FASD Hope is a podcast about Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD), through the lens of parent advocates with over eighteen years of lived experience.

Episode 43 highlights Sara Swan, a returning guest (and a favorite guest of Natalie Vecchione, FASD Hope podcast host). Sara Swan is the founder of Looking Forward Life Coaching, a nonprofit organization that provides person-centered, life coaching. Sara has been teaching for over twenty years and her specialty, throughout her extensive teaching career has been transitioning students (in special education) out of high school and into the community. She has also mentored several high school and college-age individuals as they headed into adulthood and still remains a part of their lives. Sara is the guardian of her uncle, who is a person with intellectual disabilities, and helps him make decisions to better the quality of his life. Sara created Looking Forward Life Coaching because she saw a need with her students that were falling between the cracks. Looking Forward Life Coaching changes the stumbling blocks of life into stepping stones towards success.

In this ENGAGING and ENCOURAGING episode, Sara and Natalie discuss the following topics: update since last interview, their experiences of being moms to young-adult sons, how parents can help teens with brain-based diagnoses learn their skills / gifts, reassurance for parents of teens / young adults with FASD / brain-based diagnoses, how parents can encourage those teens and young adults to make "baby steps" towards their futures, the benefits of having a Gap Year and her words of hope.

"And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching." - Hebrews 10: 24-25

EPISODE RESOURCES - 

Looking Forward Life Coaching

https://lookingforwardlc.org/

Sara Swan, Founder and Executive Director

[email protected]

Facebook @lookingforwardlc

Instagram @lookingforwardlc

CAREER INVENTORY LINKS-

https://www.careeronestop.org/Toolkit/Careers/interest-assessment.aspx

https://uhcc.hawaii.edu/jobcenter/riasec_multiLang.php

FASD Hope-

https://www.fasdhope.com/

Natalie Vecchione (podcast host) - [email protected]

Instagram - @fasdhope

Facebook - @fasdhope1

Pinterest - @fasdhope1

Clubhouse - @natalievecc