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Organisation MacKillop Family Services (1997 - )
- From
- 1997
- Categories
- Care Provider, Catholic and Community Service Organisation
- Website
- http://www.mackillop.org.au/
Summary
MacKillop Family Services was established in 1997 to continue the services (foster care, residential care and specialised home-based care services) to children, young people and families previously undertaken by the Sisters of Mercy, the Christian Brothers, and the Sisters of St Joseph.
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Timeline
c. 1855 - 1939 St Augustine's Boys' Orphanage
1862 - 1912 Our Lady's Orphanage
1861 - 1962 St Vincent de Paul's Girls' Orphanage
1901 - 1975 St Joseph's Foundling Hospital
1912 - 1960 St Catherine's Orphanage
c. 1921 - 1943 St Anthony's Children's Home
1939 - 1966 St Augustine's Orphanage
1855 - 1967 St Vincent de Paul Orphanage
1902 - 1985 St Joseph's Receiving Home
1943 - 1976 St Anthony's Home
1960 - 1975 St Catherine's Children's Home
1962 - 1992 St Vincent de Paul Children's Home
1966 - 1988 St Augustine's Boys' Home
1975 - 1985 St Joseph's Babies' Home
1967 - 1997? St Vincent de Paul's Boys' Home
c. 1975 - 1997 Mercy Family Care Centre
1976 - 1997 St Anthony's Family Service
1985 - 1997 St Joseph's Babies' and Family Service
1988 - 1997 St Augustine's Adolescent and Family Services
1992 - 1997 St Vincent de Paul Child and Family Services
1995 - 1997 Christian Brothers' Child Youth and Family Services
1997 - MacKillop Family Services
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Publications
Books
- Barnard, Jill; Twigg, Karen, Holding on to Hope: a history of the founding agencies of MacKillop Family Services 1854-1997, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, 2004. Details
Online Resources
- Barnard, Jill, '"A Secure Safeguard of the Children's Morals": Catholic Child Welfare in Nineteenth-Century Victoria', Provenance, no. 4, September 2005, http://prov.vic.gov.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/ProvenanceIssue4.pdf. Details
- Gough, Deborah, Hidden orphanage lives, The Age, 2004, http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/19/1097951696248.html. Details
- Twigg, Karen, 'St Vincent de Paul Orphanage', in eMelbourne: the city past and present, Encyclopedia of Melbourne online, The University of Melbourne, 2008, http://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM01317b.htm. Details
Gallery
- Title
- 150 years of children in care in Victoria, 150 years of MacKillop Family Services
- Type
- Document
- Date
- c. 2006
Prepared by: Cate O'Neill
Created: 30 January 2009, Last modified: 14 March 2013
Last updated: 2 May 2013
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