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Community Resources and Family Support Groups
 
Casey Family Services - Post-Adoption counselling
105 Loudon Road, Building 2
Concord, NH 03301
Phone: 603-224-8909  Fax: 603-224-2584  Toll Free: 800-417-7375
Contact: Mary Auger, M.S.W.
www.caseyfamilyservices.org
Presents workshops on how to handle the adopted child with behavior problems.

Child Care Resource and Referral Office for west-central New Hampshire and east-central Vermont
17 1/w Lebanon St.
Suite 2
Hanover, NH 03755
Phone: 603-646-3233  Fax: 603-646-0197  
Information on FAS/FAE is included the their training for child care providers.

Deborah Ellis Nailor, R.N.
P O Box 273
Henniker, NH 03242
Phone: 603-225-4153x294  Fax: 603-3428-2442  
Contact: Deborah Ellis Nailor
den@nec1.nec.edu
Has adopted daughters with diagnosis of FAS/FAE and mental illness. Trains professional and other groups.

George Blasco and Claudia Boozer-Blasco, M.Ed., Parents
13 Brook Road
Litchfield, NH 03052
Phone: 603-429-0072  
Contact: George and Claudia Boozer-Blasco
claudia.boozer-blasco@unh.edu
Adoptive parents with numerous family support contacts in New Hampshire and in other parts of the U.S..

New Hampshire Department of Health - Children, Youth and Families Division
65 Beacon Street W
Laconia, NH 03246
Phone: 603-524-4485x340  


New Hampshire Family Voices
6 Hazen Drive
Concord, NH 03301
Phone: 603-271-4525  Fax: 603-271-4902  Toll Free: 800-852-3345 x4
Contact: Martha Jean Madison, Parent Consultant
nhfv@yahoo.com
Has some resources available to families dealing with FAS at home.

NOFAS New Hampshire
Harrisville, NH 03450
Phone: 603-924-8381  Fax: 603-924-8359  
Contact: Joyce Jorgenson,  Interim Director
joyce.jorgenson@wivalley.net


Parent Information Center
P O Box 2405
Concord, NH 03302
Phone: 603-224-7005  Fax: 603-224-4365  Toll Free: 800-232-0986
picinfo@parentinformationcenter.org
www.parentinformationcetner.org
Assistance and advocacy for families who have children placed in special education. Occasionally free parent trainings are offered around the state; otherwise parents pay for telephone consultations.

Diagnosis of FAS
 
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center - Department of Neurology
1 Medical Center Drive
Lebanon, NH 03756
Phone: 603-650-8588  Fax: 603-650-8268  
www.dhmc.org


Other
 
Disabilities Rights Center
P O Box 3660
18 Low Avenue
Concord, NH 03302
Phone: 603-228-0432  Fax: 603-225-2077  Toll Free: 800-834-1721
advocacy@drcnh.org
www.drcnh.org
Protection and advocacy agency for persons with developmental disabilities.

Prevention Programs, including Treatment for Women
 
Hannah House
P O Box 591
Lebanon, NH 03766
Phone: 603-448-5339  Fax: 603-448-5398  
hannah.house@valley.net
Inpatient help for teens from New Hampshire and Vermont who are pregnant mothers; some of these patients have substance abuse disorders.

Headrest, Inc.
14 Church Street
Lebanon, NH 03766
Phone: 603-448-4400  Fax: 603-448-1829  Toll Free: 1-800-SUICIDE
Contact: Karen Koskoff, Director
www.headrest.org
Provides outpatient substance-abuse treatment services, a few shelter beds, and other services for drug abuse and alcoholism.

Network New Hampshire Coalition - C/O The Children' s Place
27 Burns Ave.
PO Box 576
Concord, NH 03301
Phone: 603-224-9920  
A state-supported coalition of Community and Family Resource Programs. Family Resource Centers are open to the public in various parts of the state. Some centers have their own newsletters and lending libraries; some also offer home visits.

Treatment Services for Affected Individuals
 
Department of Health and Human Services - Bureau of Substance Abuse Services
105 Pleasant Street
Concord, NH 03301
Phone: 603-271-6105  Fax: 603-271-6116  
www.dhhs.state.nh.us/dadapr
Treatment resources for pregnant clients who are substance abusers.

New Hampshire Division of Developmental Services - New Hampshire Division of Developmental Services - Family Support Coordinator
The Concord Center
10 Ferry Street Unit
Concord, NH 03301
Phone: 603-271-5057  Toll Free: 800-852-3345 x5
Available for consultations by telephone.

Warren Fitzgerald, Ph.D., Psychologist
54 S State Street
Concord, NH 03301
Phone: 603-22-85863  
Contact: Warren Fitzgerald
Sees patients with FAS/FAE for follow-up, early intervention and family therapy. Dr. Fitzgerald occasionally works with youth who have been arrested for felonies.

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