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List of Categories

Family Group Home

Family group home is the name given to a model of 'care' where small groups of children are accommodated in buildings that approximate the size and form of a normal family home. They began to appear in as a form of ‘care’ in Australia from the late 1940s, following concerns about the lack of individual attention given to children in large-scale institutions.

Bridgewater Care and Assessment Centre (1969 - 1983)

Farm School

The farm school was a model of residential 'care' for children, based in a rural area, which trained children (typically boys) in agricultural duties. Farm schools usually comprised a number of cottages in which children lived with cottage parents.

Bindoon (1936 - 1966)

Fairbridge Farm School Pinjarra (1913 - 1981)

Hillston (1955 - 1984)

Kenwick Farm (1947 - 1961)

Millijiddie Station (1981 - )

Mogumber (1951 - 1974)

Padbury Boys' Farm School (1946 - 1955)

Redhill Reformatory School (1903 - 1922)

St Kevin's Industrial School (1897 - 1922)

Strelley Station (c. 1980 - )

Tardun Farm School (1928 - 1967)

Werribee Farm School (1929 - 1962)

Female Rescue Home

‘Female Rescue Homes’ began as institutions associated with female rescue movement which was based on Evangelical Christian principles, and aimed to reform 'fallen women' (women engaged in prostitution) through a combination of prayer and hard work. The operations of the female rescue homes in Australia were not limited to the rescue of fallen women. Increasingly, these homes catered to single mothers and their babies. Some female rescue homes specialised in women with particular difficulties, such as alcohol and drug dependency, or women released from prison. Despite the evolution of this type of institution from the 1850s, the term 'female rescue home' was still in common use in Victoria in the mid-twentieth century.

Alexandra Home for Women (1916 - 1956)

Boulder Rescue Home (1904 - 1914?)

Home of the Good Shepherd [for 'Destitute Women and Girls'] (1902 - 1979?)

House of Mercy (1891 - 1916)

South Perth Refuge (1983 - 1990?)

Young Women's Single Refuge (c. 1980 - 1991)

Foster Care

Foster care is a method of out-of-home ‘care’ provided to children and young people who are temporarily or permanently unable to live with their families of origin. Foster care places such children in private family homes.

Anglicare 'Emergency Foster Care Scheme' (1988 - 1992)

Anglicare 'Homesharers' (1982 - 1992)

Catherine McAuley Centre (1971 - 1997)

Children's Protection Society (1906 - 1994?)

Communicare (1977 - 1991)

Mercy Community Services (Inc) (1997 - 2002)

Mercy Community Services (Inc) (1997 - 2002)

Methodist Homes for Children (1922 - 1977)

Mofflyn Child and Family Care Services (1984 - 2006)

UnitingCare West (2006 - )

Wanslea (1943 - ?)

Yorganop (1986 - )