Year: 1994 - 95 AGM December 1, 1994 - SSAAM

SOUTH CENTRAL
REGIONAL REPORT
June 9th, 1995
1. On April 28th, at Carman Collegiate, Pat MacDonald addressed
a group of approximately 100 principals, resource teachers,
classroom teachers, superintendents, co-ordinators & parents
on the "M" Designation.
The final document, "Towards Inclusion" and the document
"Foundations of Excellence" will be released at the end of
June or early fall. Further regional meetings will be held
to explain the new information. The 95-96 year will be a
transition year for implementing the new course
designations.
2. At our June 1st meeting, Richard Asselin and Muriel
Underwood from Childrens' Special Services addressed the
group regarding Medically Fragile/Technology Dependent
Students.
- $200,000 has been transferred from Health to Family
Services for training for category B students (Level
II - Winnipeg #1 Health Care Manual). Candace
Plouffe will be used as the Department of Education
contact for the 60-80 students entering school this
fall.
Training is "child specific" - if trained for one
student the teacher assistant must be retrained
for a new child.
- Enhanced Low Incidence III Funding for community
health care (nursing, instructional aid etc). This
is accessed through the regular Level III Funding
application, A new page will be added for
"technology dependent students".
- there will be a "Unified Referral and Intake System"
(URIS_ for identifying students, their level of care
and the case manager.
by fail we will have a manual (binder) of procedures
for getting access.
- changing modol irv daycares- rather tHarv providing a.
special needs worker (which causes segregation and
dependence) a child developmental worker will train
the people in the daycare in handling the child.