Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her)

Heartwarming scene:

Black Cyber Truck driving past local school, at the end of recess.

A large amount of children run for the school’s fence, yelling “boo” and giving the thumbs down gesture.

🥰

All of the newbies are up in arms about yesterday's time change announcement - and it's funny, because this is just literally the party's M.O.

. @davidebybc.bsky.social's @bcndpcaucus.bsky.social has never met a piece of evidence or science they didn't like to ignore, hey?

COVID is Airborne; masks, clean air work✅
Safe Supply works✅
Decriminalization works✅
Early Intervention (Autism) works✅
Standard Time is the better option (not DST)✅

This sounds familiar coughCBC+VCHcough.

Screencap of a Facebook post, light grey text on darker grey background, reads: Please consider signing this petition. Their goal is to get to 20K, and they are just over halfway there. We have already seen that the type of system BC is proposing didn't work in Ontario, and many disabled kids there have fallen through the cracks (search the hashtag #50KIsNotOk). There's no reason to expect that it will work here, either, especially given that many of the promises the BC NDP are making in terms of increasing "community based" (aka watered down HUBs) supports are promises they've made since 2017, and failed to deliver. If they've failed to increase these promised and much-needed supports in eight years, how will they now do so in three? (To say nothing of the bottleneck they will create in removing current supports within a year, but not even trying to have their new system up and fully running for three - thousands of kids are going from supported to unsupported in a year, but the government is already telling us, before the change is in place, that lack of staffing is a problem.) Don't fall for government doublespeak. Fight for ALL disabled kids to be supported, not for some kids to be told that they aren't disabled enough, and have their vital supports removed.

Please consider signing this petition.

#BCPoli #BCEd
actionnetwork.org/petitions/pe...

February is Inclusive Education Month.

Seems like a good time to remind parents that:

Integration does NOT equal Inclusion/Inclusive Education.

Inclusive Education means disabled students having access to ALL of their needed educational supports, in order to succeed in their goals.

#BCEd #BCPoli

TikTok video pertaining to this important study, and highlighting why cutting supports to certain disabled kids in BC right now is so underhanded.

#BCPoli #Disability #Exclusion #GreenScreen 👇🏻

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Screencap of tweet from David Lingenfelter, PhD, white text on black background, reads: Children with in-utero COVID-19 exposure showed altered brain structures at birth and lower cognitive/social scores by age two, with 52% high-risk for developmental delays. This study links these brain changes to anxiety-like behaviors.🧵 Tweet contains screenshots of linked study, incl some of following: The study…compared 39 mother-baby pairs exposed to COVID-19 during pregnancy w 103 pre-pandemic "normative" pairs. Key Findings • Altered Brain Structure: Newborns exposed to COVID-19 in utero showed significant differences in regional brain volumes. Specifically, they had: • Increased volumes in cortical gray matter and the left hippocampus. • Decreased volumes in subcortical gray matter and white matter. • Cognitive & Social Delays: By age two, toddlers in the COVID-exposed group scored significantly lower on cognitive and social-emotional assessments… • In the study cohort, roughly 52% of exposed toddlers were flagged as high-risk for developmental delays • Internalizing Behaviors: Exposed toddlers showed higher scores in "internalizing" behaviors, which include early symptoms of anxiety and depression. • The "Mediation" Link: The researchers found a statistical link suggesting that the changes in cortical gray matter seen at birth partially explained the lower cognitive scores at age two. These lower cognitive scores, in tum, were linked to the increase in anxiety-like (internalizing) behaviors. Conclusion & Takeaways The authors conclude that while most children exposed to COVID-19 in utero will likely develop normally, there is a measurable risk for subtle neurodevelopmental changes. They emphasize: • Monitoring: The importance of consistent developmental screening for children born during the pandemic • Early Intervention: Earty identification of these subtle differences can heip parents and clinicians provide support (such as speech or occupational therapy) sooner.

Leaving this here for the people advocating for a reduction in supports for disabled kids in #BCPoli.

And yes, our politicians and public health reps are well aware of findings like this.

(What’s that about early intervention?)

H/t @dlingenfelter.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This is *exactly* like everyone saying:

“Welp! We all have to get COVID now, it’s endemic”, and

No? We eliminated a whole ass strain of influenza in 2020/21 - we absolutely do not need to live with endless infections.

But, complying in advance, so people can fly and eat in restaurants, won out. 🤷‍♀️

February is Inclusive Education Month.

Seems like a good time to remind parents that:

Integration does NOT equal Inclusion/Inclusive Education.

Inclusive Education means disabled students having access to ALL of their needed educational supports, in order to succeed in their goals.

#BCEd #BCPoli

Me, too. 🤞

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It's not pronounced "Lilly-Hammer"

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Thank you! ❤️

Boosting an incredibly import BC petition.

#CdnPoli

Screencap of a Facebook post, light grey text on darker grey background, reads: Please consider signing this petition. Their goal is to get to 20K, and they are just over halfway there. We have already seen that the type of system BC is proposing didn't work in Ontario, and many disabled kids there have fallen through the cracks (search the hashtag #50KIsNotOk). There's no reason to expect that it will work here, either, especially given that many of the promises the BC NDP are making in terms of increasing "community based" (aka watered down HUBs) supports are promises they've made since 2017, and failed to deliver. If they've failed to increase these promised and much-needed supports in eight years, how will they now do so in three? (To say nothing of the bottleneck they will create in removing current supports within a year, but not even trying to have their new system up and fully running for three - thousands of kids are going from supported to unsupported in a year, but the government is already telling us, before the change is in place, that lack of staffing is a problem.) Don't fall for government doublespeak. Fight for ALL disabled kids to be supported, not for some kids to be told that they aren't disabled enough, and have their vital supports removed.

Please consider signing this petition.

#BCPoli #BCEd
actionnetwork.org/petitions/pe...

Screencap of a tweet from me, @jaclynmacrae, white text on black background, reads: Jaclyn "Cool Gamer Mom™️" Ferreira - 😷 (she/her) @jaclynmacrae BRB. Just going to tell parents of kids with Leukaemia that their kids got the 'magic diagnosis', because brain tumours are worse. #BCPoli 5:02 PM Feb 20, 2026

Abled parents of disabled kids:

Remember, often, you are "in community" with disabled parents of disabled kids, and the negative, ableist things you say about (your and other) disabled kids are also harmful to the disabled adults hearing them.

When @davidebybc.bsky.social et al talk about the ROI in supporting disabled kids (while removing support from others), do they think about the systemic negative ROI in terms of the health of parents who don't sleep anymore? Who can't relax b/c they always have to fight for their kids' existence?

I have the email address from the min (when it was Dix) - but it's specific to that office (as in, contains the title, not the name of the person) - do you have that one?

I always CC MLA's office, too, and surprisingly, last fall, I heard back! But I know it's not a given.
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everywhere, and no accountability to deal with it, and then actually move forward in a more equitable manner. AND follow through on election promises.

yesterday (in terms of area of waste), and the amount of money earmarked for disabled kids that the Vancouver SD got away with not spending, and moving into general spending accounts in 23/24 would have funded 466 additional Autistic kids under the current AFU model.

There is so much waste...

Yes. They exploit their base for votes (like, in 2017, when they promised they'd work to fix #BCEd, but they haven't; things continue to get worse). And too many supporters are afraid to call them out, because they're so hyper-focused on partisanship.

I was doing math...
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I can't relax about:

my kids being unable to access equitable education
my kids and their (lack of) disability supports
lack of access to safe, equitable healthcare
being exposed to a neverending pandemic
needing to constantly challenge gov't doublespeak, used to justify all of the above, and more

The BC NDP, self-styled as a progressive party for the people, would vocally stand in opposition to all of these harmful, regressive policies. Policies which they now champion under the guise of equity and justice and progress, but which continue to perpetuate and deepen systemic harm.

And so, too, would their supporter base.

The BC NDP, self-styled as a progressive party for the people, would vocally stand in opposition to all of these harmful, regressive policies. Policies which they now champion under the guise of equity and justice and progress, but which continue to perpetuate and deepen systemic harm.

Things under the BCLiberals were definitively not better.

Things under the BC Conservatives definitively wouldn't be better.

But there would be one massive difference, were either of those parties in power:

I can't relax about:

my kids being unable to access equitable education
my kids and their (lack of) disability supports
lack of access to safe, equitable healthcare
being exposed to a neverending pandemic
needing to constantly challenge gov't doublespeak, used to justify all of the above, and more

Things under the BCLiberals were definitively not better.

Things under the BC Conservatives also would not be better.

But, there is one massive difference when they are: