Special Needs Care and Training System for the Children in their preschool years with Developmental Disabilities : Support System and Roles of "Frontline" in the Province of British Columbia

The significant role of child nurses and public health nurses as frontline is to offer professional viewpoints in daily activities of children and their families. The people called frontline open the door to comprehensive assistance for the lives of children and their families. Once they identify the children with developmental disabilities, they can lead the children and their families to appropriate health care, medical care and welfare, give special needs care and training in the fields of child-care and education, and furthermore offer practical individualized support. The roles of such frontline professionals have become even more effective under the amplification of supporting system, which became available thanks to the provincial financial protection for children with developmental disabilities established in 2002. The frontline professionals sometimes remind the difficulties which children and their parents are not aware of. The financial protection secured by the provincial government will help the child\u27s prosperous growth, as the frontline\u27s identification of disability does not only result in labeling and anxiety of parents but links them with support for self-fulfillment of children in their communities for years to come. In the province of B.C., the qualities of social resources have allowed a macro system such as Crown Agency to become functional and micro level systems to link with the macro system. The administrative agency becomes more active when it is operating with much faith in the connection with companies, NPOs, volunteer groups, professionals and associations of families, in addition to the connections among operating agencies. The frontline-system seems to be a micro system itself. And a self-help group has established an NPO as a result of their activities; naturally, the members of the NPO are family members of children with disabilities. Therefore, the activities of such NPOs can be the sources of comprehension of children with disabilities and their families and provide requisite social resources effectively. The support system for children with developmental disabilities in the province of B.C. focuses on the difficulties of children and their families, based on the principle of human rights, and seek to reduce and solve the difficulties by early identification and comprehensive support. In order to bring this support system to fruition, it is urgently necessary for people on the frontline and professionals providing guidance and training to fully acquire the professional knowledge and techniques in each field