The current program budget is $667M, but that will serve about 20,000 children in core clinical therapies, document says.
“Families can access a range of other OAP services, but most children and youth will not receive core clinical services funding in the short to medium term,” the document says.
Many families pay for therapy for their kids out of pocket while they wait for public funding and they need to know whether to remortgage their house, for example, in order to keep footing the bill, Cameron said.Article content The Tories scrapped the former Liberal government’s needs-based autism program four and a half years ago because it had long waits. Their own needs-based program is currently in place, with long waits.
“Depending on when they transition to core clinical services, some of these children and youth may experience a gap in services,” Parsa’s transition binder says.The ministry is monitoring “levels of need and how families prioritize spending their funding allocations” and will give the Treasury Board an updated forecast in the fall on costing and the wait list, the internal document says.
As of March, more than 12,000 children were registered to receive core services, the document says. About 6,400 had completed their determination of needs interview, through which their level of funding is set. The money is then supposed to flow fairly quickly, though some families have reported delays in getting it or not being able to spend it due to a shortage of therapists.
Their funding levels have been maintained until now, but about half will eventually receive less government-funded therapy because their current programs exceed the maximum funding allocation for the new provincial program.
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