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Model-guided FASD and Neurodevelopment Service Planning

Awareness of alcohol’s impact on the developing fetus has increased the number of FASD diagnoses or suspected cases. This session will explore the disability using a training tool that organizes areas of neurodevelopment to identify strengths and deficits. This will help you develop client-centered treatment, education planning and caregiving support. This model-guided training demonstrates what to capture – both formal and informal client information – and prompts thinking about the impact of diffuse brain function and postnatal experiences to inform long-term planning needs of clients and their families. It will help enhance decisions when seeking a diagnosis or when explaining the needs of their clients with complex or confusing neurodevelopmental profiles.

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Description

This training is designed for professionals tasked with organizing treatment programs and care plans for individuals with complex neurodevelopment profiles. It introduces a planning strategy designed to reinforce a deeper understanding of FASD, emerging best practices, and the issues that require enhanced responses.

Individuals and families living with FASD are frequent seekers of specialized health, education and mental health services but report poor outcomes that can destabilize lives. Maintaining stability requires understanding and confidence to explain a confusing pattern of development, function and pre and postnatal experiences: trauma, neglect, disability. Formal assessments and informal reports hold keys to atypical neurodevelopment that improve outcomes when they are identified, explained and integrated into mainstream service protocols.

FASD Community of Practice (Badry 2018) identified a need for common language and service coordination. This required a framework for professionals who were still learning to integrate FASD knowledge into their practice. Research on FASD, secondary disabilities, and adverse outcomes (Streissguth et al, 1996, 1997, Conry and Fast 2000, May 2004) is combined with the Canadian FASD Diagnosis Guidelines (2015) to help organize our understanding and response to FASD.

Learning Outcomes

1) Explain FASD terminology, the diagnostic process and assessment criteria

2) Identify areas of brain function impacted by prenatal exposure to alcohol

3) Understand FASD profile variables and postnatal factors that impact the individual and the family

4) Define elements for placement stability and enhanced outcomes

5) Describe FASD service planning and considerations for long-term support

Price

Member Fee: $67.80 (includes HST)

Non-Member Fee: $84.75 (includes HST)

GROUP DISCOUNT: Save 20% off individual fee with group registration of 4 or more participants. Contact: angela@safeguards-training.net

 

Course Dates & Location

November 16, 2020 9:30 am – 12:00 pm

This is a 2.5 hour webinar using Zoom

Instructor

Sheila Burns

Sheila Burns is a member of the Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services FASD Expert Group and the Health Nexus FASD Joint Advisory Board. She has held leadership roles in FASD Ontario Network of Expertise as Network chair and lead of the Diagnostic Capacity and Justice action groups and was a Law Foundation of Ontario Community Leadership in Justice Fellow. Sheila has a background in children’s mental health, youth justice, women’s issues, and community development that informed the emerging vision for FASD prevention and improved interventions in Ontario. Her Law Foundation research identified the value of FASD training and its long-term impact on service provision and client success. She trains and consults with agencies and cross-sector, multidisciplinary community collaboratives (Community of Practice) to build professional competence and integrate more effective service responses.

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