Woorinyan Incorporated is a not-for-profit charitable organisation, providing day training support services and employment support services to approximately 173 persons with disabilities. Established in 1953, Woorinyan's purpose is to facilitate individualised, high quality, innovative and effective services to meet the employment, development, training and support needs of people with a disability or disabilities.
In 1953 Woorinyan, then named (Peninsula Retarded Citizen's Welfare Association), was established as a minding centre by a group of parents with children who had disabilities. There are several service users still attending the service who commenced placement here in the first five years of operation.
In 1990 the Department of Human Services adopted the Adult Training and Support Services as an appropriate model for persons with a disability.
Woorinyan has progressed from functioning as a minding centre, to a special development school, to an Adult Training and Support Service and now Day Services as well as an Employment Support Service for people with a disability.
The agency remains on the sites of 32 Cranbourne Road, Frankston (recently re-developed) and 13 Joy Street, Frankston and is one of the oldest Disability Services in the Southern Region.
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