Kelowna mom of girl with terminal condition upset over Starbright closure: ‘It means starting over’
Betty Teigen is the head of the infant development program at Starbright working with children like Raven.She agreed with Peters’ concern about the FCC’s age range, adding there’s quite a bit of research on the importance of age-appropriate training.
“The Council for Exceptional Children has some standards that they advise for children with disabilities,” Teigen said. “They have issued several research articles that say that people need to have very specialized training in the age range they’re serving. So that would be birth to three, that would be three to five, five to eight and above.”“So it’s my opinion that it’s very hard to have expertise in all of the areas up from zero to 18.
The provincial government has awarded the $14 million per year contract to Arc Programs, a private company that will operate the FCC and sub-contract out services to other private companies and non-profit organizations. Starbright’s contract was set to end on March 31 but the province has since decided to give it transitional funding until the end of June to give parents more time to move over to the centralized model.
“Children aren’t really a pilot project,” Peters said. “The services are already working. They have been working for the last 50 years. I don’t see the need to close Starbright.”The impending closure of the Starbright Children’s Development Centre in Kelowna has donors concerned and upset
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