'FASD Informed' Specialist Post-16 College

Preparing for the next steps and transitions is really what college life is all about, we provide a bespoke programme to consider young adults with complex presentations of Prenatal Alcohol Exposure, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Fluctuating Capacity and overlapping complex needs.

This course is designed for professionals working in your specialist settings:

Key workers, Teachers, Teaching Assistants, SENCO's, Therapists, Supported Internship co-ordinators, Work Placement, Off-Site Employer Experience, Administration & Reception, Dinner Staff, Care Staff, Pastoral, Volunteers, Technical Support, and Direct Student Support working in Post 16; we provide tailored training to differentiate the needs of the young adults you support.

Our 'FASD Informed' College Stage 4 programme offer's bitesize sessions tailored to your timetable, where we can adjust the time to suit your team in or out of School hours or on inset, where you can dip in and out at your own pace:

• FASD Informed™ College Stage 1: What is Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder?….. with no assumptions, all the team start on the same page.... at a gentle pace; we consider the damage of the brain and nervous system and how this impacts learning and development.

• FASD Informed™ College Stage 2: Interpreting theory into practice, processing speed, transitions, sexualised symptoms, hyper-fixation, fluctuating capacity, perseverance, confabulation, differentiating the curriculum, providing strategies to consider to support the spectrum; digging deeper into the practical considerations with case study reflection.

• FASD Informed™ College Stage 3: Supporting steps forwards, digging deep into 'switching' techniques, looking outside the box & meeting emerging needs, planning well ahead for transitions, Supported Internship programmes, job coaching.

  
  

• FASD Informed™ College Stage 4: FASD NICE Quality Standards, OFSTED good practice informing 'FASD Responsive' Practice; personalised care, fluctuating capacity, risk assessment, safeguarding, reflection and case management; forward planning.

'FASD-informed practice' acknowledges the need to see beyond an individual’s presenting behaviours, to consider symptoms and to ask.....

‘What does this young person need?’ 

rather than

‘What is wrong with this young person ?’

We dig deep to tune into the child/ren that you support where we tailor our programme around the child/ren's individual needs. We offer practical application of educational & therapeutic strategies to support the indoor and outdoor classroom including work experience and supported internship & living.

FASD continues to be a frequently misunderstood condition, those who are not appropriately trained or knowledgeable can often make inaccurate 'assumptions' due to the fact that many individuals with FASD can superficially present as more able than they actually are, due to their spiky cognitive and neurodevelopmental profiles.

With up to 428 co-occurring neurodevelopmental conditions common to FASD, spanning across 18 of 22 chapters of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) -10. The most prevalent disease conditions include congenital malformations, deformities, and chromosomal abnormalities, mental and 'behavioural' disorders..... we consider the 'symptoms' and look for a positives ways to interpret and scaffold needs.

All participants will receive 'FASD Informed' certification, resources and membership of our network of 'FASD Responsive' Independent Schools.

We tailor our online bespoke 'FASD-Informed' sessions around the needs of the families you support; every session is unique because we consider carefully the children that you support.

'It was a complete lightbulb moment for me. I attend thinking it ticks a box... this training absolutely is not that as it literally changes lives! I look at every child I support through a new lense.'

I loved everything about the sessions, it was great to bring the governance team together, where we were encouraged to share skills and experience. We really dug deep to considering who were likely to have been exposed to alcohol.... so many lightbulb moments where we all now look through the lense providing a personalised approach .... very powerful.

The experience of the speakers were so rich and valuable to my role where they provided such huge insight into the difference my job can make. So inspiring and energising, thank you.'

Headteacher / DSL Cornwall

'FASD Informed' (TM) Education delivered by a strong experienced qualified team, tailoring a bespoke service to support your team in becoming FASD Responsive(TM)

To book or to find out more email us: info@fasdinformed.co.uk

We also offer an online 1:1 consultation service and attendance of meetings for stuck or complex cases requiring out of the box thinking to consider the spectrum of needs and to look towards finding a way forwards.

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