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State Resources for Michigan


Community Resources and Family Support Groups
 
Cathy Meyers, Birth Mother Support
Grand Rapids, MI
Phone: 616-538-6765  
Contact: Cathy Meyers


Diagnosis of FAS
 
Children's Hospital of Michigan, Department of Genetics
3901 Beaubien
Detroit, MI 48201
Phone: 313-993-3891  
Contact: Ellen Podeszwa, Coordinator
epodeszwa@dmc.org


Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences Wayne State University
71 West Warren
Detroit, MI 48207
Phone: 313-875-8550   
Contact: Sandra Jacobson, Ph.D.
sjacobs@med.wayne.edu


Marquette General Hospital: Women and Children's Specialty Clinic
580 West College Avenue
Marquette, MI 49855
Phone: 906-225-4777  
Contact: Sue Britton, Coordinator
sbritton@mgh.org


Northern Michigan Children's Assessment Center
1000 Hastings
Traverse City, MI 49686
Phone: 231-947-8110  
Contact: Marybeth Novak,  Coordinator
marybeth_novak@yahoo.com


Seminole Medical Center Department of Pediatrics
461 W. Huron Street
Pontiac, MI 48341
Phone: 248-857-7245  
Contact: Colleen Noble, MD


Southwest Michigan Children's Trauma Assessment Center - WMU
1000 Oakland Drive
Kalamazoo, MI 49008
Phone: 269-387-7073  
Contact: Connie Black-Pond, Coordinator
ctac@wmich.edu


Spectrum Health Genetics Services
21 Michigan Street
Suite 465
Grand Rapids, MI 49503
Phone: 616-391-2319  
Contact: Barbara Wybrecht, Coordinator
Barbara.Wybrecht@spectrum-health.org


University of Michigan Medical Center - Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrician
1924 Taubmann Center
1500 East Medical Center Dr.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0318
Phone: 734-936-9777  
Contact: Marie Heys, Coordinator
mlheys@umich.edu


Treatment Services for Affected Individuals
 
Eagle Village
4507 170th Avenue
Hersey, MI 49639
Phone: 231-832-7310, 2  
http://www.eaglevillage.org/
Eagle Village provides treatment programs that utilize both traditional and non-traditional methods. The approach is child centered and family focused and incorporates cognitive, behavioral, family systems, and adventure-based theories and techniques.

Statewide Services
 
ARC Michigan
MI
Phone: 1-800-292-7851  
http://www.arcmi.org/
The ARC Michigan mission is to assure that citizens with developmental disabilities are valued and that they and their families can participate fully in and contribute to the life of their community. Local ARC groups provide a variety of services including providing advocacy in the schools and in the work place. Call for the number of the group closest to you.

Citizens Alliance to Uphold Special Education (CAUSE)
MI
Toll Free: 1-800-221-9105
info@causeonline.org
http://www.causeonline.org/
CAUSE is a statewide non-profit coalition providing free information, referral, support, advocacy, and workshops to parents and professionals working with children with disabilities and special needs.

Michigan Protection and Advocacy Service
MI
Toll Free: 1-800-288-5923
www.mpas.org
Michigan Protection and Advocacy Service, Inc. (MPAS) is a statewide agency for persons with developmental disabilities. The organizations goal is to advance the dignity, equality, self-determination, and expressed choices of individuals. MPAS promotes, expands and protects the human and legal rights of people by providing them with information and advocacy.

Michigan Resource Center
MI
Phone: 517-882-9955   Toll Free: 1-800-626-4636
info@michiganresourcecenter.org
The Michigan Resource Center provides information to the citizens of Michigan to promote traffic safety, alcohol, tobacco, and other drug prevention and treatment, and health awareness. Services include distribution of printed materials, a free loan video library containing over 200 titles, a free loan resource library including research journals for professionals, electronic information searches, and technical assistance to community groups and coalitions.

Michigan State FASD Coordinator
Michigan Department of Community Health
3423 N. Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard, P.O. Box 30195
Lansing, MI 48909
Phone: 517-335-9483  
Contact: Cheryl Lauber, D.P.A., M.S.N.,  State FAS Coordinator
lauberc@michigan.gov


National Resource Center for Special Needs Adoption
Southfield, MI 48075
Phone: 248-443-7080  Fax: 248-443-7099  
Contact: Drenda Lakin, M.S.W., Director
www.spaulding.org
Training and resource center (funded by the U.S. Government at the Spaulding for Children agency) on special-needs adoptions. It provides training and adoption support to families and professionals and publishes a newsletter, The Roundtable.

Project Parent Experience and Resources: Family Outreach and Referral Model
MI
Toll Free: 1-800-552-4821
www.wash.k12.mi.us/perform
Project PERFORM provides information, a lending library, and one-on-one support to parents of children with special needs and professionals. Extensive information on FAS is available on loan and through the website.

Local Community FAS Projects
 
Berrien County Health Department
769 Pipstone
P.O. Box 706
Benton Harbor, MI 49023
Phone: 269-927-5690  
Contact: Lisa Peeples-Hurst
lpeepleshurst@berriencohlthdept.org
http://www.berriencohlthdept.org/index.html


CARE (Community Assessment Referral Education)
31900 Utica Rd
Fraser, MI 48026
Phone: 586-541-0033 x222  Fax: 586-541-0034   
Contact: Shelly Bania,  FASD Prevention Specialist
sbania@careofmacomb.com
Macomb County

Community Action Agency
1214 Greenwood Ave
Jackson, MI 49203
Phone: 517-784-4800x235  Fax: 517-787-5157  
Contact: Shelley Hawver
shawver@caajlh.org
Jackson County

Detroit Dept. Of Health and Wellness Promotion
1151 Taylor Street
Detroit, MI 48202
Phone: 313-876-4733  Fax: 313-876-4645  
Contact: Sandra King
kingsa@health.ci.detroit.mi.us


Human Services Coordinating Board
103 West U.S. 2
Wakefield, MI 49968
Phone: 906-229-6104  
Contact: Betsy Wesselhoff
wesselb@gccmh.org


Kent County Health Department
700 Fuller NE
Grand Rapids, MI 49503
Phone: 616-632-7121  
Contact: Krisitina Paliwoda
kristina.paliwoda@kentcounty.org
http://www.accesskent.com/Health/


Lenawee Community Mental Health Authority
1040 S Winter St.
Suite 1022
Adrian, MI 49221
Phone: 517-264-0135  
Contact: Jackie Johnson, Coordinator
jjohnson@lcmha.org
Lenawee County

Marquette General Health System
420 West Magnetic Street
Marquette, MI 49885
Phone: 906-225-4777  
Contact: Sue Britton
sbritton@mgh.org
http://www.mgh.org/


MCFARES (Macomb County Community Resource Education & Support) Coalition (NOFAS Michigan)
Clinton Township, MI
Contact: Charisse-Kossu Kowalski
charisse@mcfares.org


Michigan Department of Community Health
PO Box 30195
Lansing, MI 48909
Phone: 517-335-9483   Fax: 517-335-8822  
Contact: Cheryl Lauber, Program Manager
lauberc@michigan.gov


Monroe County Intermediate School District
1101 S. Raisinville Rd.
Monroe, MI 48161
Phone: 734-242-5799x1912  
Contact: Douglas Redding
redding@misd.k12.mi.us
Monroe County

Northeast Michigan Community Partnership, Inc.
3022 US-23S, Suite C
Alpena, MI 49707
Phone: 989-356-2880   Fax: 989-354-6939  
Contact: Mary Schalk, Coordinator
maryshalk@hughes.net
Alcona, Alpena, Montmorency & Presque Isle Counties

Public Health Delta-Menominee
2920 College Avenue
Escanaba, MI 49829
Phone: 906-786-9639  
Contact: Mary Claire Massi-Lee
mmassilee@phdm.net
Delta, Menominee Counties

The Guidance Center
15601 Northline Road
Southgate, MI 48195
Phone: 734-785-7705 x7725  
Contact: Roxanne Brinkerhoff
rbrinkerhoff@guidance-center.org
Wayne County

Family Support Groups
 
Betsy Soden
Ann Arbor, MI
Phone: 734-662-2906  
betsysoden@juno.com


Charisse Cossu-Kowalski
MI
Phone: 586-771-1586  
cydck@yahoo.com
Macomb County

Craig and Carol Mungons
Davisburg, MI
Phone: 248-625-9642  


Georgia Powers
MI
Phone: 517-265-2459  
Lenawee County

JoCindee Sawaquat
Traverse City, MI
Phone: 231-883-1088  
jcsurya@aol.com


LacVieux Desert Reservation
Watersmeet, MI
Phone: 906-544-2247  
Contact: Terry Fox
foxy@nnex.net


Mary Lou Rasmussen
MI
Phone: 269-423-8798   
Cass County

Online Sharing Groups for Families
MI
FaSAFASD-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Email the email address provided to subscribe.

Online Sharing Groups for Professionals
MI
MIFASD-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Email the email address provided to subscribe.

Pam OBriant
Flint, MI
Phone: 810-736-8099  


Shelly Bania
MI
Phone: 586-541-0033x222  
Macomb County

Sheri Notten
MI
Phone: 269-423-8931  
Cass County

FAS Trainer/Consultants
 
Barbara Soffredine, EdD., Director
MI
Phone: 231-238-9394x223  Fax: 231-238-8551  
soffredb@pace.k12.mi.us
Cheboygan, Crawford, Ogemaw, Oscoda, Otsego, Roscommon Cheboygan-Otsego-Presque Isle Educational Service District. Barbara provides workshops for K - 12 educators as well as nurses and staff from health and human service agencies. Workshops range from 2-hours to all day presentations.

Barbara Wybrecht RN, BSN, PHN - Fetal Alcohol Clinical Nurse Specialist
Grand Rapids, MI
Phone: 616-241-9127  
robw995@aol.com
Barbara has presented well over 1000 workshops and seminars on various aspects of prenatal alcohol exposure. Most workshops are day long, are multidisciplinary and geared to those new to the world of FASD. Others are specifically for teachers, nurses, law enforcement professionals, mental health professionals, child welfare workers and parents themselves. Specialized workshops include those on FASD and Sexuality, FASD and the Law, and FASD across the Lifespan - Strategies and Interventions

Carol Cole, Infant Mental Health/Early Childhood Specialist
Ypsilanti, MI
Phone: 734-484-4723  
fasaware@comcast.net
A foster/adoptive parent of child with FASD, Carol provides training for educators, foster/adoption staff and parents. She is able to facilitate parent support groups for a variety of special needs and foster/adoption issues and discuss EEG neurofeedback information and support.

Karen Twa
Rapid River, MI
Phone: 906-225-7706  
kltwa@mfire.com


Nancy Thompson
MI
Phone: 764-242-5799x1616  
thompson@misd.k12.mi.us
Monroe County

Sarah Horton Bobo
Grand Rapids, MI
Phone: 616-868-5232  
Sarah is a consultant for the Michigan Department of Community Health's FASD Program. She is available to provide presentations to groups with a statewide audience. Presentations address: identifying characteristics of individuals with FASD and exploring strategies to support those affected by prenatal exposure to alcohol. half to full day trainings can be provided..

Substance Abuse Treatment Services
 
Michigan Treatment Information Line
MI
Toll Free: 1-888-736-0253


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