Minga Marketplace
The Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Resource Store at The Asante Centre for Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Minga Marketplace is The Asante Centre's on-line FASD Resource Store. Please visit our website for FASD Resource Books, DVDs, Posters and Awareness Gifts and Promotions. If you are looking for a particular resource and we don't carry it, please contact us and we will do our best to obtain it for you!
To view Minga Marketplace's catalogue go to www.asantecentre.org/store.html, and then click Resource Catalogue.
Minga Marketplace has added new FASD Resources to our catalogue. Here are some of the newest titles!
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FASD - A Resource for Manitoba First Nations Schools
Manitoba First Nations Education Resource Centre.
Russ is a part of the Visions and Voices project and works at MFNERC
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FASD - Drawing Hope (2011)
The Healthy Aboriginal Network
Living with FASD - Drawing Hope is a collection of five comics, based on stories told by members of the Whitecrow Village community. The stories are about struggling in school, the importance of friendships and receiving support from friends and family.
ID: 101070
Price: $5.00 -
5 DVD Set and Book: FASD Relationships - What I Have Learned About Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (2011)
Rod Densmore, M.D.
Rod Densmore offers a unique perspective on FASD-related issues as both a medical practitioner and a parent of a young adult with FASD. With the intention of adding a practical, well-referenced, accessible, engaging and inexpensive teaching tool to existing resources, Densmore has successfully compiled research findings on a large variety of topics relevant to FASD and translated them into user-friendly language. He addresses the complexity of these issues through the expertise of a medical professional, yet with the sensitivity and passion that comes from parenting a person with FASD. FASD Relationships encompasses a book and five DVD set, with each chapter of the book forming a series of modules about FASD.
ID: 102020
Price: $45.00 -
9 LIVES: Learning Opportunity Guide, Students' Edition (February 2011)
Jan Crossen
A student's companion workbook to the 9 LIVES Trilogy. By reading the series and taking advantage of teachable moments, students explore such themes as: alcohol, drugs, pregnancy, tolerance, diversity, bullying, special needs, foster care, adoption, love, respect, cultural heritage, family, traditions, sportsmanship, self-esteem, volunteerism, and community. They practice reading and retention, vocabulary building, spelling, geography and math skills. They broaden their knowledge of African American history and gain practical skills and information for keeping themselves and others safe and healthy.
ID: 101058
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9 LIVES: Learning Opportunity Guide, Teachers' Edition (February 2011)
Jan Crossen
This Learning Opportunity Guide provides parents, middle and high school health teachers, and teen leaders and mentors with questions, discussions, and activities that are relevant in the lives of their students. By reading the series, and taking advantage of teachable moments as they are presented in the books, students explore a variety of themes such as: FASD, pregnancy, alcohol, drugs, tolerance, diversity, bullying, special needs, foster care, adoption, love, respect, cultural heritage, family, traditions, sportsmanship, self-esteem, volunteer-ism, and community. They practice their reading and retention, vocabulary building, spelling, geography and math skills. They broaden their knowledge of African American history and gain practical skills and information for keeping themselves and others safe and healthy.
ID: 101059
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Little Heroes #4: Sensory Integration
Ira Chasnoff, MD
NTI Upstream
This edition of Little Heroes is designed to help parents, caretakers, and teachers understand sensory processing problems and explain them to thehir children. The stories are all true, based on children that have been seen at our partner clinic in Chicago called Children's Research Triangle. The Little Heroes series is meant to guide you, through story and pictures, to help children understand why they feel the way they do based on problems that are beyond their control. The accompanying Parent's Guide provides a much fuller explanation of sensory integration and behavior problems.
ID: 101069
Price: $10.95 -
Little Heroes #3: Overseas Adoption
Ira Chasnoff, MD
NTI Upstream
This edition of Little Heroes is designed to help parents and caretakers explain overseas adoption to their children. The stories are all true, based on children that have been seen at our partner clinic in Chicago called Children's Research Triangle. The Little Heroes series is meant to guide you, through story and pictures, to help foster and adopted children understand why they feel the way they do based on problems that are beyond their control. The book can also be used to help siblings and other caretakers understand their own feelings about having a new child in the home, so that they, too, can participate in the healing process. The accompanying Parent's Guide provides a much fuller explanation of overseas adoption, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and attachment problems.
ID: 101068
Price: $10.95 -
Little Heroes #2: Adoption and Foster Care
Ira Chasnoff, MD
NTI Upstream
This edition of Little Heroes is designed to help parents and caretakers explain foster care to their children. The stories are all true, based on children that have been seen at our partner clinic in Chicago called Children's Research Triangle. The Little Heroes series is meant to guide you, through story and pictures, to help foster and adopted children understand why they feel the way they do based on problems that are beyond their control. The book can also be used to help siblings and other caretakers understand their own feelings about having a new child in the home, so that they, too, can participate in the healing process. The accompanying Parent's Guide provides a much fuller explanation of foster care and attachment problems.
ID: 101067
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Little Heroes #1: FASD
Ira Chasnoff, MD
NTI Upstream
Little Heroes #1: FASD is designed to help parents explain Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (previously known as Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Fetal Alcohol Effects) to their children. The stories are all true, based on children that have been seen at our partner clinic in Chicago called Children's Research Triangle. The Little Heroes series is meant to guide you, through story and pictures, to help alcohol-affected children understand why they behave the way they do. The book can also be used to help siblings, teachers, and other caretakers understand the behaviors exhibited by alcohol-affected children, so that they, too, can participate in the healing process for the child.
ID: 101066
Price: $10.95 -
The Listening Heart Learning Guide for Parents and Professionals (2004)
Ira J. Chasnoff, MD
NTI Upstream
The information provided in this booklet complements the documentary film The Listening Heart and offers an in-depth discussion of the basic facts about FAS, providing insight into the reasons behind children's behaviors. Each chapter in the booklet includes clear learning objectives and intervention strategies for children with problematic behavior.
ID: 101065
Price: $10.95 -
Womblife: How a pregnant mother's love affects her child's development for a lifetime (2011)
Arthur Janov
NTI Upstream
Psychological science will need to push back the envelope to find the origins of countless adult personality problems, physical symptoms, and serious afflictions, if Dr. Janov's writings are borne out. In Womblife he cites sudy after study showing how experience at birth and in the womb have enduring life consequences, laying the foundation for later life anxiety and depressive disorders, heart attacks, and cancer. During pregnancy and the first life events are imprinted into the system and affects how aggressive or passive we will become, how despairing or optimistic we will be, and how driven or lethargic we will find ourselves. This work will have a great impact on psychotherapy as we know it, pushing back the focus of doctors to events during pregnancy that can no longer be ignored.
ID: 101064
Price: $27.50 -
Adoption Options (2011)
Kyle Weir, PhD
NTI Upstream
Adoption Options: What Choice is Right For Your Family? Is an informative, research-based guide for parents considering domestic adoption for the first time. In it family therapist, California State University professor Kyle Weir, PhD, guides prospective parents through seven salient features found to impact adoption outcomes, including age of placement, medical/special needs, placement history, parental care history, prenatal history, demographic variable, and issues of child development.
ID: 101063
Price: $27.50 -
FASD: Across the Span of Childhood
Authors: Ira J. Chasnoff, MD, Gregory Bailey, PhD, Amy Groessl, LCSW, Cheryl Pratt, PhD, Linda D. Schwartz, PhD, Courtney West, PhD, Erin Telford, PsyD, Christine Schmidt, PsyD, Gwendolyn Messer, MD, Lindsay K. Bailey, MS
NTI Upstream
FASD: Across the Span of Childhood is a handbook for parents and healthcare providers who want to learn more about Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) and how it is manifest from the newborn period through adolescence. Each chapter includes concise learning objectives, criteria for diagnosis, recommendations for early intervention, and strategies for the home and school.
ID: 101062
Price: $10.95 -
The Mystery of Risk (2010)
Ira J. Chasnoff, MD
NTI Upstream
Dr. Ira J. Chasnoff distills the complex process of attunement a substance-exposed child and parent undergo as the child grows from infancy to adulthood. Intended for parents, caregivers, and professionals who care for children, the groundbreaking new book provides a lucid examination of the concept of risk. Scientific evidence and true stories of children reveal how prenatal exposure to alcohol and drugs induces a child's biological vulnerability to environmental stressors that later prey on that vulnerability.
ID: 101061
Price: $27.50 -
DVD: The Listening Heart Special Edition
Gabe Chasnoff
NTI Upstream
The Listening Heart: Special Edition is designed to help both professionals and parents teach about Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. This comprehensive learning package includes the 45-minute documentary film, a fully-scripted PowerPoint presentation on FAS, and a 65-page Learning Guide that provides additional details on the basic facts about FAS.
ID: 102022
Price $129.00 -
DVD: The Listening Heart (39 Minutes)
Gabe Chasnoff
NTI Upstream
The Listening Heart is an educational documentary that chronicles the day-to-day challenges of children, parents, and families who struggle with the consequences of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. The Listening Heart offers a unique look into the world of FAS through the eyes of medical experts, adoptive parents, and those directly affected by the disorder - the children.
ID: 102021
Price: $27.50
