Having battled with an eating disorder, Renate Ward wanted to make sure her son Luka had a healthy relationship with food. She got that help from Families Tasmania, but others have the same chance, as the not-for-profit enters administration.
Families Tasmania, a not-for-profit that supports parents and children, has closed and been placed into administration.The administrator will meet with members on Monday about its plans to transfer programs to other organisations
"The most valuable takeaway for me that I use on a daily basis is what they call a division of responsibility, where it's my job to choose when he eats and what he eats and he decides whether he eats it and how much, and that just took a lot of stress out of all meal times for me," she said.) "This will help to ensure that the valuable services Families Tasmania has offered will continue to be accessible to the community we have served with dedication and care."Emma Rowell, who managed the organisation's Family Food Patch program, said the closure was "a complete shock out of the blue" for its volunteers and employees, who have been told they have been placed on indefinite leave.
"It goes against absolutely everything that this organisation stands for, for us to be treated like this and for the membership to be treated like this."Ms Rowell, who acted as the organisation's chief executive a year ago, said Families Tasmania's financial position was "good" as recently as a few months ago, with several thousand dollars in reserve.
It changed its name to the Child Health Association in 1956, before becoming known as Families Tasmania in 2021.
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