Our MOFAS Mission

Lately I feel like I can’t keep up with the pace of what is happening at MOFAS.  There is a sense of urgency around here that you can sense. The time is now.  We know every woman we educate now about “049” means one more baby has a chance to be born without the challenges [...]

We are very happy to announce that the newest online training entitled Early Identification & Intervention in the Primary Care Setting is now available at the University of Minnesota, Continuing Education Homepage:  http://www.med.umn.edu/cme/online/home.html.   This training, with up to 2.0 free Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits is available for Family Practice physicians, pediatricians, nurse practitioners and [...]

Leah Fernandez comes to MOFAS with a strong background in working with women in need of recovery support during pregnancy.  She is a Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor (LADC), so is well equipped to help us continue to move forward with developing support for women who used alcohol during pregnancy.  She enjoys training and facilitating [...]

Several years ago, we tried to figure out a way to provide greater support to caregivers raising kids with FASD.  We were a “statewide” agency, but had limited impact on families outside of the metro area.  We came up with a couple of avenues to change that. We decided to create a Virtual Family Center [...]

  We had a great opportunity this month to ‘count our assets’ at MOFAS.  Some are obvious, and some are a little harder to quantify but are just as meaningful. Let’s tally some of them up. Golf tournament: $20,000 raised, 100 golfers, 22 sponsors, and countless auction and raffle prizes. One fabulous day. State Fair: [...]

Surveys, phone calls and conversations have indicated to us that courses scheduled over several weeks that would feature guest speakers or experts in the field would be welcomed across the state. We listened. We also heard having in-person speakers who could share personal experiences and current research and strategies was most desirable. Our three part [...]

Monday night was so much fun. A whole bunch of families gathered for an “end of the summer” MOFAS family picnic in Plymouth. It was a typical back to school/end of the summer “get together” complete with lemonade, wonderful food, lots of talking and laughing, and a few mosquito bites. Hats off to Jeff and [...]

With the news being dominated by the current financial challenges of our economy, something I think is headline news that isn’t making it to the front page is the recent release by the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) that there is a new definition of addiction. After four years of study by over 80 [...]