93 - Advocating for Individuals and Families Living with FASD - A Conversation with David Deere

FASD Hope

FASD Hope is a podcast series about Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD), from the lens of parent advocates with over nineteen years of lived experience.

Episode 93 shines a light on David Deere, MSW, MTh. David Deere is the treasurer for his state's FASD United Affiliate Organization - Arkansas None for Nine. For fifteen years before his retirement, he worked on FASD Projects funded by the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. David currently serves as the co-director of the Specialty Diagnostic Resource Center, which is the first clinic and resource center in Arkansas devoted to children and adolescents suspected of having an FASD. He is a social worker, by training, and a retired member of the United Methodist clergy.

This episode highlights David's work with Arkansas None for Nine AND the "Advocating for Individuals and Families Living with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)" - An Online Training, which will be held on November 12, 2021.

This all-day training will provide an overview of diagnosis, ramifications, interventions and prevention of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD). Provided virtually, participants will have the opportunity to learn from leading experts in the field of FASD and Justice.

Presenters include:

- Dr. Ken Jones and Dr. Christina Chambers of University of California in San Diego- Dr. Kenneth Lyon Jones is considered the leading expert of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) and he was one of two doctors who first identified FAS in the US in 1973.

- Dr. Larry Burd of North Dakota Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Center

- Dr. Steven Greenspan - FASD Clinician, Researcher and Author

- Dr. Paul Connor - University of Washington

- Dianne Smith Howard - National Disability Rights Network

- Billy Edwards, Esquire - Deputy Public Defender, Los Angeles County Mental Health Unit

- Dr. Douglas Waite - Pediatrician, FASD Clinician and Diagnostician - NY, NY

This event will be held via zoom from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Central Time on Friday, November 12, 2021.

Tickets may be purchased through - https://nofasjusticecenter.org/ar-nov-2021/

"For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me." - Matthew 25: 35-36

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