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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.
Alinjarra Cottage (1986 - 1991)
Boulder Rescue Home (1904 - 1914?)
Collie Boys' Home (1901 - c. 1920)
Cottesloe House (1975? - 1988)
Crossroads west [Salvation Army] (1989 - )
Hillcrest Maternity Home (1903 - 1974)
Hollywood Children's Village [Salvation Army] (1969 - 1991)
Kalgoorlie Boulder Youth Accommodation Service (1999 - )
Landsdale House (c. 1995 - )
Oasis House (1987 - )
Salvation Army
Salvation Army Boys' Home (1918 - 1969)
Salvation Army Girls' Home (1918 - 1969)
Salvation Army Girls' Home, Kalgoorlie (1904? - 1924?)
Salvation Army Industrial School for Boys [Collie] (1901 - 1920)
Salvation Army Industrial School for Girls [Collie] (1901 - 1920)
Seaforth Salvation Army Boys' Homes, Gosnells (General, Industrial and "Backward" Sections) (1901 - 1955?)
Seaforth Salvation Army Boys' Reformatory (1920 - 1955)
Seaforth Salvation Army Girls' Home (c. 1921 - 1942)
Seaforth Toddlers' Home (1946)
Withnell House (1953? - )
School
An institution (residential or non-residential) designed to provide general education or training in a specialised area.
Albany Residential College
Annesfield [Albany Native School] (1852 - 1871?)
Broome Residential College
Chidley Educational Centre (1976 - 1998)
Cistercian Order of the Strict Observance (Trappists) (1895 - ?)
Esperance Residential College (1968 - )
Fremantle Native School (1842 - 1851)
Geraldton Residential College
Gnowangerup Agricultural College (1979 - 2004?)
Kalumburu (1931 - 1982)
Koorana (1974 - c. 1986)
Merredin Residential College
Mogumber (1951 - 1974)
Narrogin Residential College
Nulungu (1971 - c. 1994)
Orfelin Ecole (Orphan School), Broome (1895? - 1898?)
Perth Native School (1840 - 1845)
St James Residential College, Moora
St Joseph's School for Aboriginal Girls, New Norcia (1861 - )
St Mary's Mission, New Norcia (1848 - 1974)
Sunday Island Mission School (1899 - )
Swan Homes (1943 - 1959)
Swan Native and Half Caste Mission (c. 1880 - 1920)
WA School for Deaf Children (1935? - 2001)
Seventh-day Adventist Church
Person or organisation belonging to the Seventh Day Adventist faith which is a Christian denomination.
Karalundi Mission (1954 - 1974)
Wiluna Mission (? - c. 1975)
Social Movement
A philosophy or collection of ideas around which activists organise themselves.
Ugly Men's Voluntary Worker's Association Inc. (1917 - 1948)
Staff Member
A person employed by an organisation.
Pedlar, John, 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 and Torres Strait Islander Child Placement Principle
Aborigines' Inland Mission (1907 - 1909)
Aborigines Protection Board (1887 - 1890), Crown Colony of Western Australia.
Alvan House (1950 - 1958)
Applecross Cottage (1970 - ?)
Ardross House (1970 - )
Australian Aboriginal Evangelical Mission Hostel (1971? - 1979?)
Australian Aborigines' Mission (1908 - 1929)
Australian Churches of Christ Indigenous Ministries (2009 - )
Australian Inland Mission (c. 1912 - 1977)
Bamburra Hostel (1970 - ?)
Bates, Daisy (1859? - 1951), Stolen Generations and Writer
Beagle Bay Mission (1895 - 1978)
Benedictines, New Norcia (c. 1846 - )
Bennett House (1931 - 2004?)
Bethel Inc. (1965? - 1972?)
Bidyadanga (1956 - 1981)
Boulder Boys' Employment Hostel (1971? - 1995)
Bray, Francis Illingworth, Public Servant and Stolen Generations
Bringing them home oral history project [sound recording] (1998 - 2002), National Library of Australia
Brookton Cottage (1979? - ?)
Bulungarr Hostel (1978 - c. 1986)
Canning Highway Bethel Inc. Hostel (1970? - ?)
Carnarvon Hostel (1968 - 1978?)
Carnarvon Mission (1945 - 1986)
Carrolup (1915 - 1922)
Catholic Diocese of Broome (1897? - )
CBERS Redress Service (2008 - 2012)
Charles Perkins Hostel (1971? - )
Chief Protector of Aborigines (1) (1897 - 1901), Colony of Western Australia
Chief Protector of Aborigines (2) (1901 - 1936), State of Western Australia
Children's Cottage Home, Buckland Hill (1933 - 1935)
Cistercian Order of the Strict Observance (Trappists) (1895 - ?)
Collie Group Home (1977 - ?)
Commissioner for Native Affairs (1936 - 1954)
Commissioner for Native Welfare (1954 - 1972)
Condingup Working Boys' Hostel (1978? - 1983?)
Cooinda (1966 - ?)
Cosmo Newberry (1939 - 1973)
Cundeelee (1950 - c. 1983)
Department of the North West (1920 - 1926), State of Western Australia
Derby Hostel (1956 - 1994)
Djooraminda (1977 - )
Drysdale River Mission (1908 - 1936)
Dulhi Gunyah (1909 - 1918)
Ebenezer Homes (1970? - )
Ellis, Theophilus Tighe (1782? - 1834), Public Servant and Stolen Generations
Fairhaven Hostel (1965 - 1987)
Fitzroy Crossing Group Homes (1976 - 1987?)
Fitzroy Crossing Hostel (1952 - 1976)
Fitzroy Crossing Mission (1952 - 1987)
Forgotten Australians Coming Together (FACT) (2009 - )
Forrest River Mission (1913 - 1968)
Fremantle Cottage (1980 - )
Gale, Charles Frederick (1860 - 1928), Public Servant and Stolen Generations
Gare, Frank Ellis (1918 - 2003), Public Servant and Stolen Generations
Gilliamia Hostel (1971? - c. 1992)
Gilmore House Group Home (1988 - ?)
Greenbushes Hostel (1942 - 1946)
Greenmount Hostel (1971 - 2004?)
Grosser's Boarding House (c. 1970 - ?)
Guardian of Aborigines (1849 - 1857), Crown Colony of Western Australia
Guardian of Aborigines and Protector of Settlers (1857 - 1887), Crown Colony of Western Australia
Hamilton Hill Hostel (1971 - 1991?)
Holy Child Orphanage (1890? - 1970?)
Ieramugadu Shelter (1982 - 1994?)
Inquiry into the treatment of Aboriginal Native Prisoners of the Crown (1883), Crown Colony of Western Australia
Isdell, James (1849? - 1919), Public Servant and Stolen Generations
Kalumburu (1931 - 1982)
Karalundi Mission (1954 - 1974)
Karingal (1966 - 1988?)
Katanning Group Home (1978 - ?)
Katukutu Employment Hostel (1950 - )
Kenwick Farm (1947 - 1961)
Kinship Care
Kurrawang Mission (1951 - 1986)
Kyarra Hostel (1961 - 1984)
Kyewong Hostel (1969 - )
Laverton Hostel (1984 - ?)
Lombadina (1909 - 1975)
Maddington Scatter Cottage (1982 - ?)
Manguri (1988 - 2002)
Maria Goretti Home (1968 - 1974)
Marribank (1952 - 1988)
Medina Education and Employment Hostel (1972 - )
Meekatharra Education and Employment Hostels (1980 - )
Memorial Cottage, Roleystone (1942 - 1944)
Middleton, Stanley, Public Servant and Stolen Generations
Millijiddie Station (1981 - )
Millington Street Hostel (1970? - ?)
Mission (1829? - )
Mission Station (1900? - )
Mogumber (1951 - 1974)
Moola Bulla Station (1910 - 1954?)
Moore River Native Settlement (1918 - 1951)
Moorgunyah Hostel (1967 - 1995)
Mount Margaret Mission (1921 - 1975)
Mowanjum Mission (1956 - 1981)
Myera House (c. 1973 - )
Nabberu Hostel (1971? - 1986)
Native Ward (1964? - 1968?)
Nazareth House (1941 - 1977?)
Neville, Auber Octavius (1875 - 1954), Public Servant and Stolen Generations
New Norcia Mission (1848 - 1974)
Ngangganawili Group Home (1982 - ?)
Nindeebai Education Hostel (c. 1971 - 1984)
Nollamara Children's Respite Home (1973 - 1997)
Norseman Mission (1942 - 1985)
Northam Cottage (1979 - ?)
Northam Group Home (1980 - 2004?)
Oceanview (1970 - 1993?)
Oolanyah Hostel (1971? - c. 1994)
Orfelin Ecole (Orphan School), Broome (1895? - 1898?)
Pallottine Boys' Hostel (1968 - 1980)
Pallottine Centre (1956 - 1991)
Pallottine Mission (1948 - 2004)
Pallottines (Society of the Catholic Apostolates) (1901 - )
Pechell, Edmund Donald, Public Servant and Stolen Generations
Peedamulla Station
Prinsep, Henry Charles (1844 - 1922), Public Servant and Stolen Generations
Protector of Aborigines (1832 - 1954)
Protector of Aborigines (statutory role) (1839 - 1849), Crown Colony of Western Australia
Pukulari Cottage (1974 - 1986)
Rangeview Remand Centre (1993 - )
Rangevue Hostel (1969 - ?)
Roelands - Overview (c. 1930 - 1984)
Roelands Native Mission Farm (1932? - 1975)
Roelands Village (1975 - 1984)
Royal Commission to Enquire into and Report Upon [inter alia] the Administration of the Aborigines Department and the Condition of the Natives (1904? - 1905), State of Western Australia
Royal Commission to Investigate, Report and Advise upon Matters in Relation to the Condition and Treatment of Aborigines 1935 (1934? - 1935), State of Western Australia
Salvation Army Girls' Home, Kalgoorlie (1904? - 1924?)
Seventh Day Adventists
Shedley, D. G. (Mr and Mrs), Cottage Care, Protestant and Stolen Generations
Sister Kate's Child and Family Care Services (1980 - 1988)
Sister Kate's Children's Cottage Home, Queen's Park (1934 - 1980)
Sisters of St John of God (1895 - )
St Joseph's Hostel (1958 - 1986)
St Joseph's School for Aboriginal Girls, New Norcia (1861 - )
St Mary's Mission, New Norcia (1848 - 1974)
Stolen Generations
Strelley Station (c. 1980 - )
Sunday Island Mission School (1899 - )
Superintendent of Natives (1832 - 1838), Crown Colony of Western Australia
Survey of Native Affairs 1947 (1947 - 1948), State of Western Australia
Symmons, Charles (1804? - 1887), Public Servant and Stolen Generations
United Aborigines Mission- UAM Ministries (1929 - )
United Aborigines Mission, Carnarvon (1912? - 1977?)
United Aborigines Mission, Esperance (1966 - ?)
United Aborigines Mission, Gnowangerup (1926 - 1973)
Uniting Church Child and Family Care Services (1977 - 1984?)
Valima Hostel (1971 - )
Ventnor Avenue Hostel (1970 - )
Walter, Father George, Catholic, Mission, Stolen Generations and Superintendent
Wandering Mission (1944 - 1977)
Warburton Mission (1933 - 1977)
Waringarri Group Home (1982 - )
Warminda (1968 - 1987?)
Warramboo Hostel, Yalgoo (1973 - c. 1980)
Warramia Group Home (1972 - )
Wattle Grove Baptist Cottage (1958? - )
Wiluna Mission (? - c. 1975)
Wirrumanu (1939 - 1975)
Wollaston (1973 - c. 2004)
Wongutha Mission (1954 - 1993)
Yaandina Family Centre (1974 - 1995?)
Yokine Cottage (1972 - 1988)
Superintendent
The person responsible for the administration and functioning of an institution.
Walter, Father George, Catholic, Mission, Stolen Generations and Superintendent
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.
Adoption Jigsaw, Western Australia (Inc) (1978 - )
Adults Surviving Child Abuse (1995 - )
Care Leavers Australia Network (2000 - )
Catherine House Incorporated (1975 - 2010?)
CBERS Consultancy (2006 - 2012)
CBERS Redress Service (2008 - 2012)
CBERSS: Christian Brothers Ex Residents and Students Services (1995 - 2005)
Country Women's Association of Western Australia (1924 - )
Department of Indigenous Affairs (2001 - ), State of Western Australia
Koorana (1974 - c. 1986)
Professional Standards Resource Group WA
Tuart Place (2012 - )
Ugly Men's Voluntary Worker's Association Inc. (1917 - 1948)
Watchmen in God's Service (Inc) [WINGS] (1998? - 2006?)