Powerful Truths About FASDs and Little Heroes

Advancing the conversation about the issues of health and social welfare.

Missed the recent webinar on FASDs? No Problem.

In case you missed the recent webinar, The Powerful Truths About FASD, featuring Dr. Ira J. Chasnoff and hosted by Mike Berry of Confessions of a Parent: Hope and Humor from the Trenches, please enjoy this free link to the recording.

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Little Heroes: An Educational Comic Book for Parents and Children

Little Heroes is a series of stories written about children who face a variety of challenges in their everyday lives. The series is meant to guide you, through story and pictures, to help children understand why they feel the way they do based on problems that are beyond their control. Each comic book is accompanied by a Parent's Guide that provides a much fuller explanation of each of the comic book topics.
All of the Little Heroes books are based on true stories of children and families treated by Dr. Ira J. Chasnoff and his clinical team. The comic books engage children by providing fun illustrations with easy-to-understand stories and can also be used as coloring books. Little Heroes #1: FASDs includes educational games and puzzles.

$10/book, includes both the comic and Parent's Guide.
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5 Little Heroes books to choose from:

• Little Heroes #1: FASDs (available in English and Spanish)
• Little Heroes #2: Adoption and Foster Care (on sale)
• Little Heroes #3: Overseas Adoption (on sale)
• Little Heroes #4: Sensory Integration
• Little Heroes #5: Military Separation

Our latest addition to the series, Little Heroes #5: Military Separation, helps families cope with being separated during a military deployment. It can be used to help families explain the separation to their children and prepare them for the challenges they will face. The accompanying Parent's Guide provides a fuller explanation of the effects of military deployment and prolonged separation on the family.

Check out our online store for more resources on FASDs, attachment, prenatal care, adoption, and more.

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Webinar: Parenting Teens with FASD. Register Today!

NTI Upstream 2014 Webinar Series

Adolescents with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders 

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Webinar #4:  Parenting the Adolescent with FASD

This session will offer first-hand experience of parenting an adolescent with FASD. The webinar, facilitated by Dr. Ira Chasnoff, will feature Carole Hurley, a single adoptive mother of two who is raising both an adolescent and a younger child with FASD. Information will include how she handles day-to-day struggles and where she goes to find assistance. This is an excellent opportunity to ask direct questions about raising children with FASD and to learn from her experience.

In 2013, Carole became the Chief Administrative Law Judge for the Texas Health and Human Services Commission.  She is Chair of the State Bar Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect, Chair of the Travis County Child Protective Services Board, and is a member of the Texas Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) Prevention Task Force.  Her most important job, though, is being Kara and Emma Hurley's mom.

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Presented by Ira J. Chasnoff, MD and Carole Hurley

August 14, 2014, 1:00-2:00 p.m. CDT

Q & A 2:00-2:15 p.m. CDT

Price: $19.99

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2014 Webinar #3: Sexual Development & Sexuality in Adolescents with FASD

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2014 Webinar #2: Adolescents with FASD: School and Academic Functioning
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2014 Webinar #1: Neurodevelopment in the Adolescent with FASD
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About the NTI Upstream 2014 Webinar Series 

The 2014 NTI Upstream webinar series, Adolescents with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders, will explore various facets of physical and emotional development of adolescents with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD). The series will include in-depth explanation of how FASD adolescents' basic neurobehavioral deficits - neurocognitive, self-regulation, and adaptive behaviors - are demonstrated in behavior. The development of youth with FASD will be compared to the expression of "normal" adolescent development (social, search for independence, consequences of behavior, executive function, etc.).

Please visit www.ntiupstream.com for more information!

Sexual Development & Sexuality in Adolescents with FASD

NTI Upstream 2014 Webinar Series

Adolescents with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders 

Webinar #3: Sexual  Development & Sexuality in Adolescents with FASD

Physical and emotional sexual development is a complicated process for any adolescent. Those with FASD experience enhanced and significant difficulties when developing sexually. The information provided in this webinar will explain how physical sexual development and emotional development mesh in the adolescent with FASD. This segment will explain strategies for managing emerging sexuality in adolescents with FASD.

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Presented by Ira J. Chasnoff, MD and Jenae Holtz, LMFT
June 5, 2014, 1:00-2:00 p.m. CDT
Q & A 2:00-2:15 p.m. CDT

Price: $19.99

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2014 Webinar #2: Adolescents with FASD: School and 

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2014 Webinar #1: Neurodevelopment in the Adolescent with FASD
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About the NTI Upstream 2014 Webinar Series 

The 2014 NTI Upstream webinar series, Adolescents with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders, will explore various facets of physical and emotional development of adolescents with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD). The series will include in-depth explanation of how FASD adolescents' basic neurobehavioral deficits - neurocognitive, self-regulation, and adaptive behaviors - are demonstrated in behavior. The development of youth with FASD will be compared to the expression of "normal" adolescent development (social, search for independence, consequences of behavior, executive function, etc.).

FASD: Risk, Development and Intervention Webinar

Register now for Webinar #2: Effective Management of ADHD in Children with FASD

Children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders may benefit from medications to address Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and other co-morbid conditions. However, children with a Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder present in a more complex way than do children in the general population. A comprehensive understanding of how ADHD should be identified and treated in children affected by prenatal exposure to alcohol is essential for professionals working with these children in order to develop an effective treatment plan including medication in combination with appropriate therapeutic interventions. 

REGISTER FOR WEBINAR #2

Presented by Dr. Gwendolyn Messer
May 7, 2012, 2:00-3:00 p.m. Eastern Time
Live Q & A 3:00-3:15 p.m. Eastern Time

Price: $12.99

CEUs are available for social workers through the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB). Each webinar is worth one (1) CEU and requires the successful completion of a ten-question post-test (sold separately).

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Upcoming Webinars

NTI Upstream's webinars are designed to help individuals and communities translate clinically-based research into strategies that serve families and children affected by prenatal substance exposure.This first series of webinars focuses on advanced topics in Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders. It has been developed with experienced clinicians, attorneys, child welfare, adoptive and foster parents, and social service professionals in mind.                     

June 25 - Infant Mental Health and FASD: How do Children with Prenatal Alcohol Exposure Present in Infancy? - REGISTER NOW

August 27 - FASD and the Courts - REGISTER NOW

October 29 - FASD in Adolescents: Special Considerations - REGISTER NOW

December 17 - Eight Steps to Managing a Child's Difficult Behavior - REGISTER NOW

Please visit www.ntiupstream.com/ntiwebinars for more information!