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Proclamation
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, Warden Allen Webber do hereby proclaim the month of September, 2023 to be
FASD Awareness Month in the Municipality of the District of Chester.
Signed at Chester, Nova Scotia on this 14th day of September, 2023.
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Warden All Webber
30 Bartle Place • Grand Falls -Windsor • NL • A2A 2J7
contact fasdnl. ca 709-704-4244
www. fasdnl. ca
@fasdNL fcM NL