Reading Time: 3 minutes U of A specialist identified gaps in care as patients age, developed app on his own time to ‘make a difference’
Tag: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Blame the parents for suffering of children on the margins
Reading Time: 3 minutes Developmentally delayed children come into a failing welfare system due to irresponsible parents placing substance abuse ahead of their children
Indigenous child welfare system remains dysfunctional
Reading Time: 3 minutes Decades after the ’60s Scoop, we’re no closer to a successful model to help children from troubled homes
Indigenous children continue to pay a steep price
Reading Time: 5 minutes No amount of funding plans or reorganization can solve this problem as long as alcohol and drug abuse persists in First Nations communities
The silence over Indigenous woes is deafening
Reading Time: 5 minutes You can’t solve problems that can’t be discussed, yet we refuse to have frank and open discussions about a very real crisis
Ripples from ’60s Indigenous children Scoop continue
Reading Time: 3 minutes If governments hadn’t protected Indigenous children, they would have faced lawsuits for failure to honour their commitments to those children
Alcohol use in pregnancy part of a complex set of issues
Reading Time: 4 minutes Expecting quick fixes for reducing alcohol use in pregnancy is unrealistic