Fetal Alcohol Awareness Day

Today, September 9, is Fetal Alcohol Awareness Day.  Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) is a term that describes a range of disabilities that may affect people whose mothers drank alcohol while they were pregnant.  The Public Health Agency of Canada has a lot of information about this spectrum disorder. 

Today is an opportunity to increase public awareness about the dangers and implications of drinking alcohol while pregnant.  It's also an opportunity to make people aware of the challenges that people with FASD face.  FASD is not something we heard about during the needs assessment process.  For many people, however, it is a reality of their daily life.