Life with FASD: Understand and Connect with Aroha

A FREE seven-week ONLINE course for parents, grandparents, whānau and caregivers.

Please note: this is the MORNING training – 10.30am-12pm.

* THIS TRAINING IS NOW SOLD OUT *

However, if you're keen to attend, please email Paige at [email protected] to go on our waitlist – our caregivers' plans often need to change so there's a good chance that spaces may become available.

If you are registered and for any reason you can't make it we fully understand, but please let us know immediately at [email protected] so that others can take your place.  

What's it about?

This caregiver training has seven modules. It will run from 10.30-12pm each Thursday online, starting 1 May 2025 and finishing 26 June 2025 (please note, there will be a two-week gap on 22 May and 29 May). It's especially developed to support those who are caring for someone who is impacted by FASD (or possible FASD).

This is an evidence-based training with the objective to grow knowledge, develop greater resilience, learn strategies and meet others who are also living with FASD in their whānau.

Objectives

By the end of the course participants will have:

1. Achieved an increased knowledge of FASD, and its impacts and challenges across the lifespan.

2. Been equipped in knowledge of successful approaches and strategies that can be used in life with FASD.

3. Become aware of helpful and successful strategies and approaches to apply to their own unique family environment, as well as, to the systems in their environment, such as health, welfare, education, and justice.

4. Fostered peer-support relationships with others who share the lived-experience of FASD.

Facilitation

RuruHana Brownie (Ngāpuhi nui tonu, Ngāti Pukenga ki Pakikaikutu) and Anna Gundesen bring their lived experience to these courses alongside being experienced facilitators with a deep knowledge-base of FASD and developmental trauma.

They are two of our most experienced Navigators and trainers. 

Feedback from attendees in Aotearoa

What was the most valuable part of the training for you?

• “The lived experience of facilitators was a huge benefit.”
  
  
• “Loved the Aotearoa direction.”
  
  
• "Filled my tank and personal sense of belonging through being with others who ‘get it’. This has strengthened my compassion and encouragement for the way forward."

You can click here to read an article about our caregiver training sessions, with input from both participants and facilitators. 

Registration

Fill in the fields above and click 'Sign up'. You'll then receive a email with more information and your Zoom link.  

Please note: There are limited spaces in this valuable training – if for any reason you decide you can't make it we fully understand, but please let us know immediately at [email protected] so that others can take your place.