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Salvation Army
The Salvation Army is a Protestant Church with a strong philanthropic mission which led it to become highly involved with child welfare in many parts of Australia.
Algate House (1968 - 1996)
Arncliffe Girls' Home (1941 - 1969)
Bathurst Maternity and Rescue Home (1890s - 1919)
Bethesda Maternity Hospital (1956 - 1973)
Bexley Boys' Home (1915 - 1982)
Burwood Maternity Home (1898 - )
Canowindra Girls' Home (1942 - 1977)
Dee Why Home for Boys (? - 1936)
Dulwich Hill Family Group Home (1989 - 1995)
Earlwood Family Group Home (1989 - 1995)
'The Fold' Girls' Home (1920 - 1942)
Foster Care Program (Salvation Army) (c. 1984 - c. 1994)
Gill Memorial Boys' Home (1936 - 1980)
Gill Memorial Family Group Home (1980 - 1995)
Hillcrest Mothers' Hospital (1933 - 1977)
Hopeleigh Maternity Home (c. 1910 - 1956)
Manly Boys' Probationary Home (1903 - ?)
Marrickville Children's Residence (1979 - 1985?)
Maryville Mothers' Hospital (1924 - 1933)
Narwee Family Group Home (1987 - 1996)
Newcastle Maternity and Rescue Home (1897 - 1924)
Newtown Maternity and Rescue Home (1892 - 1898)
Paradise Boys' Industrial Colony (1897 - 1903)
Stanmore Children's Home (1927 - 1987)
Stanmore Rescue Home (1896 - ?)
School
An institution (residential or non-residential) designed to provide general education, or training in a specialised area.
Anglewood (1943 - 1994)
Dunmore House (1936 - ?)
Guildford Truant School for Boys (1917 - 1939)
Kendall Grange (1948 - )
Manly Industrial School and Orphanage (1881 - 1910)
Masonic Orphan Schools (1922 - c. 1924)
Mater Dei School (1957 - )
Roman Catholic Orphan School (1844 - 1886)
St Carthage's College for Young Ladies (1907 - 1931)
St Edmund's School (1951 - )
Training School for Midwifery Nurses (c. 1911 - 1976)
William Thompson Masonic School (c. 1924 - 1972)
Staff Member
A person employed by an organisation.
Brain, John, Staff Member
Kennett, Bert, Staff Member
Locke, John, Staff Member
Moore, Reverend, Staff Member
Phillips, Frank, Staff Member
Phillips, Margaret, Staff Member
Wenham, Jim, Staff Member
Stolen Generations
A term used to refer to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children separated from their families and communities, especially those separated under the guise of assimilation, and particularly during the period 1910 to 1970.
Aboriginal Boys' Training Home, Kinchela, case papers (1944 - 1967), Aborigines Welfare Board
Aboriginal Child, Family and Community Care State Secretariat (NSW) Inc
Aboriginal School (1915 - 1972)
Aborigines Protection Association (1881 - c. 1897)
Aborigines Welfare Board (1940 - 1969)
Applications for certificates of exemption (1948 - 1959), Aborigines Welfare Board
Australian Aborigines Progressive Association (1925 - 1927)
Bomaderry Aboriginal Children's Home (1908 - ?)
Certificates of Exemption (1949 - 1954), Aborigines Welfare Board
Church Missionary Society of Australia (1916 - )
Cootamundra Training Home (1911 - 1969)
Correspondence files (1949 - 1969), Aborigines Welfare Board
Cowra ACS [Aboriginal Children's Service] (1975 - 2008?)
Crusaders Camp Mission Hostel (1940? - 1946?)
Department of Aboriginal Affairs (1997 - )
George Brown College (1942? - 1946?)
Great Lakes/Manning ACS [Aboriginal Children's Service] (1975 - )
Histories of girls and boys unattached and for whom forms have not been prepared (c. 1930 - c. 1938), Aborigines Welfare Board
Hunter ACS [Aboriginal Children's Service] (1984 - )
Indexes to minute books (1946 - 1969), Aborigines Welfare Board
Kinchela Training Home for Aboriginal Boys (1923 - 1970)
Koolyangarra Fostering Agency (Nowra) (1980? - 2008)
Ledgers (trust account) (1897 - 1922), Aborigines Welfare Board
Link-Up New South Wales Aboriginal Corporation (c. 1980 - )
Minute Books (1890 - 1969), Aborigines Welfare Board
National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families (1995 - 1997)
New South Wales Aboriginal Children's Services (1975 - )
Nunya Foster Care (1988 - )
Photographs (c. 1924 - 1961), Aborigines Welfare Board
Redfern Aboriginal Children's Service (1975 - )
Salary registers (trust account) (1922 - 1934), Aborigines Welfare Board
Special Bundles (1920 - 1957), Aborigines Welfare Board
St Marys ACS [Aboriginal Children's Service] (1975 - )
United Aborigines Mission (1894 - )
Wagga Wagga ACS [Aboriginal Children's Service] (1975 - )
Support Service
Support Services are groups who provide services to assist people who, as children, experienced time separated from their families through being placed in out-of-home 'care'. Some of these organisations also provide support services to other family members who have been affected.
Broken Rites (1992 - )
Care Leavers Australia Network (2000 - )
Child Migrants Trust (1987 - )
Link-Up New South Wales Aboriginal Corporation (c. 1980 - )
Now-Remembered Australians Inc (2009 - ), NRA