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Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Awareness Month
September 2023
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.
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 month 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’; and
THEREFORE: I, Job Title, Name, do hereby proclaim the month of September, 2023 to be FASD Awareness Month, as cause/issue/special occasion etc. in the Name of City/Town.
Signed at City/Town Hall, City/Town, Province on this DAY of MONTH, 2023.
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Job Title, Name