List is of South Australian organisations providing support to people with disability
This list is of organisations in South Australian providing support mainly to people with developmental disability and acquired disability, rather than disabilities arising from mental disorder.
Support for children
Ted Mullighan, in his Commission of Inquiry into the State Care of Children noted that children with disabilities were GeneRally supported by non-government agencies, the Government of South Australia facilitated residential and associated care by non-government agencies contributing funds and subsidies. However children and adolescents with disabilities were also placed and restrained of children in adult mental hospitals from the mid 19th century to the mid 20th century. The State opened Lochiel Park Boys Training Centre in 1958 and the Strathmont Centre in 1971.
List of organisations
Name |
Precursor |
Originally |
Commenced |
Population focus |
Regional focus |
Started |
Service focus |
Notes |
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Barkuma |
Orana Inc |
Central Districts Mentally Handicapped Children's Association |
People with intellectual disability |
At start: Elizabeth area |
1964 |
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Bedford Phoenix Incorporated |
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CanDo Group Charities: |
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South Australian Institution for the Blind, Deaf and Dumb (later Townsend House) |
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Royal South Australian Deaf Society |
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Department for Department for Communities and Social Inclusion Disabilty SA Earlier:
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Novita Children's Services |
Crippled Children's Committee (unincorporated) |
Crippled Children's Association of South Australia |
Children with disability and their families |
Statewide |
1939 |
Stopped providing institutional care in 1993 |
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Heritage Industries |
merged with Bedford Industries in 2010 (Mount Gambier) |
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Minda Inc |
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Orana Incorporated |
Mentally [...] Children's Society |
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Phoenix Society |
2014 merged with Bedford Industries |
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Royal Society for the Blind |
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scosa (Spastic Centres of South Australia Inc.) |
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