The Cerebral Palsy Association of Tasmania replaced the Tasmanian Spastics Association in October 1996. It provided provide support and assistance to people who were affected by cerebral palsy. In December 2000, it became Cerebral Palsy Tasmania.
The Spastic Children Treatment Fund Committee was established on 17 September 1963 by the parents and friends of some children with cerebral palsy, then known as spasticity. Its purpose was to organise and fund treatment for the children. In 1970, the Committee became the Tasmanian Spastics Association.
The Tasmanian Spastics Association replaced the Spastic Children Treatment Fund Committee in October 1970. Its purpose was to organise and fund treatment for children with cerebral palsy, then known as spasticity. In 1978, it founded Rosebank Cottage for Disabled Children. The Tasmanian Spastics Association became the Cerebral Palsy Association of Tasmania in October 1996. The…
The Mental Health Association was established in 1945. It may have established Talire School.
Veranto Lifestyle Assistance replaced Oakdale Services Tasmania in 2011. They run services for people living at home in the Hobart area. They also run Oakdale Lodge, a home for adults with disabilities. In 2015 Veranto Lifestyle Assistance merged with Liviende to become Liviende Verant. In 2016-17 the organisation was rebranded as Li-Ve. In 2023 Li-Ve…
Oakdale Services Tasmania replaced the Retarded Citizens Welfare Association in 1992.
The Retarded Citizens Welfare Association (RCWA) was originally the Retarded Children’s Welfare Association. When the children that the original Association had supported began to grow up, members realised that services would need to be developed for their adulthood. To meet these needs, they modified the objectives of the RCWA and changed its name. In 1992,…
The Retarded Children’s Welfare Association (RCWA) was established in Hobart in 1952 to raise funds for better premises for Talire, a volunteer run school for children with intellectual disabilities. The Association also aimed to set up more schools for children with intellectual disabilities and hostels to enable country children to attend them. The RCWA became…
Tasmanian Archives, previously the Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office (TAHO), and the Archives Office of Tasmania, was created in 2011 following amalgamation with the Heritage Collections at the State Library of Tasmania. Tasmanian Archives operates under the Archives Act 1983. Its collection includes the records of all government departments and agencies involved in the welfare…
Abermere Receiving Home, run by the government, opened in Mount Stuart in 1975. It provided temporary accommodation to children who were wards of state or supervised in other ways by the Social Welfare Department. In the early 1980s, Abermere Receiving Home became Abermere Family Group Home. A married woman, known as a Receiving Home Keeper,…
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