Now offering our NEW session, Strategies to Support! An online, discussion based session where we talk strategies and tools to support. About this Event As a follow up to our introductory session, FASD 101, this workshop is being offered online via Zoom by our Community Prevention staff, Tammy Predovic and Chris Chabot. This two hour session … [Read more...] about Webinar: FASD 201: Strategies to Support
Opportunities
Webinar: Supporting Caregivers through Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
We will be hosting a new webinar with Dr. Brianne Redquest, our 2021 Dr. Sterling Clarren FASD Research Award winner, on March 19, 2021 at 1:00 pm Eastern Time. Dr. Redquest is a postdoctoral fellow with the Azrieli Adult Neurodevelopmental Centre at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. Her research looks at the effect of Acceptance and … [Read more...] about Webinar: Supporting Caregivers through Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Webinar: Results from the Changemakers ‘Lay of the Land Survey #2’
The Adult Leadership Committee (ALC) of FASD Changemakers has done it again! Following the official publication* of their Lay of the Land Survey #1 which focused on the health of 500+ adults with a diagnosis of FASD, they have now completed a 350+ question Lay of the Land Survey #2: What Really Matters – Life as We Live It of 450 adults with FASD. … [Read more...] about Webinar: Results from the Changemakers ‘Lay of the Land Survey #2’
FASD Symposium on 26-January-2021
We’re making history this year at the annual FASD Symposium … not only is this the first time we’ve ever hosted the event virtually, but we’ve smashed our previous attendance records for this event. There are now over 300 people registered to join us to dialogue about Managing Challenging Behaviours in Children, Youth and Adults with FASD. We have … [Read more...] about FASD Symposium on 26-January-2021
ACEs & Resilience Training
In order to support communities during the COVID-19 crisis and beyond, service provides can access a new course developed by ACE’s Coalition in Guelph and Wellington County. The course is free of charge and provides self-directed ACEs and Resilience Learning Modules that are intended for human service professionals (including but not limited to, … [Read more...] about ACEs & Resilience Training
The Sting of Stigma: Recognizing Stigma and Its Impacts
Canadians now have access to an interactive online learning resource to increase understanding and awareness of substance use and addiction, and the stigma surrounding them. Overcoming Stigma Through Language is a new bilingual resource that is being developed by the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA) in partnership with the … [Read more...] about The Sting of Stigma: Recognizing Stigma and Its Impacts