State of Alaska Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) Program

Located in the Office of Substance Misuse and Addiction Prevention, the Statewide comprehensive FASD program includes community, state, and national partners to address the following components and selected activities:

Education, Training and Technical Assistance

• Education
• Legal is not safe conversation cards
  
• Public events: film screenings, listening circles, community
  conversations, conference presentations
• Networks, Collaborations & Coalitions: Alaska Alliance-United to Prevent Alcohol Misuse & Promote Community Wellness
  
• Examining FASD Diagnosis in Alaska Project ECHO
• Global FASD Awareness Campaign - Red Shoes Rock
  
• Training
• Alaska FASD Provider Network
  
• Caregiver as Educator trainings
  
• Whitecrow Life Session: Family Education and Workforce Development
• FASD Training in Alaska: Where we’ve been and where we need to go This report includes a baseline assessment of FASD training activities in Alaska, a survey of community stakeholders and FASD trainers, a framework for the development of future trainings and related recommendations for the FASD program.
  
  
  

FASD Community stakeholders work together to help create training that makes a difference.

 

• Technical Assistance
• Responds to TA requests from Federal, Tribal, State and Alaska Local entities related to prenatal alcohol exposure.
• Works with education, healthcare, justice-related and other system partners to improve FASD supports and increase awareness of prenatal alcohol exposure.
  
• Governor's Council on Special Education and Developmental Disabilities FASD Workgroup
  
• Alaska Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Strategic Plan 2017-2022

Data, Research and Evaluation


• Data
• Managing AKAIMS reporting to include/combine all state funded FASD records
• Research
• Working with the Collaborative Initiative on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (CIFASD) to activate research efforts developing supports for people impacted by prenatal alcohol exposure.
• Kenai Peninsula Community FASD informed Framework
• Evaluation
• FASD Program planning and statewide activities baseline assessment report
  

BRAIN-online FASD Screening Tool

 BRAIN-online is a new web-based screening tool that assesses cognitive and behavioral features known to be associated with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD). If you think that you or someone you care for may have FASD, BRAIN-online can act as the first step in connecting to a diagnosis.




Screening, Diagnoses and Supports


• Screening
• Reviewing screening tools useful for a variety of populations
• Working with the Collaborative Initiative on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders to support a variety of accessible electronic screening tools
  
• Diagnoses
• Managing the Multi-interdisciplinary Community based FASD Diagnostic Teams
• Statewide FASD Diagnostic Team Coordinator Network
  
• Supports
  
• Assess Case management program
• Navigating Transitioning into Adulthood: Supports available