adolescence (AFCCA).
Ontario Senior Caregiver action Network for FASD (OSCAN)
In 2021, Ottawa FASD advocates Nancy Lockwood, Elspeth Ross, and Barbara Sabourin launched a provincial support group for senior caregivers of adults with FASD, after recognizing that their needs were largely unmet by existing services. Funded through Health Nexus, Nancy Lockwood and Angela Geddes aimed to reduce caregiver stress, foster peer support, and assist with lifetime planning. Monthly sessions built strong connections and resulted in a shared resource guide. The group calls on governments and agencies to invest in supports for adults with FASD and their aging caregivers, recognizing this as a pressing health equity issue.
The trauma of attachment – (in french)
A presentation and discussion about attachment trauma, secondary trauma, as well as the child’s behaviors and their impacts on the adoptive parents.
Supporting your child with FASD: a workshop for Indigenous communities
FASD workers Eric Marier, Randy White/ Kebeyaawsung, Chrysta Wood, Kim Stewart, Cereena Rows and Liane Guenette present information about the ten brain domains that may be affected by FASD. This event features content relevant to the broader indigenous community of Ontario.
A Mustard Seed of Hope: Culturally grounded approaches within wraparound care for pregnant and parenting women dealing with substance use and trauma
Culturally grounded approaches within wraparound care for pregnant and parenting women dealing with substance use and trauma
