FASD Wellbeing Workshop Dr Cassie Jackson & Andy Jackson

On 28 October 2017, the first NOFAS-UK FASD Wellbeing Workshop, 'Living in the Here and Now,' featured Dr Cassie Jackson, Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist, and Andy Jackson, member National FASD Advisory Committee. The workshop featured these presentations, followed by Q&A (not filmed) and scenarios for small group problem solving. A PDF of Cassie's presentation and graphics based on the outcome of the breakout sessions are available at www.nofas-uk.org.

Dr Cassie Jackson (nee Hunt) is a senior clinical psychologist working in Suffolk community paediatrics. During the last 8 years she has started up and leads on a paediatric neuropsychology assessment pathway. It is through this that she has gained her specialism in the neuropsychology of foetal alcohol spectrum disorder, and how this facilitates diagnosis and management. Cassie has written a workshop for parents, which has just begun to be delivered following new diagnoses. The 'Information Leaflet for Parents and Carers' is available at www.nofas-uk.org.

Andy Jackson (25) is an adult with FASD who is a member of the new National FASD Advisory Committee, which is advising NOFAS-UK's transitions to adulthood project. Andy is passionate about sports and volunteers coaching different teams, including increasingly for young people with disabilities. Andy went to Uganda to help coach football for underprivileged children and has previously served at a Young Ambassador for MENCAP.

(They are not related.)

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