41st Parliament – 2019
Parliamentary Committee Proceedings
Children and Youth Committee
SUBJECT-SPEAKER INDEX
speeches by Members, committee staff and witnesses; topics raised
References are linked to time stamps in the transcript: e.g.,
73B:1435 = Issue 73, 2:35 p.m.
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Adams, Shawna
- Presentation to committee 26:1515-1530
- As subject
- Autism spectrum disorder, services 26:1515-1525
- Disabled persons, developmentally disabled persons, STADD program and navigators 26:1525
- Income assistance disability benefits, PWD application process 26:1520-1530
- Queen Alexandra Centre for Children's Health, autism early intervention program 26:1515-1520
- Special needs children and youth
ADHD See Neurodiverse disorders under Special needs children and youth
Adoption
- Adoption of children in government care (Koral, S.) 26:1510
Advocate for service quality
Alberta
- Services for special needs children and youth (Sandborn, K.) 26:1340
Aspies on Mars See also Sonntag, Tristan
At Home program See Intellectually disabled children, services under Disabled persons
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) See Neurodiverse disorders under Special needs children and youth
Autism spectrum disorder
- Autistic LGBTQ persons (Sonntag, T.) 26:1450
- Diagnosis and assessment
- Services
- Therapies (Crawford, N.) 26:1115-1120
Cannabis
Caregivers
Child protection system
Children and youth
Community Living British Columbia
- Eligibility criteria for services, guide assessment tool (Hoffman, J.) 26:1405-1415
- GSA tool See Eligibility criteria for services, guide assessment tool above
- Service delivery and funding model (Hoffman, J.) 26:1415
Crawford, Nadia
- Presentation to committee 26:1110-1125
- As subject
- Autism spectrum disorder, therapies 26:1115-1120
- Special needs children and youth
Currie, Hazel
- Presentation to committee 26:1135-1145
- As subject
- Autism spectrum disorder
- diagnosis and assessment 26:1140
- services, eligibility for services 26:1140
- Education, special education and special needs, assessments 26:1140
- Special needs children and youth, neurodiverse disorders, stigma 26:1140-1145
Demmler, Jeanine
- Presentation to committee 26:1125-1135
- As subject
- Special needs children and youth
- Speech-language pathologists, services and funding 26:1130
Disabled persons
Education
- Special education and special needs
- assessments (Currie, H.) 26:1140 (Humphreys, T.) 26:1150
- inclusive education and exclusions (Humphreys, T.) 26:1145-1155 (Leonard) 26:1155 (Throness) 26:1155
- service levels and education assistants (Humphreys, T.) 26:1150-1155 (Krogstad, T.) 26:1345 (Lockrey, C.) 26:1000-1005 (Stanton, J.) 26:1020-1025 (Throness) 26:1345
- special education and special needs (Goth, S.) 26:1535-1540 (Krogstad, T.) 26:1340-1350 (Stanton, J.) 26:1010, 26:1020
- transitions between school levels (Humphreys, T.) 26:1150
- use of isolation rooms (Sonntag, T.) 26:1445-1450
EHS See Electromagnetic hypersensitivity
Electromagnetic hypersensitivity
- Incidence, impacts and response (Hoffmann, J.) 26:1420-1430
- Symptoms, occurence (Stilwell) 26:1430
Environment
- Precautionary principle (Hoffmann, J.) 26:1425
Families
FASD See Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder
Finance and Government Services Committee
- Prebudget consultation process (Simons) 26:1010
- Prebudget consultation process and recommendations (Lockrey, C.) 26:1000
Foster care
- Transition to permanent homes (Koral, S.) 26:1510
Health care system
- Services for children and youth
- development screening programs See Early childhood development under Children and youth
- telehealth services (Lockrey, C.) 26:1005
- Services for intellectually disabled persons and inclusive health initiative (Howe, S.) 26:1040
Hoffman, Judy
- Presentation to committee 26:1405-1415
- Community Living B.C.
- eligibility criteria for services, guide assessment tool 26:1405-1415
- service delivery and funding model 26:1415
- Disabled persons, intellectually disabled children and youth
Hoffmann, Janis
- Presentation to committee 26:1420-1430
- As subject
- Electromagnetic hypersensitivity, incidence, impacts and response 26:1420-1430
- Environment, precautionary principle 26:1425
- Information and communications technology, wireless technology, potential health impacts 26:1425-1430
- Representative for Children and Youth, advocacy 26:1415
- School districts, handling of wireless technology and concerns 26:1420-1430
Howe, Scott
- Presentation to committee on behalf of Special Olympics B.C. 26:1035-1045
- Autism spectrum disorder, eligibility for services 26:1040-1045
- Disabled persons
- developmentally disabled persons, health screening and status 26:1035-1040
- intellectually disabled children, concurrent autism diagnosis 26:1040-1045
- Health care system, services for intellectually disabled persons and inclusive health initiative 26:1040
- Special needs children and youth
- diagnosis and assessment, process and wait-lists 26:1045
- neurodiverse disorders, multiple disorders 26:1040-1045
- services and eligibility 26:1040-1045
- services, transition to school system supports 26:1045
- Special Olympics B.C., activities and participants 26:1035
Humphreys, Tracy
- Presentation to committee on behalf of BCEdAccess Society 26:1145-1200
- As subject
- experience as parent of special needs child and role in advocacy 26:1145
- BCEdAccess Society, organization and services 26:1145
- Education, special education and special needs
- Special needs children and youth
- caregivers and issues 26:1155
- self-advocacy 26:1145
- services, transition to school system supports and to adult services 26:1150
- supports for families and outreach 26:1150-1155
Income assistance
Information and communications technology
- Wireless technology, potential health impacts (Hoffmann, J.) 26:1425-1430
Irving, Sierra
- Presentation to committee 26:1100
- As subject
- family's experience with special needs services 26:1100
- Social workers, children-and-youth-with-special-needs social workers 26:1100
- Special needs children and youth, services and supports for families 26:1100
Justice system
- Family justice system, handling of cases involving special needs children (Morris, M.) 26:1315-1320
Koral, Saydie
- Presentation to committee 26:1500-1515
- As subject
- Adoption of children in government care 26:1510
- Foster care, transition to permanent homes 26:1510
- Representative for Children and Youth, advocacy 26:1505
- Special needs children and youth, children in government care 26:1500-1515
Krogstad, Tia
- Presentation to committee 26:1340-1350
- As subject
- experience as parent of special needs child and educational assistant 26:1340-1350 (Throness) 26:1345
- Education
- special education and special needs 26:1340-1350
- service levels and education assistants 26:1345
- Special needs children and youth, services, system 26:1345
Leonard, Ronna-Rae (Courtenay-Comox)
- Adams, Shawna
- experience as parent of special needs children 26:1530
- Autism spectrum disorder
- diagnosis and assessment 26:1140
- services, youth with self-harming and violent behaviours 26:1400
- Currie, Hazel, experience as parent of special needs child 26:1140
- Education
- special education and special needs, inclusive education and exclusions 26:1155
- Pollard, Marcus, experience as parent of special needs child 26:1400
- Sandborn, Kristen, experience as parent of special needs children 26:1340
- Special needs children and youth
- Wicks, Adrianne, family's experience with special needs services 26:1105
- Zimmel, Nicole, experience as parent of special needs child 26:1445
LGBTQ community
Lockrey, Cynthia
- Presentation to committee 26:0955-1010
- As subjec
- Budgets, priorities 26:1000
- Education, special education and special needs, service levels and education assistants 26:1000-1005
- Finance and Government Services Committee, prebudget consultation process and recommendations 26:1000
- Health care system, services for children and youth, telehealth services 26:1005
- Special needs children and youth
- Speech-language pathologists, services 26:1000-1005
Mental health
- Mental health of children and youth
Morris, Mary
- Presentation to committee 26:1315-1325
- As subject
- experience as parent of children with special needs 26:1315-1325
- Justice system, family justice system, handling of cases involving special needs children 26:1315-1320
- Special needs children and youth
Police and policing
- Police handling of persons with neurodiverse disorders (Pollard, M.) 26:1350
Pollard, Marcus
- Presentation to committee 26:1350-1405
- As subject
- Autism spectrum disorder, services for youth with self-harming and violent behaviours 26:1350-1405
- Police and policing, police handling of persons with neurodiverse disorders 26:1350
- Queen Alexandra Centre for Children's Health, Ledger House facility 26:1355
- Special needs children and youth, services for high-needs children and youth 26:1350-1405
- Victor School facility 26:1400
- Victoria General Hospital, pediatric ward psychiatric facilities 26:1350-1355, 26:1405
Price, Kelly
- Presentation to committee on behalf of B.C. Psychological Association 26:0920-0940
- As subject
- professional experience in pediatric neuropsychology 26:0920
- Autism spectrum disorder
- diagnosis and assessment 26:0930
- services, wait-lists and waiting times 26:0940
- B.C. Psychological Association, membership 26:0930
- Mental health of children and youth, psychological services 26:0925, 26:0935-0940
- Psychologists
- Special needs children and youth
Psychologists
Queen Alexandra Centre for Children's Health, Victoria, B.C.
- Autism early intervention program (Adams, S.) 26:1515-1520
- Ledger House facility (Pollard, M.) 26:1355
Representative for Children and Youth
Sandborn, Kristen
- Presentation to committee 26:1325-1340
- As subject
- Alberta, services for special needs children and youth 26:1340
- Social workers, children-and-youth-with-special-needs social workers 26:1330-1335
- Special needs children and youth
- Vancouver Island Children's Assessment Network, assessment practices 26:1330
School districts
- Handling of wireless technology and concerns (Hoffmann, J.) 26:1420-1430
Simons, Nicholas (Powell River–Sunshine Coast)
- Advocate for service quality
- Aspies on Mars
- Children and Youth Committee
- project on services for special needs children and youth
- Crawford, Nadia, experience as parent of special needs child 26:1125
- Currie, Hazel, experience as parent of special needs child 26:1145
- Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder
- Finance and Government Services Committee
- prebudget consultation process 26:1010
- Koral, Saydie, experience as guardian of special needs children 26:1505
- Pollard, Marcus, experience as parent of special needs child 26:1400
- Representative for Children and Youth
- Social workers
- children-and-youth-with-special-needs social workers 26:1105
- Sonntag, Tristan, experience and advocacy as autistic person 26:1455
- Special needs children and youth
- Victor School
- Wicks, Adrianne
- family's experience with special needs services 26:1105-1110
- Zimmel, Nicole, experience as parent of special needs child 26:1440-1445
Singh, Rachna (Surrey–Green Timbers)
- Special needs children and youth
- Wicks, Adrianne
- family's experience with special needs services 26:1110
Social workers
Sonntag, Tristan
- Presentation to committee on behalf of Aspies on Mars 26:1445-1455
- As subject
- Aspies on Mars
- Autism spectrum disorder
- Disabled persons, rights 26:1450
- Education, special education and special needs, use of isolation rooms 26:1445-1450
- Income assistance disability benefits, rates 26:1450
- Mental health of children and youth, counselling services for autistic children and youth 26:1445-1450
- Special needs children and youth, services, transition to adult services 26:1450
Souter, Mary
- Presentation to committee 26:0945-0955
- As subject
- experience as special education social worker and parent of special needs children 26:0945-0950
- Special needs children and youth
Special needs children and youth See also Disabled children under Disabled persons; Autism spectrum disorder; Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder; Special education and special needs under Education
- Advocacy See also Supports for families below
- Advocacy, self-advocacy (Humphreys, T.) 26:1145
- Autism See Autism spectrum disorder
- Caregivers and issues (Humphreys, T.) 26:1155 (Leonard) 26:1445 (Simons) 26:1155 (Zimmel, N.) 26:1445
- Caregivers, government support (Sandborn, K.) 26:1335
- Children in government care (Koral, S.) 26:1500-1515 (Souter, M.) 26:0950 (Throness) 26:1510
- Custody issues (Morris, M.) 26:1315-1320
- Diagnosis and assessment
- Education See Special education and special needs under Education
- Eligibility for services See services and eligibility under Services below; Eligibility criteria under Community Living British Columbia
- Family supports See Supports for families below
- Fetal alcohol syndrome See Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder
- Medications, cannabis (Crawford, N.) 26:1115
- Neurodiverse disorders See also Autism spectrum disorder
- Respite benefits (Nash, C.) 26:1050-1055 (Sandborn, K.) 26:1330-1335 (Simons) 26:1055 (Throness) 26:1055
- Service providers, regulation (Stanton, J.) 26:1020
- Services
- administration (Lockrey, C.) 26:1005
- funding and funding model (Lockrey, C.) 26:1000-1010
- high-needs children and youth (Pollard, M.) 26:1350-1405 (Throness) 26:1400-1405
- At Home program See Intellectually disabled children under Disabled persons
- interministerial collaboration (Nash, C.) 26:1055
- psychological services See Mental health of children and youth under Mental health
- referrals (Demmler, J.) 26:1130-1135 (Throness) 26:1130
- services (Crawford, N.) 26:1115-1120 (Irving, S.) 26:1100 (Morris, M.) 26:1315-1325 (Simons) 26:1105-1110 (Singh) 26:1110 (Throness) 26:1110 (Wicks, A.) 26:1100-1110
- services and eligibility (Demmler, J.) 26:1125-1130 (Howe, S.) 26:1040-1045 (Lockrey, C.) 26:1000-1005 (Price, K.) 26:0930 (Sandborn, K.) 26:1330-1340 (Souter, M.) 26:0945-0955 (Throness) 26:0955, 26:1340
- system (Krogstad, T.) 26:1345 (Leonard) 26:1105 (Souter, M.) 26:0945 (Stanton, J.) 26:1025
- transition to adult services (Adams, S.) 26:1520-1530 (Humphreys, T.) 26:1150 (Simons) 26:1530 (Sonntag, T.) 26:1450 (Stilwell) 26:1525
- transition to school system supports See also Special education and special needs under Education
- wait-lists and waiting times (Nash, C.) 26:1050-1055 (Throness) 26:1055
- Supports for families
- Therapies, medications See Medications above
Special Olympics British Columbia See also Howe, Scott
Speech-language pathologists
Stanton, Jocelyn
- Presentation to committee 26:1010-1025
- As subject
- Autism spectrum disorder
- Children and youth, early childhood development, screening programs 26:1015
- Education
- Special needs children and youth
- diagnosis and assessment and training for front-line staff 26:1015
- service providers, regulation 26:1020
- services, system 26:1025
- supports for families 26:1020
- Teachers, training, behavioural intervention training 26:1025
Stilwell, Michelle (Parksville-Qualicum)
- Aspies on Mars
- Autism spectrum disorder
- B.C. Psychological Association
- Disabled persons
- developmentally disabled persons, STADD program and navigators 26:1525
- Electromagnetic hypersensitivity symptoms, occurence 26:1430
- Income assistance
- disability benefits, PWD application process 26:1525
- Psychologists
- number, public and private sectors 26:0930
- Special needs children and youth
- diagnosis and assessment 26:0930
- services
- transition to adult services 26:1525
Teachers
- Training, behavioural intervention training (Stanton, J.) 26:1025
Throness, Laurie (Chilliwack-Kent)
- Aspies on Mars group 26:1455
- Autism spectrum disorder
- diagnosis and assessment
- services
- Currie, Hazel, experience as parent of special needs child 26:1140
- Education, special education and special needs
- inclusive education and exclusions 26:1155
- service levels and education assistants 26:1345
- Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder
- Hoffmann, Janis, experience as grandparent of special needs child 26:1430
- Koral, Saydie, experience as guardian of special needs children 26:1510
- Krogstad, Tia, experience as parent of special needs child and educational assistant 26:1345
- Pollard, Marcus, experience as parent of special needs child 26:1400-1405
- Psychologists
- Special needs children and youth
- Wicks, Adrianne, family's experience with special needs services 26:1110
- Zimmel, Nicole, experience as parent of special needs child 26:1445
Zimmel, Nicole
- Presentation to committee 26:1430-1445
- As subject
- Autism spectrum disorder, services and funding 26:1435-1445
- Mental health of children and youth, services for autistic youth 26:1435-1440
- Social workers, children-and-youth-with-special-needs social workers 26:1440
- Special needs children and youth, caregivers and issues 26:1445
- Victor School, catchment area 26:1445
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