Here's a "heads up" for you.
I'm the mother of a 4 1/2 year old boy in the autism spectrum. We live on Vancouver Island and have been receiving Kindergarten Transition Year (now "School Transition Year") funding since October 1st. We've been told all along that any unused funds could be carried over to the next fiscal year (beginning April 1/02). Apparently the government has changed its mind and now any unused funds at March 31st will be lost.
We had been trying to pace the spending of the funds so we'd have some to carry over (since the same $$$ is for 12 months as opposed to 6 this year). Now we're scrambling to figure out how to not lose almost $4,000 at the end of this month. We're looking into pre-billing some items for next year.
Be warned…
Claire Spencer (Trevor's mother)
