Planning with Partners
Healthy Child Manitoba Protocols
These Healthy Child Manitoba protocols have been developed and revised in collaboration with school divisions and respective service agencies. It is our expectation that ongoing collaborative planning and information sharing between our respective service jurisdictions will greatly improve educational outcomes for children.
This Healthy Child Manitoba protocol, replaces the Manitoba Transition Planning Process Support Guidelines for Students with Special Needs Reaching Age 16 (1999). It is intended for transition planning partners including educators, staff from Manitoba Family Services and Housing, designated agencies, Regional Health Authority programs/services and Child and Family Services agencies.
As students enter the senior years, they need to identify their goals for the future and begin to plan for their options in life after high school. The goal of Bridging to Adulthood is to help partners plan for students with exceptional needs that require supports from the provincial government, its agencies and/or Regional Health Authorities after leaving school. The transition planning process facilitates timely access to available adult supports. Supports may assist individuals to contribute to the economic, social and cultural life of Manitoba.
Guidelines
for Registration of Students in Care of Child Welfare Agencies (
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School divisions and child and family services personnel have recognized the need for increased information sharing and collaboration in planning for children taken into care who must be relocated to a new school. Some of these children have special requirements that necessitate joint planning to provide appropriate programs and services. In addition to being moved outside their home school division, these children are usually experiencing very stressful emotional circumstances and require as smooth a transition as possible during this difficult time.
This Healthy Child Manitoba protocol has been developed and revised in collaboration with school divisions and child and family services agencies. We are requesting that school division and local child and family service personnel use these guidelines to assist them as they begin the information sharing and collaborative planning for children in care.
Guidelines for Early Childhood Transition to School for Children with Special Needs
This Healthy Child Manitoba protocol, developed and revised in collaboration with our colleagues in school divisions and child daycare agencies, is designed to facilitate community-based agencies working with preschool children with special needs to exchange information with the school system prior (one year) to the child enrolling. This protocol will enable the school system to prepare for the child and initiate professional development and training for staff.
We are requesting that school division and preschool agency personnel use this protocol as they begin the information sharing and collaborative planning for the transition of children with special needs into the school system.
Provincial Positive Behaviour Support
The Provincial Positive Behaviour Support (PPBS) Committee was established in December 2004 to assist school divisions across Manitoba with developing systemic and school-wide approaches to prevent and address behavioural concerns in schools.