FASD Challenge 2025
FASD Network UK has created a social change campaign for 2025 for parents, practitioners, commissioners, FASD allies and adults with FASD.
The mission of FASD Challenge 2025 is to challenge all forms of systems discrimination and absence of acknowledgement of FASD in advertising, documentation, procedures, services, commissioning, and legislation, to address the decades of silence surrounding FASD.
Your mission should you choose to accept it, is to make a challenge whenever you see FASD is absent.
For example from an image or a list of neurodiverse conditions, or when eligibility criteria bars FASD. Or perhaps when someone produces a document, procedure, policy or even legislation and even if a relevant training session doesn't include FASD.
As part of #FASDChallenge2025 you would reach out to them and politely enquire why FASD has not been considered or included. You could highlight what was missing or needs tweaking. Please do it courteously, and supportively, to create positive change and positive relationships.
If each of us, whether we are an FASD family or a practitioner, challenged ourselves to do at least 25 challenges during the year, or at least every time that we noticed something important that needed challenging, then FASD will have moved forward leap years. Keep a log of what you challenged and what changed, or what new relationship you built with someone to create change, and at the end of the year, we will have real examples to celebrate.
The motto of the FASD Challenge 2025, is one small leap per person, and one giant leap for the FASD Community.
Drop us an email or post on social media what you are achieving and let's make 2025 our best FASD year yet. If you are posting on social media, use the hashtags #FASDChallenge2025 #FASDOneGiantLeap
FASD Network UK has created a social change campaign for 2025 for parents, practitioners, commissioners, FASD allies and adults with FASD.
The mission of FASD Challenge 2025 is to challenge all forms of systems discrimination and absence of acknowledgement of FASD in advertising, documentation, procedures, services, commissioning, and legislation, to address the decades of silence surrounding FASD.
Your mission should you choose to accept it, is to make a challenge whenever you see FASD is absent.
For example from an image or a list of neurodiverse conditions, or when eligibility criteria bars FASD. Or perhaps when someone produces a document, procedure, policy or even legislation and even if a relevant training session doesn't include FASD.
As part of #FASDChallenge2025 you would reach out to them and politely enquire why FASD has not been considered or included. You could highlight what was missing or needs tweaking. Please do it courteously, and supportively, to create positive change and positive relationships.
If each of us, whether we are an FASD family or a practitioner, challenged ourselves to do at least 25 challenges during the year, or at least every time that we noticed something important that needed challenging, then FASD will have moved forward leap years. Keep a log of what you challenged and what changed, or what new relationship you built with someone to create change, and at the end of the year, we will have real examples to celebrate.
The motto of the FASD Challenge 2025, is one small leap per person, and one giant leap for the FASD Community.
Drop us an email or post on social media what you are achieving and let's make 2025 our best FASD year yet. If you are posting on social media, use the hashtags #FASDChallenge2025 #FASDOneGiantLeap
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Media Enquiries
We have experience of media interviews on radio, television, as well as through written articles and documentaries. We are keen to raise awareness of FASD in the public arena and have access to many families and practitioners who are eager to share their stories and insights.
FASD Week
Real Lives, Real Stories
We have collated a series of stories from families about FASD that we have put online for FASD week to give you an insight into everyday life.
Catherine's Story - Fostering
Sue's Story - Kinship
Charlotte's Story - Birth Mother
Martyn's Story - Adoption
We have collated a series of stories from families about FASD that we have put online for FASD week to give you an insight into everyday life.
Catherine's Story - Fostering
Sue's Story - Kinship
Charlotte's Story - Birth Mother
Martyn's Story - Adoption
News Articles
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16/3/22 NICE Guidance
The first NICE Quality Standards have been produced in the UK. LINK |
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30/9/21 DHSC Health Needs Assessment
The first DHSC Health Needs Assessment was published to provide an overview of FASD in the UK. LINK |
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30/11/18 BBC - Two of our wonderful FASD UK Alliance young advocates who have FASD themselves, raising awareness of the condition. LINK
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30/11/18 - Prevalence Study UK
The UK's first prevalence results are available. LINK |
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Latest UK Advice on Alcohol in Pregnancy 2017 LINK
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Take A Break - One of our dads talking about raising his child with FASD
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FASD Day 2016 - One of our adoptive mums shares her story for FASD Day? LINK
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TV Documentary - Exposure: When Pregnant Women Drink ITV, 9pm, 3/2/15 This is a documentary about FASD from our families and professional perspectives. LINK
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Family Life - Read about daily life for one of our lovely families affected by FASD in the UK.
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A UK Channel 4 documentary highlighting FASD. LINK
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FASD Prevention in the UK - First International Prevention Conference in Alberta 2013 of FASD activity in the UK. It also mentions our work in FASD Network UK. LINK
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