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PROCLAMATION
FETAL ALCOHOL SPECTRUM DISORDER
(FASD) AWARENESS WEEK
SEPTEMBER 2022
WHEREAS, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) is
a diagnostic term used to describe impacts on the brain and body
of individuals prenatally exposed to alcohol. FASD is a lifelong
disability. Individuals with FASD will experience some degree of
challenges in their daily living, and need support with motor
skills, physical health, learning, memory, attention,
communication, emotional regulation, and social skills to reach
their full potential. Each individual with FASD is unique and has
areas of both strengths and challenges; and
WHEREAS, fasdNL is a pan-provincial organization that educates,
provides supports and resources, and raises awareness about
fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) in Newfoundland and
Labrador and Atlantic Canada; and
WHEREAS, fasdNL is leading a three-year FASD prevention,
awareness, training, and collaborative action project in the four
Atlantic provinces; and
WHEREAS, FASD Awareness week is devoted to raising
awareness of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) to improve
prevention of FASD and diagnosis and support for individuals with
FASD and broad public awareness helps to put FASD the ‘map’.
THEREFORE, BE IT PROCLAIMED that September 2022 be
declared as FASD Awareness Month in the Municipality of the
District of Chester.
Signed at 151 King Street, Chester, Nova Scotia, on this 8th day
of September, 2022.
September 8, 2022
Allen Webber, Warden Date