History of the instutions for the disabled in Austalia. A general overview Part one
History of institutions for the disabled, in Australia. A general overview.
So I have done a broad outline of what is the history of institutions
for the disabled in Australia we don’t have a lot of broad information about
disability and how it was thought about because Australia generally does follow
the trends of London up until the 1900s and we started following the USA in a
lot of things.
However we see that one thing that has always been the same
is how we cared for our disabled people, so we see that they generally were
depending on the means that people had they lived with their families. Or if they couldn’t they were taken to children’s
homes and some still exist in some form however we see family-based care is
much more prevalent, now as well. As
well as what is called supported independent living.
If they didn’t they lived in an institution, so in Toowoomba,
we had hameworth children at home and we
had Bailey Henderson insane facility. [i]
[ii]
Baily Henderson was a
facility that was very much ahead of its time and that we see had a great outcome
in that they approached mental health and disability very differently. They
approached from an approach they called at the time the spiritual deficit and
they gave them something to do with their time and it was a self-sustaining
facility, yes people would live out their lives there, and then when deinstitutionalization
came in people were released.
However, we see that this was one of a few facilities that
helped in this way most of the time they were trying to “fix,” the disability
so that the person could live a normal life in a way that is meaningful for
them.
We see that they can understand what is happening and as we
are starting to see people don’t want to be ‘fixed,’ they want to be accepted
into the community and this is the issue, how do we integrate people with a
disability into the community. What needs to change in some cases I do find
myself agreeing with the fact that they need to be able to have institutions
for people with complex needs to go.
But not institutions where people are housed away from the
people who care about them but things like day centers, which are skills-based
and not babysitting facilities, so facilities that have things to do and people
to talk to.
To have ADE assisted disability enterprises things like a
sheltered workshop, so things like a farm, packing facilities, I know of
several in Toowoomba as well, so the vanguard laundry, the Endeavor workshop,
and a social enterprise called, emerge, this is a place that works with vulnerable
youth.
An ADE is an Assisted disability enterprise so a facility
that is purpose-built for people with a disability to go and work, they are different
from social enterprises in the way that social enterprises are designed for vulnerable
people or to give people a second chance in the workforce.
This is what we are
seeing, in emerge and second shots. Emerge is run for at-risk youth, and the second
shot is run by the base services Toowoomba a wrap-around service for homeless
people or people at risk of homelessness.
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