The Canada FASD Research Network (CanFASD), formerly known as the Canada Northwest FASD Research Network, was established in March of 2005, through the support of the Canada Northwest FASD Partnership (CNFASDP). CanFASD is a formally and informally connected group of professionals from a range of research sciences, and located across Canada.
They support Canada's leadership in addressing the extraordinary complexities of FASD. Their mission is to produce and maintain national, collaborative research designed for sharing with all Canadians, leading to prevention strategies and improved support services for people affected by Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder.
This site captures material from historical and ongoing projects related to women’s substance use in Canada. The projects described here have been sponsored by the British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health with the involvement of many partners. The site was first mounted to share the findings of the Coalescing on Women and Substance Use: Linking Research Practice and Policy project (2003-2008) a project that sparked short-term virtualcommunities of practice (vCoP) on six key topics related to women's substance use in Canada. New material continues to be added from both virtual and F2F projects, for example on projects related to girls and heavy alcohol use, and on applying a gender lens to work on the National Framework for Action to Reduce the Harms Associated with Alcohol and Other Drugs and Substances in Canada.
The aim of this site to share and promote action on promising approaches to responding to substance use by girls and women, on the part of service providers, researchers, health system planners and decision makers.
Provides counselling to lesbian, gay and bisexual people who are concerned about their use of drugs and alcohol. Our services are available to individuals with a variety of goals and are specialized to take into account the unique needs and issues that gay, lesbian and bisexual people face. Staff is made up of gay, lesbian, bisexual and straight professionals who are trained and experiences in counselling people with concerns about their use of alcohol and other drugs.
The SAFE program is a registered non-profit organization that started in London, ON. It was developed to meet the needs of self-abusive men and women whose prior experiences with the mental health system left them increasingly dysfunctional and resistant.
