About Healthy Brains for Children

Our Goals

• Establish community led chapters of Healthy Brains for Children across the nation and the world.
• Educate with educators who understand brain damage from prenatal exposure to alcohol and how that impacts our classrooms.
• Educate all students of the dangers of drinking during pregnancies. Educate the medical profession, the education profession, and all service professions of impact prenatal exposure to alcohol is having on our society.
• 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.
• Contribute to the research on the impact prenatal exposure to alcohol is having on our society.

Executive Director

Jody Allen Crowe has spent 18 years on reservations as a teacher, principal and superintendent where he learned first hand the devastation of prenatal exposure to alcohol. He developed award-winning school programs designed around the research of brain damage from Prenatal Exposure to Alcohol. He is the founder of Healthy Brains for Children, a non-profit organization focused on lowering the incidence of prenatal exposure to alcohol.

Executive Director: Healthy Brains for Children
Eagan, Minnesota

Executive Director: Studio Academy
Rochester, Minnesota, (8/10 - 4/12)

Executive Director: TEAM Academy
Waseca, Minnesota, (2007 - 2009)

Superintendent: Shoshone Bannock School District #537
Fort Hall, Idaho, (8/05 - 6/07)

Educational Consultant: Self Employed
(8/02 - 8/05)

Principal: Nay Ah Shing School
Onamia, Minnesota, (11/93 - 8/02)

Teacher: Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig School
Cass Lake, Minnesota, (9/89 - 11/93)

Board of Directors