Overview

The Alcohol and Pregnancy Project seeks to support and promote Western Australian (WA) health professionals' practice with their clients and patients around the issue of alcohol use in pregnancy. By providing health professionals with evidence-based resources on alcohol and pregnancy, the specific aims of the project are to increase the proportion of WA health professionals who routinely ask pregnant women about alcohol and routinely provide pregnant women with information on the consequences of alcohol use during pregnancy.

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) describes a range of effects that can occur in an individual who was exposed to alcohol during pregnancy. The effects may include physical, mental, behavioural, and/or learning disabilities with possible lifelong effects.