{"id":19533,"date":"2019-02-26T07:49:31","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T12:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=19533"},"modified":"2019-02-26T06:43:42","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T11:43:42","slug":"mantha-ford-conservatives-forsaking-northern-children-with-autism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/26\/mantha-ford-conservatives-forsaking-northern-children-with-autism\/","title":{"rendered":"Mantha – Ford Conservatives forsaking northern children with autism"},"content":{"rendered":"

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During question period on Monday, NDP MPP Michael Mantha called on Doug Ford to stop his cuts to autism services that is leaving northern children with autism without the care they need, and making things worse for families in small communities. Mantha, the MPP for Algoma-Manitoulin, shared the story of one northern family with the legislature. (link to video<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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\u201cMarshall, a little 4-year-old boy from Manitouwadge was diagnosed a year ago with severe Autism Spectrum Disorder,\u201d Mantha said. \u201cHis mom, Adrianna, is a single mom who is trained to work in the health care sector.\u00a0 Unfortunately, she had to quit her job to take care of Marshall full-time. \u201cAdrianna can’t work or find a rental unit that is affordable enough to allow her to pay for her son\u2019s therapy.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhy is this premier leaving people like Marshall and Adrianna with no options left?\u201d Mantha told Doug Ford and the legislature that Marshall and Adrianna patiently waited for the Ontario Autism Program funding but received nothing.\u00a0 When Adrianna asked why, she was told that \u201cthere is none available for your region. Too often, communities like Manitouwadge are forgotten by the provincial government, and end up lacking in services. The two biggest cities around are Sault Ste. Marie and Thunder Bay, both 400 kilometers away.\u00a0 There isn\u2019t even one local private behavioural service provider,\u201d said Mantha.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis government\u2019s announcement will do nothing to change that.\u00a0\u00a0 In fact, it will make things worse. \u201cWhy is this government refusing to increase capacity in Northern Ontario for autism services while cutting the funding available to families like Adrianna\u2019s?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  During question period on Monday, NDP MPP Michael Mantha called on Doug Ford to stop his cuts to autism services that is leaving northern children with autism without the care they need, and making things worse for families in small communities. Mantha, the MPP for Algoma-Manitoulin, shared the story of one northern family with …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-provincial"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-20 11:14:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19535,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19533\/revisions\/19535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}