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…
The Sunshine Association formed in 1937 to raise funds to provide holidays for children from poor or isolated homes. In 1951, the Association opened the Sunshine Home which closed in 1980. In 2012, the Association provides funds for holiday camps and sports activities as well as educational and medical expenses for children in poverty or…
The Women’s Health Association formed out of the Women’s Sanitary Association in 1901. They visited working-class women to teach them about sanitation and campaigned for better conditions for factory workers, better housing for the poor, and the health of children. After 1901, the influence of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union on child welfare policy seems…
The Women’s Sanitary Association was formed in 1891 to assist the Sanitary and General Improvement Association. Members of the Association visited working-class streets and advised the women living there on hygiene and the methods of nursing infectious diseases. In 1901, the Women’s Sanitary Association became the Women’s Health Association.
The Children’s Protection Society was formed in 1903 by members of the Women’s Health Association in order to campaign for better care of babies born to single mothers. The members of the Society went on to take up other campaigns which they believed would benefit children. The formation of the Children’s Protection Society was a…
The Residential Child Care Association of Tasmania was formed for the Managers of approved children’s homes. Section 10 of the 1960 Child Welfare Act provided for the approval of children’s Homes run by voluntary organisations.
The Hobart Benevolent Society was originally formed in 1832 but has run continuously since 1859. It was, and remains, a Protestant organisation that assisted people in poverty. Between 1880 and 1881, it managed the boarding out system. In 2014, it is managed by Uniting Care. The Hobart Benevolent Society based its approach to charity on…
The Hobart City Mission was founded in 1852. Its brief was to spread the gospel to non-church goers in inner city working class communities. The Hobart City Mission is still active. Like the London City Mission, Hobart City Missioners were Protestant but non-denominational. They saw working class communities as a mission field because they seemed…
ICRA House, also known as Naldera Cottage, opened as a Hostel for refugee children under the Unaccompanied Refugee Youth Programme in 1979. The former Naldera Family Home in Glandore was leased by the government to the Indo-Chinese Refugee Association for the purpose. The Home provided accommodation for 5 Vietnamese children who had come to Australia…
The Indo-Chinese Refugee Association was established in 1975 by a group of people concerned at the plight of refugees arriving in Australia from Vietnam. They aimed to establish a compassionate community response to ensuring the welfare of refugees, and practical measures to assist them to settle into their new community. The Indochinese Refugee Association changed…
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