As several of us are parents of children with FASD, we share and understand your daily tears, smiles, frustrations and joys!

One of our main aims as a charity is to continue to increase awareness of FASD thereby making your lives easier, as people begin to understand the condition and, hopefully, you will find yourself gradually having to explain less and less what FASD is!

We hope that you will find lots of helpful and useful information in these web pages, but please:

Remember, we are always willing to travel to your locality and give training / information sessions at your child's school, place of worship or even in your workplace; we can also signpost you to other organisations whom we work with to give you further information or assistance.

A major problem faced by many of you as parents and carers of FASD children is getting a early and authoritative diagnosis. The Trust is very well aware of this all-too-common problem and is working strenuously with leading medical researchers and practitioners to help medical professionals to understand and recognize the condition, in all its many and diverse forms. We held a very successful two-day forum for medical professionals in Witney in October 2011, and a follow-up event is planned for February 2012 (see UK Medical Professionals Forum  for latest details). Through these events and other developments such as an online FASD forum for medical professionals, we believe that, working together, we can improve the situation.

We are also working in partnership with a number of other organisations, with whom we have shared aims. By working together, sharing expertise and information, each organisation stands a better chance of realising its particular objectives. For more details of our partners, take a look at Partners.

We are pleased to announce that the latest addition to our lists of partners is Counselling Directory UK. The purpose of their directory  is to provide the UK with a huge counselling support network, enabling those in distress to find a counsellor close to them and appropriate for their needs. This is a free, confidential service that will hopefully encourage those in need of properly qualified counselling support  to seek help. The website also contains a number of sections on emotional disorders (types of distress section) and provides  useful statistics. 

To carry forward all the strands of our work, and in particular to provide effective and timely support to families affected by FASD, the income that we need comes entirely from fund-raising efforts and donations. Please take a look at the Donations and Fund-Raising page to see the ways in which you might be able to help.



Thank you.

The FASD Trust Team