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Today is FASD Awareness Day!!
Take your pledge today by committing to not drinking during your pregnancy! Show your support by not consuming alcohol today! Please pass this message along!

Today I want to share with everyone an important website. With all the violence happening locally I think that its especially important to recognize the signs and help prevent our vulnerable youth from leading this lifestyle.

~ Robyn

http://www.cfseu.bc.ca/en/end-gang-life

End Gang Life END GANG LIFE is a comprehensive gang education, prevention, and awareness campaign that uses bold, emotional, and visually impactful images and messages to:

From all of us at Delta Connex ~ we would like to extend a Happy Easter weekend to each of you! Be safe this Easter weekend!

We found some great charts to help you have a better understanding of trauma and the brain. From Dr Janina Fisher's website. Take a peek here, there are a few pages to flip through:

http://www.janinafisher.com/flipchart-1.php

Janina Fisher, PhD :: Resources http://www.janinafisher.com/flipchart-1.php

Did you know we host a Delta Connex Parent Peer Group ?
It's the last Friday of every month!
9:30-11:30 (excluding July, August and December)

Our next one is February 27, 2015 (Tomorrow!)

Where:
Reach Child & Youth Development Society
#3-3800 72nd Street
Ladner, BC

The parent group is an opportunity for parents with children who have ADHD, FASD or other complex behaviours to come together. At the group you can learn and reflect on your life as a parent of children that may behave in ways that are unexpected and a challenge to understand. You will gain insight in building positive relationships, celebrating your children and focus on your emotional well being. We provide a welcoming and safe environment to share experiences, knowledge and offer support to each other. This group is led by a trained facilitator.

For more information please contact:
Robyn Lane
Key Worker / Behavioural Consultant
Delta Connex Program
604-946-6622 ext 328
[email protected]

Here's an amazing 3D video of a fetus growing in a womb. We want to remind everyone, that no alcohol is best for a growing and developing fetus. No proven amount of alcohol is safe. For more information please contact us at Delta Connex.


http://banoosh.tv/9-months-pregnancy-life-4-minutes-beyond-amazing/

YOUR 9 MONTHS PREGNANCY LIFE IN 4 MINUTES!!! YOUR 9 MONTHS PREGNANCY LIFE IN 4 MINUTES!!! THIS IS BEYOND AMAZING!!!

We hope everyone remembered to wear pink today - to stand up and stand together against bullying. Bullying is still very much apart of our culture. Your Delta Connex team supports National Wear Pink Day and wore pink today to fight against bullying. Show us your Pink pictures 😊

Delta Connex Team
Camille, Lisa, Robyn and Angela. 💝

February 25, 2015 is National Pink Shirt Day. Bullying is still very present within our schools, communities as well as online. Stand together with us on this day and wear pink! 💝

Robyn.

http://www.pinktshirtday.ca

Pink T-Shirt Day Anti Bullying Campaign Pink T-Shirt Day Anti Bullying Campaign

Hi everyone,

We are terribly sorry for the delay in our postings. Our goal is to post more regularly in the coming future. We are encouraging everyone to share this page.

I found this wonderful article on Springtime Anxiety. If you have a worrier on your hands, please check it out! 💝

Robyn

http://www.jackhirose.com/2013/04/11/featured-article-springtime-worries-by-lynn-lyons-m-s-w/

Featured Article: Springtime Worries I know it doesn’t truly feel like springtime yet in our northern climes (I’m in New Hampshire), but I want to offer fair warning about something that happens as the flowers bloom. As a therapist that specializes in anxious children, I generally expect...

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and yours! No matter what you celebrate in this season of light, there are some handy tips and hints to help those with an FASD celebrate the season with ease and joy :)http://www.papillioncenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/ThinkTank_HolidayStrategies.pdf

I am still so disgusted by these studies out of the UK. They are mostly funded by alcohol distributors and they are ruining lives:
MOFAS - Misinformation persists about drinking alcohol during pregnancy
The Minnesota Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (MOFAS) is concerned that the most recent study from Britain which says the children of mothers who drank ‘moderately’(defined as 3-7 drinks per week) in pregnancy actually grew up to have better balance than those who abstained, gives women a mixed message. - See more at:
http://www.mofas.org/2013/07/misinformation-persists-about-drinking-alcohol-during-pregnancy/

Misinformation persists about drinking alcohol during pregnancy MOFAS is concerned about a British study that gives women a mixed message about drinking alcohol during pregnancy.

I keep saying that the field of FASD is where Autism was 25 years ago. We need to learn from this! Best practice for Brain based disabilities is best practice!! You MUST look at the individual NOT at the diagnosis and provide service to the WHOLE person. Only then, will we move forward.
Regina Leader-Post (Canada) - FASD 'still such a brand-new disability'
If you were to come into contact with someone who suffers from fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, or FASD, and if they were to tell you they'd been to the moon in the recent past, they wouldn't necessarily be lying.
http://www.leaderpost.com/health/FASD+still+such+brand+disability/8584440/story.html

FASD 'still such a brand-new disability' If you were to come into contact with someone who suffers from fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, or FASD, and if they were to tell you they'd been to the moon in the recent past, they wouldn't necessarily be lying.