Competency 4: Prevention
Addiction Disorders in Women
FASD Prevention Resources
Materials are available that can be used in FASD prevention efforts. Many of these are for general populations, but some can be used with women in treatment or aftercare. Others have been developed for specific populations, such as Native women.
- Alberta Children’s Services
FASD materials (order at www.child.alberta.ca/home/images/fetalalcoholspectrumdisorder/CS3297I.pdf
) - An Inner Voice Tells You Not to Drink or Use Other Drugs poster, http://ncadi.samhsa.gov/govpubs/av161/
- Association of Iroquois and Allied
Indians, Guarding the Unborn Spirit resources, www.kemmurchproductions.com/store.htm
- Health Canada, Brochures, It Takes
a Community manual, www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fniah-spnia/pubs/famil/_preg-gros/2001_takes-prend-commun/frame-cadre_chap05-eng.php
- Pauktuutit Inuit Women's Association,
Before I was Born resources, www.pauktuutit.ca/FAS/index.html
- Rural Cap Alaska, Early Decisions
resources, http://www.ruralcap.com/
Organizations that have information and resources include:
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, www.samhsa.gov
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Center for Excellence, http://fasdcenter.samhsa.gov
- National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information, http://store.samhsa.gov/
- American Society of Addiction Medicine, www.asam.org
- Colorado FAS/ Alcohol
Tobacco and Other Drug Prevention Program, www.uchsc.edu/ahec/fas/
- FAS Diagnostic and Prevention Network, http://depts.washington.edu/fasdpn/index.htm
- Minnesota Organization on Fetal Alcohol
Syndrome, www.mofas.org
- National Organization on Fetal Alcohol
Syndrome, www.nofas.org
- NineZero (Nine months, zero alcohol),
Arc of Riverside, www.ninezero.org/
- University of Washington Fetal Alcohol
and Drug Unit, http://depts.washington.edu/fadu/
