Woodford is the name of the original residential home for children with disability at 98 Woodville Road, Woodville, Cara’s former head office.

Woodford was purchased in 1951 for £7,500. The funds came from successful appeals and fundraising ventures, based on the story of a girl, 12, who watched her brothers and sisters play from her wheelchair. When the girl dropped her doll and leaned forward to reach it, she fell from her wheelchair, revealing legs in iron braces.

This unnamed girl’s story led to a major appeal, funding the purchase of Woodford.

On November 28, 1951, the Adelaide Press announced Woodford in an article headlined “School for Spastic Children”.

Woodford served as the first residential home for the South Australian Spastic Paralysis Welfare Association. In 1970, the building was knocked down and rebuilt as a state-of-the-art accessible building with occupational therapists, speech therapists, treatment rooms, space for parents and a training centre. The new building was decorated and furnished with a donation of more than $3,700 from the Auxiliary.

The building then served as the head offices for Cara, SCOSA, Community Support Inc, the State Government’s Western Psychosocial Services, Job Prospects, Campbell Page, Woodville Medical Practice and an accessible, rehabilitative swimming pool and the James A. Nelson Hall, until September 2018 when the property was sold and Cara and SCOSA relocated their Head Offices.