Parkerville Children and Youth Care (Inc) was established as a legal entity in 2005. Previously it was known as Parkerville Children’s Home Incorporated. It is the organisation that has inherited the history, records and ongoing operations of the Parkerville Children’s Home. In 2014, it also provided out of home care in metropolitan and regional Western…
The Department of Education and Training (DET) was created in 2003 by merging the Department of Education and the Department of Training. Through the schools that it runs, the DET has an influence on, and creates records relevant to, children in out of home care in Western Australia.
The Collie Welfare Council was the independent management committee that ran the Koolingar-Mia Group Home in Collie from 1977 to around 1979. The Home was owned by child welfare authorities, but managed and staffed by the Collie Welfare Council.
Special Collections and Archives (SC&A), University of Liverpool (in the United Kingdom) has a collection including manuscripts and archives, medieval to modern; early and finely printed books, and science fiction collections. Its Social Welfare Archives comprise records deposited at the University of Liverpool by child-related voluntary organisations, community projects and organisations working with the homeless.
Jigsaw Search & Connect came into being in 2014. At that time, the organisation Adoption Jigsaw, Western Australia decided to change its constitution, and establish another organisation in Western Australia, called Jigsaw Search & Connect. Jigsaw Search & Connect is to provide services to people affected by foster care and other separated families. In December…
The Uniting Church (Synod of Western Australia) Archives holds some records and information about out of home care that were created by the Methodist and Presbyterian churches and, after 1977, the Uniting Church in WA.
Yanay Yenma was the Aboriginal body that ran the Boomerang Youth Hostel, Geraldton from at least 1999 (possibly 1997) until 2009. In 2009, it passed the hostel management to the Bundiyarra Aboriginal Community Aboriginal Corporation.
The Bundiyarra Aboriginal Community Aboriginal Corporation is the organisation that ran the Boomerang Youth Hostel after it was transferred from the Yanay Yanma Aboriginal Corporation in 2010.
The Aboriginal Boomerang Council Inc was established on 30 August 1977. From 1979, for an unknown period, the Council ran the Aboriginal Boomerang Council Youth Hostel in Geraldton. The Council was deregistered on 17 February 1997 and the whereabouts of records is unknown.
Wanslea Family Services was established as the Wanslea Hostel Committee in 1946 and incorporated as Wanslea Family Services Inc in 1948. It ran the Wanslea Children’s Home in Cottesloe and in 2013 offered foster care and other family support services.
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