Centacare replaced the Catholic Family Welfare Bureau in 1977. In 2013, it continued to assist families and to offer adoption services. It ran the Annie Kenney Young Women's Refuge. In 2015 Centacare Tasmania changed its name to CatholicCare Tasmania.
Part VI of the Adoption of Children Act 1988 made information on adoptions arranged by the Catholic Private Adoption Agency available to all parties connected with them.
In 2013, Centacare's adoption services include support to relinquishing parents, adoptive parents, and people who have been adopted. Through the Adoption Information Service, run by the Department of Health and Human Services, Centacare provided information and made links between relinquishing parents and adoptees.
1959 - 1977 Catholic Family Welfare Bureau
1977 - 2015 Centacare Tasmania
2015 - CatholicCare Tasmania
Sources used to compile this entry: Department of Social Welfare: report for the year ended 30 June 1970, Department of Social Welfare, Hobart, 1970; 'A Piece of the Story': National Directory of Records of Catholic Organisations Caring for Children Separated from Families, Australian Catholic Social Welfare Commission & Australian Conference of Leaders of Religious Institutes, 1999, https://cssa.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/A-Piece-of-the-Story.pdf. p.95..
Prepared by: Caroline Evans
Created: 12 January 2011, Last modified: 6 May 2022
Last updated: 4 August 2023
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