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Parents, Let's Unite for Kids presents:
A half day seminar designed for parents, educators and professionals that are
dealing with the issues of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
Title: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Date: May 17, 2005, 9:00 AM - noon
Where: Great Falls, VisionNet classroom, 1309 NW Bypass
Video conference sites: Lame Deer Indian Health Service; Billings
- Mansfield Center - Burns East, Helena - Shodair Hospital
Click here to register
This session will also be streamed "live" to the internet.
To view live stream of this session you will need RealPlayer. Download at http://www.real.com.
Link to live session at 9:00 AM, May
17: http://real.montanavision.net/ramgen/encoder/pluk/live.rm
To test your connection: http://209.193.111.140/ramgen/PLUKinfo.rm
- Jill Plumage, Fort Belknap Reservation FAS Coordinator
Click here for
Jill's materials
- John Johnson, MD, Director, Medical Genetics, Shodair Hospital
Click here for
Dr. Johnson's materials
Click here for
HHS flyer on FAS
Click here for
materials available from PLUK
Presenters:
- Jill Plumage, Fort Belknap Reservation FAS Coordinator
(other speakers to be announced)
Jill counsels women about the dangers of drinking while pregnant, using her own
life story as an example. She works with a grant from the University of New
Mexico to study the problem of FAS on the Fort Belknap reservation.
- John Johnson, MD, Director, Medical Genetics, Shodair Hospital
John P. Johnson, MD, is the director of the Montana Medical Genetics Program
at Shodair Hospital in Helena. In addition to his work at Shodair, Dr. Johnson
serves on the Montana State Family and Community Health Services Advisory
Councils, the Governor's Advisory Committee on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and
Effects in Montana, and as a consultant for the Montana Universal Newborn
Hearing Screening Task Force.
Session Description:
Fetal alcohol syndrome may affect three dozen babies in Montana each year at a
lifetime cost estimated at $1.4 million each. "Alcohol continues to be a
bigger threat to larger numbers of children than any illicit drug known to man,
including cocaine," said Ann Streissguth, of the University of Washington's
fetal alcohol unit. Treating and caring for the victims of fetal alcohol
syndrome is estimated to cost more than $2.5 billion each year nationally.
Read an article from the Great Falls Tribune: http://www.gannett.com/go/difference/greatfalls/pages/part3/babies.html
Teleconference information:
This session is available through the VisionNet and Tele-Med systems
throughout the state. If you are interested in opening a site in your area for
this conference, please contact Roger Holt at the PLUK office: 800-222-7585 or rholt@pluk.org.
There may be an additional charge depending on the number of participants and
charges for opening a site. Arrangements must be made by May 10.
This session will also be streamed to the internet the morning of the session.
Scheduled videoconference sites:
Lame Deer - Indian Health Service
Billings - Mansfield Center - Burns East
Helena - Shodair Hospital
Access:
Please advise us at least two weeks prior to the sessions if you require any
special accommodations during the sessions or the materials in an alternate
format.
Scholarships/credit:
We are happy to pursue accreditation for any of our participant needs. At the
time of the printing of this brochure, the following credit is available:
PLUK is offering a limited number of parent scholarships to cover the registration fee. Indicate in the comments on the registration form that you would like to be considered for a scholarship and state your reasons for needing one.