The Bevis Marks Independent Living Unit, run by the government, opened in South Hobart in 1988. It was for teenage boys. The Unit closed around 1995.
An independent living unit provided support for young people to prepare them for leaving out of home care and taught adolescent state wards life skills through a residential course.
Bevis Marks was a pilot project run by the Department for Community Welfare's Southern Regional Resource Centre for teenage boys it described as 'disturbed'.
According to the 1987 Annual Report of the Department for Community Welfare the Unit was:
a residential facility for teenage males characterised as verging upon individual independence and for whom other residential options are inappropriate.
Sources used to compile this entry: Department for Community Welfare, Department for Community Welfare, Hobart, 30 June 1987, 67 pp; Department for Community Welfare: annual report for the year ended 30 June 1988, Department for Community Welfare, Hobart, 1988.
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Created: 27 August 2012, Last modified: 13 February 2019
Last updated: 4 August 2023
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