FASD-informed practice acknowledges the need to see beyond an individual’s presenting behaviours and to ask.....‘What does this person need?’ rather than ‘What is wrong with this person?’
Up to 75% of all children in care or leaving it will have prenatal exposure to alcohol, join us to become an FASD Informed team to support early intervention.
Our offer in bitesize chunks tailored to your clinical expertise, dip in and out at your pace:
FASD Informed™ Professional Stage 1: What is Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder?….. no assumptions, all multi-disciplinary professionals starting at the same place at a gentle pace
FASD Informed™ Professional Stage 2: Interpreting theory into practice, strategies to support FASD, communication, confabulation & challenging behaviour
FASD Informed™ Professional Stage 3: Understanding the needs & service demands of families; adapting practice to meet short and long term needs
FASD Informed™ Professional Stage 4: FASD NICE Quality Standards & Good Practice informing FASD Responsive Practice; reflection and case management
We tailor our bespoke FASD-Informed offer around your services and the needs of the families you support.
We listen to the needs of your service and adapt our bespoke FASD training offer at the right level where we provide a pathway to CPD higher level of learning for professionals.
We recognise that neurodevelopmental trauma informed best practice support for families underpins everything that you do. We will help support you to embed FASD-Informed practice instinctively into all core practice.
FASD continues to be a frequently misunderstood condition, those who are not appropriately trained or knowledgeable can often make inaccurate assumptions due to the fact that many individuals with FASD can superficially present as more able than they actually are, due to their spiky cognitive and neurodevelopmental profiles.
With up to 428 co-occurring neurodevelopmental conditions common to FASD, spanning across 18 of 22 chapters of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) -10. The most prevalent disease conditions include congenital malformations, deformities, and chromosomal abnormalities, mental and behavioural disorders.
£50 per candidate per session including CPD Certification & FASD Resources to support practice
FASD InformedTM Education delivered by a strong experienced qualified team, tailoring a bespoke service to support your team in becoming FASD ResponsiveTM
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