Description
November 12, 2025 | 12:00 – 1:00 PM Integrating Care for Complex Needs: FASD, Polysubstance Exposure, and Trauma.
Description:
Dr. Roxanne Chang’s presentation will address key management approaches and supports for children with FASD, taking into consideration commonly co-occurring contributors to neurodevelopmental and neurobehavioral challenges such as polysubstance exposure and traumatic stressors. The presentation will also address commonly encountered pitfalls with traditional behavioral approaches and in educational environments.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify 3 key domains of challenge contributing to the neurobehavioral phenotype of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders.
- Describe the impact of co-occurrence of trauma and polysubstance exposures with FASD.
- Identify 2 key trauma-informed management strategies for children with FASD.
Presenter: Roxanne Chang, MD, FAAP
Roxanne S. Chang, MD, FAAP, is a pediatrician in Torrance, California who has dedicated her 20+ years in practice to serving children and families from “hard places” – those with complex medical needs, developmental disabilities, foster and adoptive families, and those facing an array of difficulties from homelessness to substance use. She is an assistant clinical professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and performs the bulk of her teaching and clinical work at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center serving the underserved. She is also affiliated with Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health, consulting with largely foster and adoptive families affected by prenatal substance and alcohol exposures and trauma. She works to increase awareness of and improve systems of care for families impacted by neurodevelopmental and neurobehavioral disorders, including FASDs.
Continuing Medical Education:
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the Hanley Center for Health Leadership and Education and CCSME. The Hanley Center for Health Leadership and Education is accredited by the Maine Medical Association Committee on Continuing Medical Education and Accreditation to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The Hanley Center for Health Leadership and Education designates this regularly scheduled series for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit ™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
*Nurses and Nurse Practitioners will be awarded a certificate of participation with a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit ™.
This course has been approved by Co-Occurring Collaborative Serving Maine (CCSME), as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for 1 educational credits. NAADAC Provider #324712, CCSME is responsible for all aspects of the programming.
Contact Hours 1 contact hours for social workers, licensed clinical professional counselors, and behavioral health professionals.
1 Category 1 Contact hours for psychologists. CCSME is a pre-approved sponsor and provider of Professional Education Activities for Psychologists.
1 contract hours CHES. CCSME is a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission of Health Education Credentialing, Inc.
