Founded 1939 Area served South Australia | Type Incorporated | |
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Predecessor Crippled Children's Association of South Australia, Inc Headquarters 171 Days Road, Regency Park, South Australia 5010 Location Children’s Services: Regency Park, Parafield Gardens, St Marys and Elizabeth, Whyalla; with services also provided throughout regional South Australia plus Broken Hill, New South Wales. | ||
Novita Children's Services is a South Australian organisation providing support to children with disabilities and their families.
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History
The Crippled Children's Association of South Australia (CCA) origins lay in the Crippled Children's Committee formed in 1932, an inaugural meeting of the CCA was held the on 13 December 1938 and it was incorporated in 1939. The name was changed to Novita Children's Services in 2004.
It originally focused on supporting children with poliomyelitis, expanding to support those with cerebral palsy by 1944, and now works with children with a broad range of needs. With the current emphasis on community based care and deinstitutionalisation, Novita Children's Services stopped providing institutional care at Regency Park in 1993, working with children and families in locally based centres and in community settings. It also provides support under the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).
Initially relying on public and South Australian Government support the CCA ran the Somerton Crippled Children's Home from 1939, and the Ashford House School, both to 1976. Both accommodation services and the school then moved Regency Park Centre for the Young Disabled.