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		<title>The long history behind BC&#8217;s group home cuts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NOTE: Please visit our new Group Home Cuts Web page for more news and information on this issue 
Background
There has been constant and often intense pressure to close professionally-staffed group homes for adults with developmental disabilities and reduce the role of unionized care arrangements since the BC Liberals took office in 2001. 
There are good reasons to offer alternatives, as group homes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://momsnetwork.ca/2010/06/28/the-long-history-behind-bcs-group-home-cuts/</link>
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		<title>Disabled adults fighting back to save their homes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Victoria Times Colonist has been covering a nasty fight taking shape as Community Living BC has been strongly pressuring agencies to close group homes in an effort to find more than $20 million in savings.
Agencies and group home residents are complaining about strong-arm bully tactics by CLBC, as developmentally disabled adults are forced out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://momsnetwork.ca/2010/06/28/disabled-adults-fighting-back-to-save-their-homes/</link>
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		<title>Special Education and the Private/Public debate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We recently had a lively but respectful discussion on our email network on the public/private education debate as it relates to special education in particular, with a wide range of views.  Here are my thoughts. Please add  further comments covering anything I've missed, or let me know if we have permission to post your earlier [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://momsnetwork.ca/2010/05/04/special-education-and-the-privatepublic-debate/</link>
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		<title>BCers want more early intervention!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is some good news for a change - but will BC's government listen?
The Tyee Online
Poll shows support for increasing early childhood spending
Tom Sandborn
April 28, 2010
More than 70 per cent of B.C. residents underestimate how many of the province's children enter school developmentally vulnerable, an Angus Reid poll released today shows.
And most of those polled [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://momsnetwork.ca/2010/04/28/strong-support-for-early-intervention-spending/</link>
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		<title>Youth hits black hole at 19, MCFD seizes siblings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This has to be one of the most heartbreaking stories I've heard.  CBC News readers have reacted with an outpouring of outrage, but whether this has any power to move Ministers Coleman or Polak remains unclear:

CBC News: 
Children taken because of mentally ill brother
Kamloops parents say lack of government help for son put other children at risk


April 27, 2010
A [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://momsnetwork.ca/2010/04/28/youth-hits-black-hole-at-19-mcfd-seizes-siblings/</link>
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		<title>Busy fighting education cuts&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven't been able to post updates in the past month, with every spare moment devoted to trying to stop or at least mitigate the horrendous cuts to special education - and everything else - in our public schools across this Province.
Here are some links to information on education and special education cuts:

Vancouver Parents for Successful [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://momsnetwork.ca/2010/04/28/busy-fighting-education-cuts/</link>
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		<title>Op Ed: Cutting social services won&#8217;t pay benefits</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following is an excellent Op-Ed published couple weeks ago in the Victoria Times Colonist. Sadly the 2010 Provincial budget presented March 3 promises exactly the sort of short-sighted, "penny wise, pound foolish" cuts that Ms Charlesworth warned against.
Cutting social services won't pay benefits
Slashing government programs will push up health-care costs
By Jennifer Charlesworth, Special to Times Colonist
February [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://momsnetwork.ca/2010/03/05/op-ed-cutting-social-services-wont-pay-benefits/</link>
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		<title>Update on MCFD restructuring &amp; budget</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Ministry for Children &#38; Families, which now has responsibility for managing and funding all out-of-school services and supports for children and youth with special needs, faces significant challenges in the year ahead.
Despite promises to protect the budgets for special needs, senior Ministry staff have confirmed that unfunded new costs and rising demands will further strain existing services. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://momsnetwork.ca/2010/03/05/update-on-mcfd-restructuring-budget/</link>
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		<title>BC Professionals condemn autism cuts, changes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As Victoria parents prepared for a candlelight vigil at the Legislature Monday Feb 1 to mourn the Province's closure of critical autism early intervention programs, the BC Association for Behaviour Analysis -- the equivalent of the BC Medical Association -- issued a lengthy position statement criticizing these and other recent autism policy changes.
The Association calls for significant increases to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://momsnetwork.ca/2010/01/31/bc-professionals-condemn-autism-cuts-changes/</link>
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		<title>Boards warn of looming cuts targetting Special Ed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Vancouver and Victoria join the growing list of BC school districts warning that special education could bear the brunt of unprecedented budget cuts projected for 2010-11, due to unfunded costs that the province is downloading on school boards.  
 Surrey: Last week, Surrey DPAC warned that some $18-20 million in downloaded/unfunded provincial costs will result in program cuts that directly harm students. (Press [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://momsnetwork.ca/2010/01/28/boards-warn-of-looming-cuts-targetting-special-ed/</link>
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