SAMHSA FASD Center for Excellence

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SAMHSA FASD Center for Excellence

• Building FASD State Systems
• May 10, 2006
• Callie Gass, Project Director

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Provide technical assistance to communities who
do not have a comprehensive system of care for
such individuals and their families. Identify
communities that offer an exemplary comprehensive
system of care for such individuals so that they
can provide technical assistance to other
communities attempting to set up such a system of
care.
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Providing Technical Assistance

• Several sources for technical assistance
• Information resource center
• Expert consultation
• Customized research
• Targeted technical assistance, including site
  visits, from senior staff
• Mentoring relationships

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Supporting State Responses

• The Center continues to mentor and provide
  support to States embarking on FASD initiatives
• Pennsylvania Perinatal Partnership convened a
  meeting in Philadelphia to initiate its planning
• Connecticut working group addressing need for a
  State-level response
• Nevada convened two Town Halls in Reno and in Las
  Vegas with support and TA from the Center
• Utah convened a Statewide planning summit

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Working together

• Virginia State Task Force convened in Richmond
  and heard presentations from the Center
• District of Columbia has designated a State
  Coordinator
• Representatives from Savannah, Georgia, have been
  consulting with the Center

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Creating FASD Responses in Native Communities

• Convened quarterly stakeholder meetings
• Organized a special trainer session for American
  Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian
  trainers
• Provided technical assistance and training to
  tribes including
• Crow Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas
• Navajo Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska
• Dakota Sioux Yaqui

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First Institute for American Indian
Professionals San Diego, June 2006
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Resource Kit for Native Communities

• Updates the IHS Toolkit
• Includes posters, templates for print materials,
  and culturally competent brochures and booklets
• Designed to be distributed through NCADI

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Building Capacity Field Trainers

• Provided booster session for 71 field trainers in
  December 2005
• Since September 2005, field trainers have
  provided 20 trainings for 874 participants
• Provided TA in Nevada and California

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Building Capacity Subcontracts

• Subcontractors attended Alaska Summit
• 16 subcontractors trained on FASD screening using
  facial screen and paper records
• Several sites have received training on
  interventions from experts
• Technical assistance provided on organizing and
  planning from specialists

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Building Capacity Subcontracts

• Arc Community Center (WI) participated in the
  Statewide Womens AODA Treatment Project
• Bucks County (PA) helped initiate the
  Pennsylvania workgroup
• Capital Area Human Services District (LA)
  participated in the LA State Epidemiology
  Workgroup
• Ohio, Mississippi, and others have held or are
  planning Statewide conferences

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Building Capacity Expanding Diagnostic Capacity

• Supporting the development or expansion of two
  FASD diagnostic centers
• Increasing diagnostic capacity to support
  juvenile courts and others
• One court developed inhouse capacity to conduct
  FASD diagnostic evaluations
• Sharing experience through articles and
  presentations
• Diagnostic capacity and consistency remain a
  challenge to the field

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• Provide training to community leaders, mental
  health and substance abuse professionals,
  families, law enforcement personnel, judges,
  health professionals, persons working in
  financial assistance programs, social service
  personnel, child welfare professionals, and other
  service providers on the implications of fetal
  alcohol syndrome and alcohol-related birth
  defects, the early identification of, and
  referral for such conditions

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Training

• September 2005 through March 2006
• 87 trainings
• 4,054 participants
• 27 States, including DC

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Providing Information Web site

• Launched an improved, updated Center Web site
• Launched the Spanish language companion site
• http//fascenter.samhsa.gov/fasdsp/index.cfm

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Web Trends
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Becoming a Respected Source

• The number of Web sites linking to us increases
  steadily
• In September, 13 in October, 23
• Includes universities, state and local
  government, and foreign health departments
• Web site received a 5-star rating from the Tufts
  University Child Family WebGuide

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Providing Information New Materials

• Grab and Go
• WYNTK FASD and the Criminal Justice System
• WYNTK How FASD Co-Occurs with Mental Illness
• WYNTK Independent Living for Persons with FASD
• FASD The Basics Online and mini-CD
• FASD Center Brochure

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More.

• Reports and Proceedings
• Building FASD State Systems Proceedings, July
  2005
• Circle of Hope Meeting Proceedings, July 2005
• FASD Legislation by State (October 2005)
• Hope for Women in Recovery Summit Proceedings,
  July 2005
• Review of Instructional Materials on FASD

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The Centers Best Sellers
NCADI Distribution
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FASD the Basics
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Introducing Tools for Success

• A new curriculum for training professionals in
  the juvenile justice system
• Developed in partnership with MOFAS
• 8 trainer teams trained this April
• Previewed on Tuesday night

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FASD The Course

• Interactive online course for professionals,
  policy makers, parents, and families
• Peer reviewed, usability tested, 508 compliant

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Curriculum for Addiction Professionals (CAP)

• Two level curriculum
• Targeted to anyone working in Substance Abuse
• Addresses FASD in the context of treatment
• Basics of FASD
• FASD prevention in treatment
• Working with clients with an FASD
• Working with clients with children with FASDs

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Curriculum for Addiction Professionals (CAP)

• Level 1 Interactive, online course with test
  yourself options
• Level 2 Train-the-trainer model with hands-on
  exercises and scenarios

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Resources for Families

• Can I Catch It? My Sibling Has an FASD

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Resources for Families

• What Do I Do? Helping Your Kids Understand Their
  Siblings FASD

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• Study adaptations of innovative clinical
  interventions and service delivery improvement
  strategies for children and adults with Fetal
  Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) or Alcohol-Related Birth
  Defects (ARBD) and their families
• Develop innovative techniques for preventing
  alcohol use by women in their child-bearing years

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Prevention Women Reaching Women

• Completed the third and final pilot of the
  Womens Summits Raleigh, NC
• Each summit has triggered policy initiatives in
  its state
• How-to manual is in draft form and about to be
  submitted to SAMHSA

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Prevention Women Reaching Women

• Supported Circle of Hope, a NOFAS organized
  effort for women to support women
• Convened the first meeting of the Circle of Hope
  in conjunction with the Raleigh Womens Summit

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Prevention Reaching Women to Prevent Alcohol
Exposed Pregnancies

• Alcohol screening and intervention integrated
  into maternity, family planning, WIC, home
  visitation, and other programs
• Contraception assessment and intervention
  integrated into alcohol treatment for women and
  programs for women of childbearing age
• Four Parent-Child Assistance Programs

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Identifying and Treating Youth with an FASD

• FASD screening and intervention integrated into
  juvenile and dependency courts, juvenile justice
  and other settings
• FASD residential treatment developed that is
  showing significant improvements in youth
• FASD interventions and modification of existing
  treatments are being developed