FASDay - TODAY IS THE DAY!!!!!

Can't do anything ---- Sure you can!
Send this message on your mobile

TEXT TEN FOR FASD DAY
This message will save a baby's life!!!
Alcohol use during pregnancy can cause brain damage, birth defects, premature birth, and death.
WWW.BABYBORNFREE.

COM
Prevent Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders -
Pass this on to 10 people.

And if you can't do that "Each one can reach one" tell one other person about FASD.

#1 Day to FASDAY - Join the Ringtone Rally

FASD Day - Ringtone Rally!

From the Incredible Thinktank 

of Teresa Kellerman

Okay, everyone, here's my idea for FASD Day 2012:

We are going to ring people's mobile phones with a FASD Day text message. Send the message (my next email) to as many people as you want.

What, you don't text? Me neither. So I will be sending this message by email, and I will put it on my facebook page. Look for me, my facebook id is... fasstar (of course!) www.facebook.com/fasstar

The web link on the text message goes to www.babybornfree.com. This is newly designed especially for viewing on mobile devices. There are links there to an awareness video (from NOFAS), a slide show (from our friends in NY), the FASDay site, and my main info web site.

You can wait until FASD Awareness Day on Sept. 9th and do your texting that day, or you can go ahead and START RIGHT NOW. Because, as I always say, EVERY DAY is FASD Awareness Day! So go text everyone, email everyond, fb everyone, telephone everyone. Heck, you can even raise awareness the old-fashioned way and tell people face to face about what alcohol can do to the developing baby. You never know when the message will be shared with someone that will save a baby's life, or maybe an entire generation of babies!
Woohoo! Let's do it!
Teresa

TEXT TEN FOR FASD DAY
This message will save a baby's life!!!
Alcohol use during pregnancy can cause brain damage, birth defects, premature birth, and death.
WWW.BABYBORNFREE.COM
Prevent Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders -
Pass this on to 10 people.

#2 Days To FASDay - Last Minute Links

A special thank you to the international FASD awareness team...

Thank you for making a difference.

Begin celebrating this weekend as you build FASD Awareness.

VISIT www.fasday.com for some final ideas - Teresa Kellerman has been busy!

Thank you for following these 60 days of ideas. We hope we have offered support to make your International FASDay a success.


Jodee and Liz Kulp

Online Manual - www.fasday.com

Seminar - Or try our easy, effective, exciting 1½ hour program that walks you

 through the morning of Sept.9: http://www.come-over.to/FASDAY/ABCDEFG/ 

(material from 2002 has excellent ideas)

Click Here For Our Past 60 Links for a Great Fetal Alcohol Awareness Day!

Follow us through the next 60 days and plan your local or personal project to build awareness of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder - Each One Can Reach One!

Need family support visit www.toolboxparent.com

Need ideas for adults living with challenges of FASD visit www.braidedcord.net

Need information on fetal alcohol spectrum disorders visit www.betterendings.org

Interested in service dog for FASD visit www.thechancerchronicles.com

#3 Days To FASDay - Dog takes a stand on fetal alcohol

If a dog can do it so can we!

Each one of us can reach a new person this coming year. For those of us who live with the realities of FASD, it is our job to share this knowledge. 

Last year we asked...

Could we use the woof of a dog to build FASD awareness?

So Chancer, Iyal Winokur's service dog woofed in ...

• The New York Times (February 2012) Wonder Dog - A golden retriever reaches a raging boy by Melissa Fay Greene
• Readers Digest Canada (May 2012-Pages 84-91) Creature Comfort - A golden retriever did what the Winokur family could not—he befriended an soothed their raging son by Melissa Fay Greene
• Guidepost (September 2012)  A Dog's Devotion Brings Healing— She had no idea how severe her adopted son's problems would be—or what form the answer to her prayers would take. By Donnie Kanter Winokur, Roswell, Georgia
• Entro Magazine (June 2012-Pages 24-25) Building Bridges to Success for Children Living with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
• Adoption Today (October 2012) shhhh.... it's coming! 
• Another potential BIG SURPRISE - keep posted to Silent Voices Blog and be the first to know!

How can you take a stand...

• Miss Illinois talked about FASD when she represented Southern Illinois - she is an expert from the inside out
• Karl Kulp told his classmates at his 50th Class Reunion - "The most important thing I have done in my life, that I am the most proud - is raising my daughter who lives with the daily challenges of fetal alcohol into an interdependent adulthood." 

Stand up in your congregation this weekend! And share your story!

If we want to create an "REAL" Economic Stimulus Package - now is the time to begin promoting "Building Better Baby Brains" by Raising the Standard for the Future - Alcohol and Babies don't mix and add to the future cost of education, medical, community and judicial services.

• Church sermon sample http://www.betterendings.org/FASD/christian/sermon.htm Ask your faith leader for an opportunity to speak on Friday, Saturday or Sunday during services.

• Join our virtual Million Mind March to give One Million Babies in the next year the opportunity to develop healthy minds

Participate in a Local Radio Show and Get Your Events Talked About
Call your local radio show and see if you can get on a program to talk about FASD during the next 60 days. You may just open up some minds and save a few baby brain cells.
Visit:

• www.toolboxparent.com for current articles
• www.thechancerchronicles.com for updates on Chancer
• www.betterendings.org to learn more about our host

Step out, speak out, get out and make some friendly noise to build awareness of FASD - fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.

#4 Days To FASDay - FREE STUFF Be a poster poster

Become a Poster Poster!

©http://www.fasstar.com/

Get your school involved this month... involve your health teachers... high schoolers give a presentations to your elementary and middle schools -


Print out some FREE - FASD Awareness posters and hang them up on local bulletin boards, at the store, the laundromat, churches, universities, etc. You might even get your local schools to post them.

"Little One" everybody's favorite poster

NOFAS Posters and Brochures

If you print these out yourself on photo paper at "best" resolution on your color printer they will have a high quality appearance. You can have large posters printed for just a few dollars at your local print or copy shop. Even one may be seen by hundreds of people.

PURCHASE A SET OF BOOKS FOR YOUR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TO HELP EXPLAIN FETAL ALCOHOL SPECTRUM DISORDERS TO STUDENTS IN A KIND AND GENTLE WAY - Prevent Bully Behaviors against children with FASD this school years.

Click book to purchase and use $3.00 coupon code Direct links provided for discount - Just add coupon code JZLZLVT2 to order Nuzzle, My Invisible World, Braided Cord, Whitest Wall or Our FAScinating Journey - you can simply click special link for each book provided below. Any reviews or comments on our books are appreciated. Happy September 9 - for larger quantity please message me and I can get you a deal.

PLUS THIS IS FREE E-CURRICULUM FOR Elementary Schools From Chancer!!!!!

FREE Downloads

 Chancer Chronicles E-Book

 My Invisible World Scrapbook

 Speaker E-Kit - Donnie Winokur Kanter

 Nuzzle E-Curriculum

 Nuzzle Puzzles for children

Speaking, workshops or wholesale books contact: www.betterendings.org or jodeekulp@gmail.com

$3.00 Gift for each book from the Kulp and Winokur Families to build awareness this month. Additional or classroom quantities please contact us:

NEW! 3rd Revision Our FAScinating Journey -Keys to Brain Potential Along the Path of Prenatal Brain Injury - (2012)https://www.createspace.com/3579462

The Whitest Wall (2012) - A Mystery novel

https://www.createspace.com/3497641

Braided Cord (2010) - Liz's adult transition with FASD

https://www.createspace.com/3436934

#5 Days To FASDay - Fetal Alcohol Awareness Month

Write a PSA!
Or use one that already exists -

September is Fetal Alcohol Awareness Month - so share this wonderful PSA with friends - or take a look at some of the other great PSA's online - most of the people working with FASD Awareness willingly share -

This was created by a 2009 high school graduate in a tiny rural KY county - he's got real talent, and I'm so grateful to him for taking the time to do this. Please feel free to pass it on - I want Parker and his fabulous PSA to get a lot of views today!!



Happy FASD Awareness Day from Kentucky!
Laura Nagel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_USXRi8zt8

#6 Days to FASDay - I have a dream. . . .

I have a dream....

That one day little children will not be born with brain damage because of the alcohol they were fed before they were even borm.

I have a dream. . .

That one day persons with inivisible disabilities will not be treated second-class citizens, but will be able to participate in their local communities accepted in their differences

I have a dream. . .

That one day predators and persecutors will not addionally victimize persons with fetal alcohol. That people will realize it is no joke. That the day - to - day struggle is real and cannot be kissed away, or bandaged or ignored.

I have a dream . . .

That one day we will see all people as mattering.

As my young adult daughter says so profoundly, "You can't be handicapped if you are born like that. You just are."