Service Providers
Service Providers
About Your Tools
As a clinician, you are essential to supporting the mental health of individuals with FASD. The persistence, dedication, advocacy, and care you bring to this work are invaluable.
In your work, you already have important skills and experience that help you support the mental health of people with FASD. Just as a hammer is important to getting a nail secured in a board, and a map can help you find a destination, these tools were created to add to what you already know and do. They are designed to give you practical, research-based guidance that you can adjust to fit the unique needs of your clients and your work setting.
Learning From Service Providers
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Using the Tools
The tools are divided into two categories: learning more about FASD and boosting clinical competencies through reflection, and applied tools that can be used in your clinical practice with individuals with FASD and their caregivers.
The IMPACT tools are designed to support FASD-informed mental health care. Although each tool is created with one primary audience in mind (i.e., service providers, individuals with FASD, or caregivers), they are flexible and you may find other ways to use them as well.
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Some of the tools below have a User Guide document, which provides further background information in addition to the Tool version. The User Guides are intended to facilitate the use of the Tools. If a Tool includes both a User Guide and Tool version, we recommend looking at both to ensure you review all the relevant information to see how each Tool may be useful to you
Using the Tools
The tools are divided into two categories: learning more about FASD and boosting clinical competencies through reflection, and applied tools that can be used in your clinical practice with individuals with FASD and their caregivers.
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The IMPACT tools are designed to support FASD-informed mental health care. Although each tool is created with one primary audience in mind (i.e., service providers, individuals with FASD, or caregivers), they are flexible and you may find other ways to use them as well.
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Some of the tools below have a User Guide document, which provides further background information in addition to the Tool version. The User Guides are intended to facilitate the use of the Tools. If a Tool includes both a User Guide and Tool version, we recommend looking at both to ensure you review all the relevant information to see how each Tool may be useful to you.
Tools for Service Providers:
Learn and Reflect
The following tools offer opportunities to reflect on your current clinical practices, FASD knowledge, and attitudes towards supporting people with FASD in mental health settings. These tools are not intended to be used with clients, but rather provide opportunities to further your own understanding of FASD and your own beliefs that impact your practices.
Provides a compilation of general information regarding FASD, mental health, trauma, and mental health treatment for people with FASD. Additional resources and courses are linked. Practice vignettes are outlined to provide an opportunity to think through client examples.
Tools for Service Providers:
Learn and Reflect
The following tools offer opportunities to reflect on your current clinical practices, FASD knowledge, and attitudes towards supporting people with FASD in mental health settings. These tools are not intended to be used with clients, but rather provide opportunities to further your own understanding of FASD and your own beliefs that impact your practices.
Cycle of Perception
This tool provides information on how your views can impact your actions. You can use this tool to understand how you can challenge stigma about FASD through various strategies.
Belief Self-Reflection Table
This tool helps you reflect on your attitudes, beliefs, and practices when working with people with FASD to uncover potential biases and misconceptions. Reflecting on our beliefs helps everyone grow.
Evidence Based Practice & FASD Education
This tool provides a compilation of general information regarding FASD, mental health, trauma, and mental health treatment for people with FASD. Additional resources and courses are linked. Practice vignettes are outlined to provide an opportunity to think through client examples.
Tools for Service Providers:
In Your Practice
The following tools are intended to supplement your existing clinical practices by offering applied tools that can be flexibly used with clients and caregivers. You may find some more useful for your current practice than others. We hope to offer options that can be flexibly used to best support each of your clients’ unique needs.
Relational Clarity Agreement
This tool explains the roles, responsibilities, and boundaries of everyone involved in therapy (like the person with FASD, caregivers, and service providers). The fillable agreement can be used together with providers to have clear, meaningful conversations and keep a record of these roles throughout therapy.
FASD-Informed Consent Form Checklist
Below is a checklist that is designed to help you review your current consent forms and procedures and identify ways to make them more FASD-informed. The tool offers practical ideas and tips to help you discuss consent in a simpler, clearer, and more FASD-informed way.
Understanding & Supporting Brain-Based Differences
This tool helps explain behaviours by linking them to underlying neurodevelopmental differences. It can guide FASD-informed support and adaptations to care.
Therapy Outcome Monitoring and Feedback Forms
This tool helps you engage in collaborative goal setting with people with FASD and their families. There are templates to monitor treatment outcomes and gather feedback from both individuals with FASD and their caregivers. These tools encourage open conversations, help track progress, and strengthen the partnership between everyone involved.
Tools for Service Providers:
In Your Practice
The following tools are intended to supplement your existing clinical practices by offering applied tools that can be flexibly used with clients and caregivers. You may find some more useful for your current practice than others. We hope to offer options that can be flexibly used to best support each of your clients’ unique needs.
Helps you engage in collaborative goal setting with people with FASD and their families. There are templates to monitor treatment outcomes and gather feedback from both individuals with FASD and their caregivers. These tools encourage open conversations, help track progress, and strengthen the partnership between everyone involved.
Explains the roles, responsibilities, and boundaries of everyone involved in therapy (like the person with FASD, caregivers, and service providers). The fillable agreement can be used together with providers to have clear, meaningful conversations and keep a record of these roles throughout therapy.
Collaborative Tools
These tools can be used in collaboration with individuals with FASD and/or caregivers.
MY MENTAL HEALTH AND SUPPORT SUMMARY
Acts as a record of important information about the client. You can use it to document your work with the client, so other professionals can easily keep track of the client’s relevant history, strengths, needs, and past treatment information.
Service Provider Community Of Practice
The Service Provider Community of Practice (CoP) is a collaborative effort between IMPACT, CanFASD, and FASD United. Together, these organizations have established a shared online platform for service providers across North America who support individuals with FASD and their families, as well as those interested in learning more about working with individuals with FASD. No prior experience in this area is necessary.
The CoP meets once a month for one-hour-long sessions. Each meeting addresses a specific topic, providing both structured information and opportunities for facilitated discussion. Through the CoP, we aim to facilitate connections, share knowledge, and reflect on how to better support each other and those we serve. To register for an upcoming CoP, click the button below.