Healthy Brains for Children

Please join the newly formed non-profit organization Healthy Brains for Children. I don't know if I can express how urgently I feel about getting the message out to our schools, communities, and nation.


The goals of the organization will be to:

1. Educate with educators who understand brain damage from prenatal exposure to alcohol and how that impacts our classrooms
2. Educate all students of the dangers of drinking during pregnancies.
3. Educate the medical profession, the education profession, and all service professions of the impact prenatal exposure to alcohol is having on our society.
4. Lower the number of children coming to early education and kindergarten with learning and behavioral difficulties brought on by brain damage from prenatal exposure to alcohol.
5. Support research of the societal effects of prenatal exposure to alcohol

Please help me with this initiative. The first thing I need to do is publish my book, "The Fatal Link" I currently have the book with a publisher. This book is about what I have learned about the brain damage caused by prenatal exposure to alcohol and how that has impacted our families, schools, communities, and society. This book will reveal to our nation for the first time the connection between school shooters and the fact a high percentage of their mothers habitually drank alcohol, exposing the fetus to alcohol causing brain damage, the Fatal Link. Never has any of the studies of school shooters or any of the talking heads even been close to seeing this link. I have chosen to pay to have the book published while retaining the rights to the book. If I signed the rights away, the publisher could change the message and I will not allow anyone to change the message, as I do not know anyone who knows what I know about the subject. A special thanks to some of you who have helped me with the book.

I believe this book needs to be read by every school teacher, every family practitioner, every psychologist, every social worker, etc. I do not believe there is another educator who has the background and understanding I have as to how this totally preventable tragedy is impacting our schools everyday. My goal is to bring this to our nation's attention. I need your help.

If you are interested in supporting our organization, please send at least $100. With that donation, you will become a member of Healthy Brains for Children. Upon receiving our 501 c 3 status, all your donations will be tax deductible. I believe this organization will become self-sustaining after the publication of the book and with the speaking engagements that will follow. I will serve as the volunteer Executive Director for the organization until such time the organization is solid and can afford to pay for my services. For my current colleagues, I am happily serving as the Director of TEAM Academy Charter School in Waseca, MN and plan to remain as such. Healthy Brains for Children does not need to sustain a salaried position.

I have been speaking on this subject for some time now. I have presented to superintendents, principals, teachers, para-professionals, non-profits, and funding organizations. I will be presenting to the Minnesota School Counselors and doing a three day training in Reno, Nevada in May. There are other opportunities coming that will create even more awareness. As this continues to expand, I need your help.

My immediate goals are to:

-establish the non-profit organization - cost $500

-publish the book - cost $10,000 (I will have more information on this in two weeks-cost relative to number of books printed. Large donations are accepted. I will find a non-profit fiscal agent until we get our 501 c 3 status)

-establish a website - cost $500 (beginning site) If someone has the know-how and time to assist with this, please let me know.


My longer range goals are to:

-develop a replicable model that can be used in communities that will bring educators, the medical profession, the clergy, the social services, and other entities together to learn the facts of the epidemic of prenatal exposure to alcohol, known as Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, and how they can work together to lower the number of prenatally exposed children.

-train and educate educators on FASD and what works in schools.

-bring this subject to the national stage in the form of the book, television programming, national conferences.

-fund research

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Any donations can be sent to :

Healthy Brains for Children
Jody Allen Crowe
1021 Mill Ave
Brainerd, MN 56401

Contact me at jodycrowe@gmail.com

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Upon donating, you will become a member of our organization with all the rights as detailed in the by-laws. I welcome you to this so very important initiative. If you are interested in having me speak in your community, contact me. If you know of others who would be interested in this initiative, please forward this email to them and/or have them contact me. If you would like me to come to your community to initiate a Healthy Brains Project, let's talk.