The Churches of Christ Federal Aborigines Mission Board (Inc) (CCFAMB) was established as an incorporated body, as part of Churches of Christ in Australia in 1942. The CCFAMB ran Norseman Mission; Carnarvon Mission (Ingada Village); Fairhaven Hostel, Esperance; Bamburra Hostel, Yokine; Condingup Hostel; and Roelands Village, including Wollaston Hostel in Bunbury. More than 2,000 children…
Parent Help Centre was established around 2004 in the premises that had been the Katukuku Employment Hostel.
UnitingCare West began on 1 July 2006 as an agency of the Uniting Church in Australia (Synod of Western Australia). It was formed from the merger of a number of Uniting Church agencies, including Mofflyn Child and Family Care Services. UnitingCare West inherited the history and records of many of the Uniting Church, Methodist and…
The House of Mercy was established in Perth in 1891 as a ‘non-denominational charity for single mothers’. It was run by a private management committee. Women were expected to work in the commercial laundry at the Home, which was funded by these activities and charitable donations. The name was changed to the Alexandra Home for…
Albany Forum was identified in the annual report of the Department for Community Welfare in 1979 as the community-based management committee that was jointly running the Albany Group Home with the Department. No more information about the Albany Forum, or any records it may have created, had been found in 2014.
The Catherine McAuley Centre was run by the Sisters of Mercy from 1971. It replaced the St Joseph’s Girls’ Orphanage and St Vincent’s Foundling Home which closed in 1974, and were on the same site in Subiaco. Children who were wards and also those who were ‘privately placed’ lived there, or in one of the…
The Youth Accommodation Program in South Hedland was established by the East Pilbara Youth Council in 1983, to provide emergency accommodation and support services for young people aged 15-25 years who were homeless or in crisis. In 2003, the service transferred to the Youth Involvement Council Inc. The program has had a number of names…
Swan Accommodation Service (The Junction) began in 1980 to provide emergency accommodation service for families and single persons, but by 1982 housed only homeless youth. In 1986 the Service offered accommodation at the Snow Bennett Youth Shelter in Dudley Street, Midland. In 2001, the service provided temporary accommodation at its crisis centre and in a…
Fremantle Youth Crisis Accommodation Service provides safe and supported accommodation to youth who are homeless or at imminent risk of homelessness.
Fremantle Community Youth Services began in 1977 in a three-bedroom home on Quarry Street, Fremantle, offering short to medium term accommodation to young people. It was run by the City of Fremantle, and, between 1985 and 1989, it was run by Mofflyn Child and Family Care Services. In 2001 the service offered medium and long…
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