In this blog you may invite everyone who want to support the NoCuts campaign for the three Provincial Advisor Offices. It is a way to have everything centralized and to avoid the crazyness of email. You my post pictures too. It is a very powerful way and easy to do. This can be deleted and dismantled in a second.
These are aspects I see would be useful to highlight in chain letters to the government:
-The three provincial advisors have a unifying and centralizing role as they advise programs scattered throughout the ....sq Km in BC, in five regions. Their existence IS what allows for the programs to run smoothly and maintain the coordination working with their regional advisors and staff. Wiithout this vision, centralization, leadership, coordination and collaboration, the regional advisors' work will be impacted and lose the cohesiveness and consistency that has characterized these programs up to know. This type of liasing position represented through the Advisors is is the essence of the programs' effectiveness in providing coordinated services to families throughout BC and at a minimum cost of 2-3 people in each office - housed within an umbrella organization.
-The three provincial advisors IDP, AIDP and SCDP have created the "Partnerships" program where they draw on resources and expertise to support the flow of the different
programs so that there is an "integration" of services for children and
families, and also for consultants who work collaboratively
-The way they do it is by working with all the therapy services that are available for
children (birth to age 12 years), so they partner with the Pediatric
Physiotherapy Association of BC etc.
-Having cut these Advisors roles, the P- IDSC (Provincial Infant Development Steering Committee) is basically dismantled.
- These offices work with 2 people in eaach office, the advisor and an assistant and
six people in the province are moving mountains (steering the programs,
professional development, ongoing training (i.e.., here goes the IDSC
diploma and certificate program, the Assessment Workshop, the bathcutb, the
water, the baby, the siblings) , connecting services that have been
traditionally fragmented, creating partnerships) the list goes on.
-More recently, the IDP joined partnerships with HELP through the Social Inclusion Project. The first phase of the project, now completed is summarized under a report that can be viewed and printed through this link:
http://www.earlylearning.ubc.ca/documents/2009/Social-Inclusion-Project-Report-Jul-2009.pdf
-To view/print the resource click on www.earlylearning.ubc.ca/sdpp
-Funding for Phase 2 of this project is pending approval. SCDP and AIDP have joined as partners for this second phase where the age range is extended from birth to age 6 to age 12; rural communities are incorporated and issues with poverty will be analyzed within the context of early child special needs development.
-A very recent doctoral dissertation on families experiences with IDP EI services can be downloaded from https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/5308 (Pighini, 2008)
Hope thisis all helpful.
The fight has only started!:) "We do not have to take CUTS for an answer"
