Project
Telling Our Stories: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder becomes real as youth and young adults who have FASD share their stories about the impact of FASD on their lives.
Principal Investigator(s): Pat Richardson, phone: 250-861-3952; email: patrichardson@shaw.ca
Start/End Date: August 2003 – to date
Location: Okanagan and Central Interior area of BC
Brief Description: Telling Our Stories is a basic 1½-hour introduction to FASD with a focus on awareness and prevention. The target audience is school students but is also suitable for other audiences. The presentation features young adults who have FASD and now includes birth mothers who drank alcohol during pregnancy and a young adult who has FASD who is co-parenting her child.
Time Frame: ongoing
Kind of Project: implementation
Population Served: all school students, pre-adoptive parents, urban and rural First Nations, teaching assistants, foster parents, restorative justice, church youth groups, FASD workshops and conferences, etc.
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