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Our FASD Stories

At MOFAS families are the inspiration behind what we do each day. The stories of families living with FASD motivate us just as they motivate, teach and inspire other families, health care and education professionals, legislators, law enforcement and judicial workers, and other members of our communities.

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders are often called “the invisible disability”. If you would like to add your family to our visible network of families living with FASD, please consider posting your story here. You must be a registered MOFAS Virtual Family Center member to submit a story.

A few years ago, District 287 opened a program designed specifically for students with an FASD. MOFAS stepped in to train our staff and then support us through some very rocky times. These kids are much more complicated than most realize and MOFAS (specifically Sue Terwey) came in several times over several years to help us learn what it means to provided a free and appropriate public education for these kids. Through lots of hard work, we are seeing changes in these kids! They are becoming successful enough to return to their home schools, hold jobs within the community, and be resilient enough to accept some of what life has to offer. They still need that "external brain" to be successful but the outlook for them is much brighter than it was a few years ago.

Without the skills and support of the staff at MOFAS, these kids would not have this bright future.

~Brad
Teacher for District 287

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