Leaders in FASD Prevention
- Brings together youth and youth living with FASD to learn about FASD prevention, develop leadership skills, become more inclusive to those living with FASD, and promote positive lifestyle choices
- Provides FASD prevention education to youth
- Supports youth in developing thier own youth-friendly FASD prevention presentation
- Educates peers - youth deliver FASD prevention presentations to other youth and community members.
Leaders in FASD Prevention Program Objectives:
- Provide youth with an understanding of the complex issues associated with alcohol use during pregnancy
- Create a sense of community belonging through meaningful activities for vulnerable youth and their families, including those with FASD
- Develop and deliver youth-led educational messages to promote FASD awareness, understanding, and prevention among youth and other community members
- Transfer the Leaders in FASD Prevention model to 4 BC regions
- Support partner regions to sustain the Leaders in FASD Prevention program.
Funded by the Victoria Foundation, this project stream brings together young people living with FASD together with other youth, project facilitators, community agencies, and volunteer mentors to form Youth Inclusion Teams in two Vancouver Island regions (Victoria and Port Hardy in Year 1), an Interior region (Kamloops in Year 2) and a Northern BC region (Year 3) over a three-year period.
Youth Inclusion team members receive the “Leaders in FASD Prevention” training (youth-friendly FASD prevention education). Participants are supported to use their new training and skills to develop and present FASD educational workshops to middle and alternate school students, youth groups, and other community members. These interactive FASD prevention workshops include youth-friendly written and media materials and resources, and feature youth-led, adult facilitator-supported presentations and activities.
Email 
info@cvfasd.org for more information, or call us at 250-748-0236.