In 1919, child welfare advocates recognized that providing preventative services to young offenders through the juvenile court system would likely lower the crime rate.
It names one segment of a larger period in Aboriginal child welfare history where, because questionable apprehensions and adoptions gured prominently, a label was applied.
It offers a wide range of general practitioner and specialist services, including nursing and child welfare, immunization and vaccination, school health, dental and physiotherapy services.