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The Alberta FASD Family Advisory Council is working on a book featuring a collection of personal experiences of families (biological/foster/adoptive parents) and individuals with FASD.  We will select 15 to 20 powerful stories and develop a “family friendly” resource that will give people a positive, hopeful message and useful information.  We have some stories now […]

EDMONTON, Feb. 11, 2014 /CNW/ – Alberta Association for Community Living (AACL) welcomes the announcement from Federal Finance Minister, Jim Flaherty that the budget tabled today in the House of Commons includes $15 million (over three years) for Ready, Willing and Able—an initiative of the Canadian Association for Community Living and its Member Associations — […]

October 31, 2013 (Montreal) The Edmonton Court of Queen’s Bench today pronounced sentencing in the case of Betty Anne Gagnon, a woman with an intellectual and a visual impairment who died while under the care of her sister and brother-in-law. Denise Scriven and Michael Scriven were each sentenced to twenty months in prison for failure […]