Special Education Services: A Manual of Policies, Procedures and Guidelines

F.2 Eligibility for PRP Status

Educational programs that may be eligible for designation as a Provincial Resource Program are:

Youth Custody Centres and Residential Attendance Centre Programs operated or contracted by other ministries which provide educational programs for youth 19 years of age or younger, and which have been established in accordance with the current protocol agreements signed between the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Children and Family Development.

Residential Programs for the treatment and/or rehabilitation of children and youth of school age which include an educational program and which have been established with the mutual agreement of the social service ministries and the Ministry of Education in accordance with current protocol agreements.

Educational Programs located in hospitals where the majority of students are not ordinarily resident in the school district in which the hospital is located and where the program has been established in accordance with current protocol agreements.

Special Education Technology Centres designated by the minister for the purpose of providing support services to school districts to assist them in meeting the needs of students who are technology dependent, have physical disabilities or are visually impaired.

Unique programs designated by the minister for exceptionally low-incidence or other targeted populations, when it has been demonstrated that the number of such students is so low and the nature of the special needs so severe as to preclude the operation of a suitable program in most school districts. The majority of students in such programs may not be residents of the host district.

School districts may apply to the minister to have a program designated as a PRP if it meets any of the above criteria and the majority of students in the program would not normally be residents of the district.

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