Project
Respect Yourself: Aboriginal Youth Speak About FASD and Healthy Child Development
Principal Investigator(s): BC Aboriginal Child Care Society; Lisa Faingold, phone: 604-913-9128, email: lisa@acc-society.bc.ca. For information requests please contact: Administrative assistant, at reception@acc-society.bc.ca
Start/End Date: May 2004
Location: BC
Brief Description: (3 hour workshop/12-minute video) – Multi-media project to increase awareness and understanding about stages of healthy child development and FASD among BC Aboriginal youth. This is accomplished through a public awareness campaign for their peers and includes three components: development of culturally appropriate resource materials about healthy pregnancy and FASD, production of a 12-minute video and training to 10 youth to give class presentation for grades 9, 10 and 11.
Time Frame: ongoing
Kind of Project: implementation
Population Served: urban, suburban, rural, and remote
Publications: The Best Start in Life: What Youth Need to Know About Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (video); Facilitator’s Toolkit which contains all of the needed to host a 2-hour FASD information session for youth (facilitator’s instructions, presentation and summary slides, presentation notes, agenda and workshop evaluation form).
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