The Department of Health and Social Services has developed two public awareness videos on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) to bring attention to the importance of diagnosis, and how the public can help support individuals living with FASD.

September is recognized nationally as FASD Awareness Month. FASD is a term used to describe the impacts on the brain and body of an individual who was exposed to alcohol before birth. FASD is a lifelong, brain-based disability. It presents differently in each person, due to the wide variation of alcohol effects on brain development.

The videos can be viewed on the Department of Health and Social Services website at: https://www.hss.gov.nt.ca/en/services/ensemble-troubles-causes-alcoolisation-f%C5%93tale.

Media Requests, please contact:

Jeremy Gibson Bird
Manager, Communications
Department of Health and Social Services Government of the Northwest Territories
867-767-9052 ext. 49034