Contact Local Health Boards
Take action!! FASD Awareness Month actions: Check out what National FASD’s new report, “Not Commissioned” says about your local area (for those in England and Wales) Contact your local healthcare officials to find out what their plans are for ramping up FASD services (for everyone across the UK) Highlight ways that FASD services in […]
6 – National Read a Book Day – read about FASD
Take action!! FASD Awareness Month National FASD is releasing daily actions that you can do to help spread FASD Awareness this month. Today’s actions: Read something together with someone with FASD for National Read A Book Day Or share your favourite FASD book and tell us why Or thank an author of a book about […]
Contact local leaders
It’s here!! FASD Awareness Month Action: Contact an elected official in your local government to educate them, get their support or thank them for what they have done for you already. Hashtags:#FASDNotCommissioned, #FASDStrongerTogether BACKGROUND Local officials and elected members can be helpful in getting support for people with FASD. As they are local, they often […]
Find support
It’s here!! FASD Awareness Month Today’s actions: Connect with local support for FASD If you are the member of a group, share the group’s info in social media Hashtags: #FASDUK #FASDStrongerTogether BACKGROUND The FASD UK Alliance is coalition of independent groups and individuals from across the UK who are united together for positive social change […]
3 – Doodle Day
It’s here!! FASD Awareness Month National FASD will be releasing daily actions that you can do to help spread FASD Awareness this month. Today’s actions: Doodle something about FASD, and share it on social media Today’s Hashtags:#DoodleDay #FASDDoodle #FASDMonthUK BACKGROUND Today is National Doodle Day, created by Epilepsy Action, to support people affected by epilepsy. […]
FASD Song
It’s here!! FASD Awareness Month Today’s actions: Play this song for someone with FASD (or blast it and enjoy it if you have FASD) Share The FASD Song in social media HASHTAGS: #FASDSong #FASDStrongerTogether https://youtu.be/LzgBWDQsp6A BACKGROUND INFORMATION How did The FASD Song come about? “The FASD Song” was written by TB, a member of […]
Contact Media
It’s here!! Welcome to FASD Awareness Month Contact the media and/ or make a pledge to raise awareness Contact the media Below is sample press release and a background sheet that you can provide (we also have word files you can download and attach). How to find your local media? Google your local […]
Mandy Craig & Katie Hewitt on ‘The Time is Now’
A guest blog post by Mandy Craig & Katie Hewitt In September 2021, Sheffield Children’s Safeguarding Partnership hosted the National Dialogue on International FASD Day Conference, chaired by Sheffield’s Director of Public Health and with over 700 people attending to hear professionals, politicians, and experts-by-experience share their knowledge and passion for improving the lives and […]
WPI Students Help Map Out Potential Support Needs for UK Adults and Young Adults with FASD
Over the course of this Spring, Caitlin Bonavita, Grace Casey, and Josie Kim, 3rd year science and engineering university students from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in the US, have worked together on an informative project with National FASD that begins to shine a light on the need for more to be done in the UK […]
Dr Patricia Jackson on ‘The Time is Now’
A guest blog post by Dr Patricia Jackson I am writing from my base in Scotland, and it has been a real pleasure to be involved with the UK-wide round table discussions leading up to the publication of ‘The Time is Now’. If you haven’t read it yet, you are missing out. It’s an amazingly […]
