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New Jersey
FASD State Coordinator (NAFSC Member)Elizabeth Dahms, MS, RNC
Public Health Consultant
New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services
Perinatal Health Services
PO Box 364
Trenton, NJ 08625
609-292-5616
609-292-9288 Fax
elizabeth.dahms@doh.state.nj.us
Margaret Gray
Coordinator, Primary and Preventive Health Services
New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services
Perinatal Health Services
PO Box 364
Trenton, NJ 08625
609-292-5616
609-292-3580 Fax
margaret.gray@doh.state.nj.us FASD State Task Force
New Jersey Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders and Other Perinatal Addictions Task Force
Chair: Michael McCormack, Ph.D
FASD State Website
New Jersey Office for Prevention of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities
http://www.state.nj.us/humanservices/opmrdd/fasd/ FASD State Plan
New Jersey State Plan FASD State Resources
- Be In the Know New Jersey
http://www.beintheknownj.org
- The Department of Health and Senior Services http://www.nj.gov/health/fhs/prenatal/perinatal.shtml
- Maternal And Child Health (MCH) Hotline
1-800-722-2295
Available twenty-four hours/day, 7 days/week, The DHSS provides support to the regional Maternal and Child Health Consortia
(MCHC) for the Perinatal Addictions Prevention Project. These programs are responsible for training physicians to screen pregnant
women for alcohol, tobacco and other drugs, maintaining addiction and health services resource directories, providing perinatal
addictions education to a broad and varied audience and other related initiatives. DHSS also funds six regional FASD Diagnostic
Centers.
CDC FASD Regional Training Centers (RTCs)
**Northeastern FASD Regional Training Center
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
Michael Brimacombe, PhD
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
Department of Preventive Medicine
185 South Orange Avenue (MSB F-647)
Newark, NJ 07101-1709
Phone: (973) 972-5229
E-mail: brimacmb@umdnj.edu
(**Previously funded RTC) Legislative Information:
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A1908 
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Requirements for Professionals
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2008
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Requires DHSS and DHS to establish autism and intellectual and other developmental disabilities awareness program for certain
first responders. The state of New Jersey considers fetal alcohol syndrome to be a developmental delay.
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Approved 09/09/2008
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SB1015
A841
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Treatment
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2008
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Requires health insurers to cover costs of early intervention services for persons from birth to three years of age whose
primary diagnosis is developmental delay. The state of New Jersey considers fetal alcohol syndrome to be a developmental
delay.
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SB1015: Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Commerce Committee 01/28/2008
A841: Introduced, Referred to Assembly Financial Institutions and Insurance Committee 01/08/2008
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HB3837
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Treatment
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2007
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Requires health insurers to cover costs of early intervention services for persons from birth to three years of age whose
primary diagnosis is developmental delay. The state of New Jersey considers fetal alcohol syndrome to be a developmental
delay.
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Introduced, Referred to Assembly Financial Institutions and Insurance Committee 01/04/2007
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SB2303
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Treatment
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2006
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Requires health insurers to cover costs of early intervention services for persons from birth to three years of age whose
primary diagnosis is developmental delay. The state of New Jersey considers fetal alcohol syndrome to be a developmental
delay.
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Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Commerce Committee 11/13/2006
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A1629
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Treatment
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2004
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Requires health insurers to cover costs of early intervention services for persons from birth to three years of age whose
primary diagnosis is developmental delay. The state of New Jersey considers fetal alcohol syndrome to be a developmental
delay.
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Introduced, Referred to Assembly Financial Institutions and Insurance Committee 01/13/2004
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A.J.R. 88
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Prevention
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2004
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Designates September 9th of each year as "Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Awareness Day."
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Referred to Senate Health, Human Services, and Senior Citizens Committee 06/24/2004
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A3452
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Treatment
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2003
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Requires health insurers to cover costs of early intervention services for persons from birth to three years of age whose
primary diagnosis is developmental delay. The state of New Jersey considers fetal alcohol syndrome to be a developmental
delay.
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Introduced, Referred to Assembly Banking and Insurance Committee 03/13/2003
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