FETAL ALCOHOL SPECTRUM DISORDERS florida resource guide

SECTION 6PreventionFlorida spendsan estimated$78,918,000annually to providespecial educationand juvenile justiceservices to children5-18 years effectedby FAS or ARBDND.This amounts to anestimated $914,183spent per day forthese services.www.onlineclinic.com/calculator.phpFlorida’s Fetal Alcohol Syndrome InitiativesDepartment of Health, continued▪ Substance abuse treatment programs and public health carefacilities are required to give priority for services to pregnant,abusing women.▪ Pregnant women using alcohol or other drugs are identified onFlorida’s Healthy Start Risk Screening Instrument, which isexpected to be offered to all pregnant women.▪ All pregnant women who are abusing alcohol or other drugs areeligible for Healthy Start care coordination services including homevisiting, education, and support for abstinency efforts.▪ All infants whose mother abused alcohol or other drugs duringpregnancy and their families are eligible for Healthy Start carecoordination services including home visiting, education on uniqueparenting needs of the child, support for abstinency efforts, andfamily planning education and support. Foster and adoptive familiesare eligible for these services also. For more information, contactyour local Healthy Start coalition. Contact information available at:www.healthystartflorida.com/contact.htm or www.babies.org/▪ Florida statute allows professional discretion in reporting toFlorida’s Abuse Hotline a child born prenatally exposed to alcohol.Florida’s Abuse Hotline number is 1-800-96-Abuse.▪ The Florida Birth Defects Registry includes Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.Call Jane Corriea at (850) 245-4444 ext. 2198.http://flbdr.hsc.usf.edu▪ Children with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome receive needed services asidentified. Services are available through Children’s Medical Services,early intervention programs, schools, and health care providers.▪ The Department of Health School Health Services program has313 Comprehensive School Health Services Project schools in 47counties that provide small group interventions and healtheducation classes on pregnancy prevention, HIV/STD prevention,and alcohol, tobacco and other drug abuse prevention. Pregnantstudents are referred to pre-natal care, Healthy Start, and schooldistrict Teenage Pregnancy Programs. Students that give birth areprovided with case management and support services that enablethe majority of them to return to school and graduate. For moreinformation about Comprehensive schools or other school healthservices, call (850) 245-4445 or log on to the School Health Serviceswebsite at: http://www9.myflorida.com/Family/school/index.html50 FETAL ALCOHOL SPECTRUM DISORDERS florida resource guide