The goal of this project is to learn about children and youth in Manitoba who were exposed to alcohol before birth. We hope to learn about the mental health of these children and youth, as well as how they think, behave, and feel. We also hope to learn more about their school skills, their memory skills, and how they are doing with day-to-day activities. We currently lack a consistent way of tracking assessment information for these children and youth. As such, we will look at information of children and youth who have been seen by the psychology team at the Manitoba FASD Centre. We will take this information and create a database. This database will help us to answer four main questions The first is what type of information is measured for each brain domain and how is this information measured? The second is what information is missing and would be helpful to have? The third is how we can better spread out resources to children and youth who will likely have FASD? The fourth is what are some differences between children and youth who do and don’t have FASD? This database can be used by multiple healthcare professionals and will help us to work together and improve the care of children and youth seen at the Manitoba FASD Centre.
