Welcome to Be in the know New Jersey!

Welcome to Be in the kNOw New Jersey ! This website is part of a dream of the New Jersey Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders and Other Perinatal Addictions Task Force. Our vision is to make “Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders” (FASD) and “perinatal addictions” household words. Our goal is to educate all New Jersey residents about the possible dangers of exposing fetuses to alcohol, drugs and tobacco.

Our state is fortunate to have many agencies and individuals who are committed to preventing and ameliorating the effects of these exposures and who are active participants of the Task Force. Members include representatives from the Department of Human Services (Office for Prevention of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities and Division of Addiction Services), the Department of Health and Senior Services (Maternal and Child Health and Special Health Services for Children and Adults), the University of Dentistry and Medicine, the Regional Maternal and Child Health Consortia, the Regional FASD Diagnostic Centers, community agencies, and family members. There will be a separate post with the names and emails of the task force members.

This website is both an end and a beginning. It is an end of several years of planning and the implementation by the Task Force of a statewide public education campaign to alert prospective parents of the dangers of these toxic substances upon fetal development. In 2006, the FASD Task Force initiated the first component of its campaign, Be in the kNOw New Jersey. You may have seen our brochures in local stores in Atlantic City or gotten a fan with our message at a summer concert in Newark or studied our poster while riding a bus or heard our warning on the radio. We want these materials to be used by others and will make them available on this site.

The FASD Task Force deliberately decided to make this site interactive. We want to give you, our visitor, the chance to communicate with us and we hope that you will do so. Please let us know what you think of the site ~ how easy is it to navigate? What other information would be helpful to you? How did you hear about us?

And, please, come visit us again!

PS- If you simply key in your email address on the home page a notification will come to your email address each time a new entry is made. It will make it easier for you to visit us.

Women’s Health Conference-Handouts

Debbie Aidelman, MS, CPS
Cerebral Palsy of New Jersey
Director of Substance Abuse Prevention

Issues Linking Developmental Disabilities and Substance Abuse

Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) in Pregnant Women

Susan F Neshin, MD

Medical Director JSAS HealthCare, Inc

Asbury Park, NJ

Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) in Pregnant Women

Kelly Ward Phd, LCSW, LCADC

Monmouth University Social Work Department

Building Resiliency Using Rituals

Steven G. Liga, MSW, LSW, LCADC, CPS

CEO/Executive Director, NCADD

Glamour Queens in Size 2 Jeans

Carolyn A. Bradley, Phd, LCSW, LCADC

An Exploration of Women’s Experiences in A.A.

Anne Harrington, RN, CADC

Perinatial Addiction Risk Reduction Specialist

Gateway Northwest Maternal and Child Health Network

FASD->ACOA, Looking Back-Looking Forward, Connecting the Dots

Alyce Thomas, RD

Perinatal Nutrition Consultant

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center

Paterson, NJ

Substance Abuse and Nutrition: Imperfect Together

Jeanne Watson Driscoll, PhD, APRN, BC
Women’s Health: Addiction, Trauma & HOPE
Princeton, New Jersey

The Earthquake Assessment

Women and Corrections: A Model Program

Vanessa Alleyne, Phd

Women and Corrections: A Model Program

Cheryl A. Kennedy, M.D.
Assoc. Prof. & Vice Chair
Dept. Psychiatry
New Jersey Medical School-UMDNJ
Newark, New Jersey

Triple Trouble: Female, Addicted & What Else? Co-occurring Disorders in Women

Kathleen Tavenner Mitchell, MHS, LCADC
Vice President and International Spokesperson
National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (NOFAS)

Creating a Circle of Hope: Moving from Victim to Warrior Mom

Norma Finkelstein Ph.D.
Institute for Health and Recovery, Princeton, NJ

Developing Trauma-Informed Systems of Care for Women in Substance Abuse Treatment

Jeanne Watson Driscoll, PhD, APRN, BC
Female Mood Disorders

LK Robinson, MD,

State University of New York at Buffalo, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

Alcohol, Sonic Hedgehog,and Prosody

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