Project
Increasing Yukon Capacity to Work with FASD
Principal Investigator(s): Judy Pakozdy, Executive Director, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Society of the Yukon (FASSY), phone: 867-393-4948, email: fascap@klondiker.com
Start/End Date: 1998-2009
Location: throughout Yukon
Brief Description: is a project that has been reincarnated as funding comes available for the past 9 years. The project focuses on increasing understanding and enhancing capacity of Yukoners to address issues around FASD in the Yukon. This year, the focus is on the support needs of pregnant women, including those living with FASD, and the modifications and interventions needed to improve the quality of life for all people living with this disability. Community workshops, discussion groups and individual training/consultations with interested individuals, teachers, parents, childcare workers, group home workers, etc. are offered free of charge throughout the Yukon. Assistance with community asset mapping and development of community plans is also offered. At one gathering in 2000, over 200 people completed an information sheet about what they saw as the most pressing needs around FAS in Yukon, and that information was collated and used for planning for the next 5 years. No specific evaluation done of the overall project, but Health Canada did a review after 3 years of funding and evaluation forms are completed by participants at each community workshop.
Time Frame: ongoing
Kind of Project: implementation/demonstration
Population Served: urban, rural, and remote
Publications: Trying Differently: A Guide for Daily Living and Working with FAS and Other Brain Differences’, 3rd edition produced in 2005, 7,000 copies in circulation. Funding for reprinting comes from sales to professionals. Copies are free to parents.
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