State Resources for New Hampshire

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: 603-225-4153×294 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.

New Hampshire Department of Health – Children, Youth and Families Division
65 Beacon Street W
Laconia, NH 03246
Phone: 603-524-4485×340

New Hampshire Family Voices
129 Pleasant Drive
Concord, NH 03301
Phone: 603-271-4525 Toll Free: 800-852-3345 x4525
Contact: Martha Jean Madison and Terry Ohlson, Co-Directors
nhfv@yahoo.com
www.nhfv.org
This parent-run center provides free technical assistance and emotional support to families of children and youth with special health care needs and the professionals who serve them by assisting with information about the maze of public and private services for their children and youth having special challenges and offering a listening ear and guidance to possible solutions. The Family Voices Lending Library has resource on FAS and strives to enhance understanding,encourage friendships, teach tolerance, and dispel myths and stereotypes.

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 FASD

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.

Statewide Services

March of Dimes
10 Ferry Street
Suite 419
Concord, NH 03301
Phone: (603) 228-0317 Fax: (603) 228-0318
NH634@marchofdimes.com
www.marchofdimes.com/newhampshire/
March of Dimes is dedicated to improving the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth and infant mortality. They carry out their mission through research, services, education and advocacy.