To help the mentally/physically disabled improve their vocational skills, the Social Welfares Bureau of Kaohsiung City Government began to prepare for the construction of the Vocational Training Center inSeptember 1984. In June 1986 the Center was completed.Officially incorporatedin February 1987, the Center began to recruit Students in July of the same year as the first of its kind in Taiwan specialized in providing vocational training for the handicapped.
In March 1998, in accordance with the Act to Protect the Handicapped theCenter was placed under the supervision of the labor administration and renamed Kaohsiung City Government Labor Bureau Bo-Ai Vocational Training Center.