American Indian/Alaska Native/Native Hawaiian Initiative

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders

Contents of the American Indian/Alaska Native/

Native Hawaiian Resource Kit

This list details the contents of the American Indian/Alaska

Native/Native Hawaiian Resource Kit. It includes a general

description of each product and is organized by the type of product.

Overview

How To Use This Resource Kit

This overview provides a general layout to the resource kit, including its

goals, audience, use, development process, and content.

Fact Sheets

What You Need To Know: Effects of Alcohol on Women

This fact sheet provides facts and statistics on women and drinking,

including associated health risks, and the effects of drinking during

pregnancy and while nursing. It also provides resources for additional

information about alcohol and women.

What You Need To Know: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Among

Native Americans

This fact sheet helps answer questions about why fetal alcohol spectrum

disorders (FASD) are a serious concern in some Native American

communities. It provides an overview of the underlying causes of FASD

and its impact on Native American cultures. It also touches on some

strategies used by Native American groups to prevent FASD in their

areas. This piece would be good for Native American leaders and

community members interested in understanding why FASD is a

concern for Native American communities.

What You Need To Know: The Language of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum

Disorders

This fact sheet provides a great general overview of FASD. It provides

basic definitions of terms used to discuss FASD and its related effects,

and it includes a brief history, statistics on the prevalence and impact,

and a description of the cause and assessment of FASD. This fact sheet

is a good place for anyone to start reading about FASD.
Information Sheets

Community Health and Unity: Collaboration Strategies

This information sheet is aimed at groups within communities (e.g., tribal

and/or community leaders, school systems, health care providers) and

gives examples of collaboration strategies to help increase awareness

about and promote prevention of FASD and to provide services and

support for pregnant women who may not be able to stop drinking on

their own.

Healthy Babies, Strong Futures: How Men Can Help Pregnant

Women Be Alcohol Free

This information sheet provides simple strategies for Native men to use

to help support their female partners, relatives, and friends in having

alcohol-free pregnancies and preventing FASD.

Make Your Community Stronger: How You Can Promote Alcohol-Free

Pregnancy

This information sheet provides simple prevention strategies for

community members to use to promote greater awareness about and

understanding of FASD in their Native communities. This information

sheet should be used by those who appreciate the power of people

working together to make a change—for example, by sharing the

message that it is not okay to drink any alcohol during pregnancy.

Brochures

How To Help Yourself, Your Family Member, or Friend Be an AlcoholFree Mother-To-Be: Tips for Native Women

This brochure describes how Native women can help themselves and

other women have alcohol-free pregnancies. It discusses the risks of

drinking during pregnancy and includes suggestions for talking to

pregnant relatives or friends about FASD. It also lists things women can

do to support healthy pregnancies—for themselves and others.

How To Help Your Family Member or Friend Be an Alcohol-Free

Mother-To-Be: Tips for Native Men

This brochure describes how Native men can help female partners,

relatives, and friends have alcohol-free pregnancies. It discusses the risks

of drinking during pregnancy and includes suggestions for talking to

pregnant relatives or friends about FASD. It also lists things men can do

to support their friends’ and loved one’s healthy pregnancies.

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The Power of Our Youth: Help Your Community Have

Healthy Babies

This brochure is for Native adolescents. It explains what FASD is and

how preventing it can make a community stronger. It encourages

adolescents to learn more about FASD and to help others in their

community understand its cause and impact.

Posters

These posters can be hung in community centers, health clinics, schools,

work places, or any other places where people gather (and where

displaying posters is allowed).

Have a Healthy Baby. Be an Alcohol-Free Mother-To-Be.

This poster includes a depiction of pregnant Native women and contact

information for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services

Administration FASD Center for Excellence.

I’m Healthy...Thank You, Mother!

This poster includes the text “I’m Healthy...Thank You, Mother! By

staying alcohol free during pregnancy, my mom gave me a healthy

start.” It also includes blank space so that groups such as health care

providers and community organizations can customize it with text (e.g., a

group name or contact information) or a photo. Because it is intended to

be customized, this poster is provided on the CD only, not as a hard

copy. The poster is available on the enclosed CD in two formats—Word

and PDF.

Media (CD)

Resource Kit CD

The enclosed CD contains electronic versions of all the materials in the

American Indian/Alaska Native/Native Hawaiian Resource Kit, including

the various brochures, information and fact sheets, and posters. It can be

used to simplify the sharing of materials, like sending files to friends, or

to copy pieces for use in your own community.

American Indian/Alaska Native/Native Hawaiian Initiative

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders

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Also included on the CD is a copy of FASD––The Basics, an educational

slide show that provides the latest information on FASD. The information

is presented at a beginner’s level. You and members of your community

can use the FASD––The Basics presentation to inform and educate youth

in schools or in local groups. Feel free to use parts or all of FASD––The

Basics in trainings or in other educational materials. You can modify the

files to suit your purposes. Note that the CD contains FASD––The Basics

in three formats––HTML, PowerPoint, and PDF––all of which are

available on the www.fasdcenter.samhsa.gov Web site.

Resources

Resource List

This list provides brief summaries of the information, resources, and

services available through Native-specific Web sites. It also includes Web

site locations and phone numbers (when available) of national sources

for information, resources, and services related to the prevention and

treatment of FASD. It should be used by Native family members,

providers, and community members interested in learning more about

FASD or connecting with specific services.

Surgeon General’s Advisory on Alcohol Use in Pregnancy

This 2005 advisory by U.S. Surgeon General warns pregnant women and

women who may become pregnant to abstain from alcohol

consumption. He gives an overview of the latest science related to

drinking and pregnancy and draws conclusions related to the facts

(e.g., a pregnant woman should not drink alcohol during pregnancy).

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Printed 2007