The Christian Brethren first came to Tasmania in 1869. They are an evangelical Protestant church with no ordained ministers and a strong lay involvement in their activities. The Brethren ran Glenhaven Children’s Home in Ulverstone and Hillcrest Children’s Home in Hobart. By the end of the 1870s the Christian Brethren were well established in most…
St Michael’s Priory, in Rokeby, became an approved children’s home in 1974. It accommodated children temporarily as part of a wider counselling and welfare service to the community of Rokeby. The Priory closed in 1977. The monastic community that became St Michael’s Priory began in a large house in Seymour Street, New Town, in about…
Uniting Care Tasmania, which formed in 2008, is an agency of the Victorian and Tasmanian Synod of the Uniting Church. It provides services to families and communities as well as acting as an advocate for social justice. In 2013, the Hobart Benevolent Society, which assists people in poverty, and Cerebral Palsy Tasmania are a part…
Hagley State School, which was half a mile from the centre of Hagley in northern Tasmania, opened in 1855. In 1936, it was the site of Hagley Area School, which, shortly after that became Hagley Farm School. Sir Richard Dry, a Premier of Tasmania who owned the nearby Quamby Estate, donated the land for the…
The Mental Diseases Hospital, New Norfolk replaced the Hospital for the Insane in 1915. It remained on the same grounds. The Mental Diseases Hospital housed children. In 1937, it became Lachlan Park Hospital. Between 1915 and 1920, the Mental Diseases Hospital Department ran the Mental Diseases Hospital. In 1920, the Public Health Department took it…
The Children’s Psychiatric Service Launceston, run by the Mental Health Services Commission, opened in about 1971. It had a multidisciplinary team that used a community and family orientated approach to working with children. The Service, which became the Wellington Street Clinic, appears to have closed or been replaced in the late 1980s or early 1990s….
The Department of Health Services replaced the Public Health Department in 1956. The Department was responsible for public health, including, at first, mental health. In 1989, the Department of Health Services became the Department of Health. Initially the Department of Health Services ran mental services, including Lachlan Park and Millbrook Rise Psychopathic Hospitals. In 1968,…
The Division of Psychiatric Services, a part of the Health Services Department, formerly the Public Health Department, replaced the Division of Mental Health in 1963. It was responsible for the Guardianship Board and Lachlan Park and Millbrook Rise Psychopathic Hospitals as well as other mental health services. In 1968, the Mental Health Services Commission replaced…
The Division of Mental Health, a part of the Health Services Department, formerly the Public Health Department, replaced the Division of Mental Hygiene in 1956. It was responsible for the Mental Deficiency Board as well as Lachlan Park and Millbrook Rise Psychopathic Hospitals. In 1963, the Division of Psychiatric Services replaced it.
The Division of Mental Hygiene was established in 1945 as part of a restructure of the Public Health Department. It had responsibility for the Mental Deficiency Board as well as Lachlan Park and Millbrook Rise Psychopathic Hospitals.
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