MomTalk with Kristen Eriksen & Laura Bedard of MassFAS

Welcome to Season 3 of the FASD Family Life Podcast. I am your host, Robbie Seale. I am an FASD educator, advocate and mom of five incredible people; including three teens diagnosed with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder. If my 30 years of parenting has taught me anything it is that the struggle is real and so is success.

This third season of the FASD Family Life podcast is a lot of fun. It's called MomTalk. I invited other mom's raising children and youth with FASD to join me for a coffee and a chat about real life, real struggles and real successes. It is my hope that by listening to our conversations you have the sense that you are not alone; we all get things wrong and we find that when we know better we can do better.

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Please join me and my special guests, Kristin Eriksen and Laura Bedard for a nice hot cup of coffee as we talk about adoption, REAL LIFE raising children and teens with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, diagnosis, support groups, advocacy and their joint venture as founders of MassFas.

MassFAS serves as a centralized resource for issues related to FASD in Massachusetts. 
At massFAS we:

• Develop and build an FASD Task Force.
• Provide FASD trainings upon request to a variety of state and local organizations including schools.
• Provide diagnostic and intervention resources to families of children and young adults who may have a FASD.
• Build FASD diagnostic capacity with Boston Children’s Hospital; maintain a list of other in-state resources.
• Provide FASD prevention, identification, and intervention training and resources to DPH/BSAS licensed ambulatory and residential treatment programs. ‍
• We offer resources and a free weekly online support group for parents and caregivers. Contact us for more information. 

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EPISODE RESOURCES:
mASSfas: https://www.massfas.org/
FASD United: https://fasdunited.org/
Boston Children's Hospital:  Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) (childrenshospital.org)
The Brenner Centre (FASD Diadnositic Centre): https://www.williamjames.edu/centers-and-services/forensic-and-clinical-services/brenner-center/specialized-assessment-of-fetal-alcohol-spectrum-disorders.html

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