TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2018//
TI  - The Manitoba youth justice program: empowering and supporting FASD affected youth in conflict with the law
JO  - Biochemistry and cell biology
A1  - Longstaffe, Sally Elizabeth
A1  - Chudley, Albert
A1  - Harvie, Mary Kate
A1  - Brown, Teresa
A1  - Neault, Dan
A1  - Markesteyn, Trevor John
SP  - 260
EP  - 266
VL  - 96
IS  - 2
N2  - Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) describes a constellation of physical, cognitive, neurologic and behavioral impairments resulting from prenatal exposure to alcohol. FASD is recognized as being one of the largest causes of preventable brain injury in children. There had long been concerns that some youth in conflict with the law may be affected with FASD given repetitive patterns of offending and apparent lack of understanding of consequences of their actions. In 2004 funding was received from Justice Canada for a pilot project with a cross departmental steering committee working together to determine a best way of working across systems to provide FASD assessments to these youth. It was recognized that provision of timely FASD assessments would allow the Court to provide more meaningful sentences taking into account the youth's strengths and challenges and enhance the chances of decreased recidivism and increase chances of rehabilitation. This paper describes the basic science around FASD and its' diagnosis, provides a history of the Manitoba FASD Youth Justice Program and reports on legal issues, structure, statistics, accomplishments and ongoing future challenges.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0829-8211
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/bcb-2017-0078
ID  - ref1
ER  -