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Reuben Kittrell, FASD Services Coordinator, is a lifelong Massachusetts resident with a background in addiction treatment and mental health. He began his career as a direct care employee in inpatient long-term treatment units before transitioning to in-home treatment and training for a variety of providers and corporate employees. Reuben specializes in a variety of approaches particularly in trauma-informed care, motivational interviewing, and crisis management. His work focuses on training as well as creating, supporting, and maintaining educational and advocacy initiatives for FASD to offer crucial support to caregivers and professionals.
Kristen Eriksen, RN, Kristen has been a nurse with over 35 years of varied experience including pediatric, and obstetrical nursing, early intervention developmental services, with a recent focus on school nursing. Her personal history of raising twins with FASD since infancy has led to a new and different career path. “After adopting infant twins in 2007, my entire life trajectory changed. Starting in 2010, I began a long slow educational process to learn more about the challenges that my twins faced. When they were finally diagnosed with FASD at age 9, my deep dive into FASD began.” She began working with massFAS in January, 2022.
MassFAS was founded by Enid Watson in 2008 through the Institute for Health and Recovery.
Enid Watson, M.Div recently retired as Director of Screening and Early Identification Projects at the Institute for Health and Recovery. On behalf of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health/Bureau of Substance Addiction Services, founded the Massachusetts Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders State Coordinator position. Enid co-founded massFAS with Norma Finkelstein, PhD and MA families living children with an FASD. Enid provided local, national and international trainings on issues related to FASD, pregnancy and substance use for 22 years, and is on the Advisory Board of SAFEST Choice, a HRSA-funded initiative between Boston Medical Center and Proof Alliance to address and prevent Prenatal Alcohol Exposure (PAE) and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) in primary care. massFAS is a program of IHR ( the Institute for Health and Recovery