Profile Information
Location
Sammamish, WA
Country
United States
Postal Code
98074
What is it you do for a living? (Parenting, volunteering, CEO of social service organization, etc.)
Volunteer
What organization(s) do you volunteer or work for?
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASDs) Communities. We are a voluntary NGO of parents, caregivers and experts in the Field of FASDs with the mission of creating residential communities for young adults on this spectrum where they can live safely and to their potential. Only 5% of individuals with FASDs are able to live independently. The majority become homeless, addicted or incarcerated.
What is your interest in PACEs and resilience science?
I am advocating for more education on FASDs across the board, but most specifically for individuals who intersect with this population such as doctors, therapists, social workers, teachers, and representatives from the criminal justice system. My interest in the ACE concepts stems from confusion over why having such a high prevalence rate, FASDs, caused by prenatal alcohol exposure and resulting in organic brain damage that certainly qualifies as trauma, and the leading cause of birth defects and intellectual/developmental disabilities are not listed among the ACE criteria?