Connect FASD is a full spectrum of support programs and services, helpline and information sharing hub available to all members of the public through a partnership between the Calgary Fetal Alcohol Network, and the Foothills Fetal Alcohol Society.
This project, released in September of 2021, resulted from both agencies’ desire to combine their strengths in service delivery, information delivery, support services, and networking to meet a need in the greater Calgary urban and rural areas.
Our support program was built on a desire to create programs to:
- Help people impacted by FASD, and their caregivers, and communities, to achieve their best lived potential through support over a lifespan.
- Make programs easier to navigate from a one-line telephone service to help people to access services to match their unique needs for assessment/diagnosis, education, lifestyle support and understanding.
- Connect caregivers for children and adults with FASD to a knowledgeable community of professionals, and other caregivers.
- Respond to professionals who needed a reliable source of information to increase their own knowledge capacities about FASD, to better support their clients.
- Assist human service agencies working with vulnerable populations that needed to know who to talk to, for supporting the unique needs of individuals impacted by FASD.
- Give reliable information to people curious about FASD who need a safe place to learn about alcohol and pregnancy, in recognition of the many misconceptions and stigmas associated with FASD.
These identified needs inspired a partnership to bring together CFAN and FFAS with a new approach, building on the unified desire to support our communities and our network.
The result of our efforts has cumulated to the creation of ConnectFASD, to serve as a one-stop hub to meet the needs of individuals, professionals, and communities to be FASD informed.
We exist to make life better for anyone impacted by FASD.
