FAS-eD Project
NOFAS-UK has been awarded a grant from the Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA) to conduct a project on developing resources for teachers relating to children and young people with FASD. The project team include Project Director, Prof. Barry Carpenter, OBE, Researcher, Carolyn Blackburn, and Research Associate, Jo Egerton.
For more information, contact: info@fasdeducation.org.uk
May 2009 - Press release
Baby Bundle Project for Midwives
The "Baby Bundle Project" or "Alcohol in Pregnancy - Training for Midwives Project" is an initiative of NOFAS-UK to provide useful positive health information about the consumption of alcohol in pregnancy to midwives. Midwives play an important role and can help prevent FASD.
As part of this project, NOFAS-UK organised three study days (two in London and one in Birmingham) to provide information on Alcohol in Pregnancy. The response was tremendous with 226 people attending the training and over 50 on the waiting list. The audience not only included midwives, but also health care workers, substance misuse counselors etc.
Eminent speakers included Amanda Salmon (Manager, Aquarius Birmingham Hospitals Service), Nicola Moore (Specialist Midwife for Alcohol and Substance Misuse, Homerton University Hospital), Jean Deenmamode (Senior Biomedical Scientist, Homerton University Hospital) and Moira Marks (Specialist Midwife, Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital).
"Nil Alcohol in Pregnancy", "Take No Risk", "Prevent FASD" were the key take-aways.
NOFAS-UK has also published a booklet "Alcohol and Pregnancy - Information for Midwives".
Click here to see a preview of the booklet.
For more information, contact NOFAS-UK.
This project has been reviewed by the Royal College of Midwives, The International FASD Medical Advisory Panel, and has been made possible by an education grant from DIAGEO.
A helpful tip from one our midwives:- Avoid using judgmental statements and open the conversation with a pregnant woman by asking “What do you know about alcohol during pregnancy?”
Feedback Received..
“An excellent study day … This will totally change my practice and the team I lead. I will be getting the leaflets for my department.”
“I feel better equipped to give information to mothers. NOFAS should present at the Local Supervising Authority’s Conference so more midwives become aware and able to give the right information to pregnant women.”
“The whole study day was valuable. Before this…I never knew FASD existed. I enjoyed this study day it helped me think about my own practice. I wasn’t aware of problems that can arise.”
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