Educational Resources

The Asante Centre provides a number of educational opportunities via workshops and experiential learning initiatives. Visit our upcoming events page to see if we are hosting any events in your area. Click here to contact the Centre if your organization wants to host its own training session.

POPFASD

In September, 2006, the Ministry of Education announced a new provincial resource program: The Provincial Outreach Program for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (POPFASD). Part of our mandate is to provide services through our website so that teachers, parents, students and others increase their understanding of FASD. Through consultation with teachers and other experts in the field of FASD, we use this website as a vehicle for providing information about the effects of FASD on student learning and behaviour. We share current research, ideas, strategies, training and resources in order to build capacity in school districts for students with FASD and their teachers.

We also liaise with designated District Partners for FASD from each district; this allows us to communicate through one key individual from each district regarding in-service and support need. We welcome your input and feedback…and we want to hear from you.

http://www.fasdoutreach.ca/

Teaching Students with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

This resource guide is organized around areas of concern identified by experienced classroom and integration support teachers. Its goal is to provide teachers with a clear understanding of the needs of students with FAS/E

If you are a classroom teacher who, for the first time, is about to teach a student with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome or Fetal Alcohol Effect (FAS/E), this guide can be helpful. Many of the strategies are general and may be appropriate for use with students who are not diagnosed with FAS/E, but who do share some of the learning needs of students with FAS/E.
http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/specialed/fas/

The Yukon Government has also put together a resource "Making a Difference,Working with Student Who Have Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder.
http://www.education.gov.yk.ca/pdf/fasd_manual_2007.pdf

Teaching Students with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: Building Strengths, Creating Hope

This resource guide is produced by the Alberta Learning Special Programs Branch (2004) and provides teachers information and specific strategies to better meet the learning needs of students with FASD.
http://www.education.gov.ab.ca/k_12/specialneeds/fasd/fasd.pdf

Motherisk: Journal Of FAS International

This new journal and on-line resource is working to advance the search for new knowledge and solutions to FASD-related problems including the role of poverty, homelessness, psychiatric morbidity, social disparity, other drugs of abuse, poor nutrition and lack of medical care during pregnancy.
http://www.motherisk.org/JFAS/about.php

Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse: Other Organizations

There are many organizations across Canada that serve to educate various groups on FAS-related topics. The CCSA has a comprehensive list by province:
http://www.ccsa.ca/pdf/ccsa-008036-2003.pdf