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Bungarimbil Adolescent and Family Care Program

The Bungarimbil Adolescent and Family Care Program operated as part of the Anglicare Services of the Anglican Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn and was based in Wagga Wagga. It offered a temporary foster care program, Care Force Youth Support Program, a community placement program, a children’s centre, a community centre and a counselling service. Bungarimbil…

Church Army

The Church Army was an Anglican religious organisation founded by Wilson Carlile in 1882, and established in Australia, in Perth, in 1932. It provided staffing and oversaw day to day operations of children’s Homes in the Newcastle Anglican Diocese: Morpeth Home for Children (St Alban’s Boys Home) (the Church Army was involved 1935-1948), St Elizabeth’s…

Anglican Diocese of Newcastle

The Church of England (Anglican) Diocese of Newcastle was formed around 1800. It was responsible for the operation of several children’s homes in the Hunter and Manning River areas of New South Wales. Children’s homes run by the Church of England/Anglican Diocese of Newcastle included St Christopher’s Home for Little Children, Morpeth Home for Children,…

Carramar Adoption Agency

Carramar Adoption Agency was established in 1961, and was known by that name until 1965, when it became the Church of England Adoption Agency. In 1978 the name was again changed, to Anglican Adoption Agency. Since 1997, the service has been known as Anglicare Adoption Services. In 1963 seventy girls entered Carramar, some so young…

Church of England Adoption Agency

The Church of England Adoption Agency was known as the Carramar Adoption Agency until 1965. In 1978 the name was again changed, to Anglican Adoption Agency. Since 1997, the service has been known as Anglicare Adoption Services.

Anglican Adoption Agency

The Anglican Adoption Agency was known as the Church of England Adoption Agency until 1978. Since 1997, the service has been known as Anglicare Adoption Services.

Anglicare Adoption Services

Anglicare Adoption Services was established in 1997. Previously it was known as the Anglican Adoption Agency. It is a specific part of the Anglicare Out of Home Care Services and of the Anglicare Telepea Office that supports adoption services. This includes providing ongoing support to all main parties in a past adoption made through the…

Anglicare Welfare Services, Sydney

Anglicare Welfare Services, Sydney was the welfare division of Anglicare New South Wales (formerly the Anglican Home Mission Society) which in turn was the welfare arm of the Sydney Diocese of the Anglican Church (Church of England). Charlton Youth Services was part of Anglicare Welfare Services. Care Force (later known as Anglicare Child and Family…

Charlton Youth Services

Charlton Youth Services was an agency of the Anglican Home Mission Society and, after Anglicare was formed in 1985, of Anglicare Welfare Services. It was formed to manage Charlton Boys Homes in the 1950s. Charlton Youth Services provided care for older boys, many of whom were referred by the courts. By 2012, the name Charlton…

New South Wales Protestant Federation Children’s Home

The New South Wales Protestant Federation Children’s Home was situated in Garnet Street, Hurlstone Park, on the border of Dulwich Hill. It was founded in 1921 and, despite the title, was a girls’ home that in the 1940s held up to 90 girls at a time. It closed in 1980. As Garnet Street forms the…