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Children's Special Services
Children's Special Services provides support to families to care for children
who have physical and/or mental disabilities. This family support
reduces stress encountered by families and helps them maintain
their children with disabilities in their own homes to the greatest
extent possible.
Family supports include:
- counselling;
- information and referral;
- respite care;
- child development;
- therapy services;
- supplies and equipment;
- home modifications;
- transportation; and
- training.
Community Service Delivery staff in district offices throughout the province
deliver the services to eligible families.
Who is eligible?
Natural, extended or adoptive families who have
a child 17 years of age and under living with them are eligible
if a child has one or more of the following:
- a mental and/or physical disability;
- a developmental delay;
- a risk of developmental delay;
- a pervasive developmental disorder such as autism; or
- lifelong extreme complex medical needs which result in a dependency on medical
technology.
Community Service Delivery staff work closely with the Manitoba
Child Care Program, Child
Protection, Healthy Child
Manitoba, the voluntary sector, hospitals, schools, and agencies.
As well, Community Service Delivery staff work cooperatively with
the provincial departments of Education
and Youth, and Health
to coordinate programs and activities.
Children's Special Services also:
- develops policies and program guidelines
for the delivery of services to Manitoba children who have disabilities;
- provides consultation and funding to non-government agencies that deliver therapy,
respite and family support services, such as the Society for
Manitobans with Disabilities, St. Amant Centre, the Rehabilitation
Centre for Children, Community Respite Services, Central Speech
and Hearing Clinic, and Open Access Resource Centre; and
- provides leadership and develops resources to meet demands.
For more information, see Connecting
with Children's Special Services:
Answers to questions families often ask.
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