The Catholic Family Welfare Bureau (CFWB) was established on 2 June 1970 as a part-time social work service of the Catholic Archdiocese of Perth, with a focus on children in Catholic institutions. In June 1977 it became part of Centrecare. The Catholic Family Welfare Bureau (CFWB) was established as a part-time agency of the Catholic…
Catherine House, Broome, opened in December 1975 to provide accommodation for Aboriginal children. It replaced the Aboriginal Girls’ Hostel, and was managed by the same two staff members as the Hostel. Catherine House was run by an independent management committee, but financed by the Department of Community Welfare. It could accommodate up to eight children…
The Carnarvon Group Home was established in Carnarvon in 1997 by the Department for Family and Children’s Services to provide short term accommodation for children at risk. In 2014, the Carnavon Group Home provided residential care on a family model and was run by Parkerville Children and Youth Care (Inc).
Bulungurr Hostel, in Wyndham, was developed by the Department for Community Welfare in 1973 as an emergency hostel for Aboriginal families on the site of the old ‘Native Hospital’. A kindergarten and youth training programs were run from the centre for some years. It is not known whether any children were accommodated at Bulungurr. The…
Bethel Inc.was an independent missionary society initiated by Don and Meg Shedley to provide residential accommodation based on Christian principles for Aboriginal students, male and female. The first Home began in 1962, and Bethel Inc was formed in 1964. Bethel operated until 1982, with three hostels in Applecross for high school students, and two in…
Bedford Hostel opened in 1971 and provided accommodation to young Aboriginal women attending Edwards Business College. At first it was managed on behalf of the Department of Native Welfare by Edwards Business College before becoming government-run, probably by 1972. By the 1980s, Bedford Hostel was used for assessments and emergency placement and became one of…
Baptist Union of WA was established in 1896 with the union of four Baptist churches in Western Australia. In 2014, the Baptist Union of WA was also known as Baptist Churches Western Australia, and is the coordinating body for the welfare and mission activities of Baptist Churches. The Baptist Union WA ran metropolitan hostels and…
Anglicare Youth House, in West Perth, was established by Anglicare WA in 1994 replacing the Carlisle Group House. It provided support and medium term accomodation for six young people aged 16-19 years in a group house setting. Anglicare Youth House was open until at least 1995 and was possibly also known as ‘Youth House’. According…
Fostering Futures was established by AnglicareWA in 2010 to continue Teenshare, and provide emergency, medium and long-term foster placements for young people aged 10 to 17 years. Fostering Futures continued in 2014 as a 24-hour per day, seven days per week service of AnglicareWA. The program ended in June 2017, with the Department of Child…
Anglicare’s Homesharers was a fostercare placement program, established in 1982. It was a community based scheme in which people in the local community provided medium to long term accommodation to young people. From 1988, the Anglicare Emergency Foster Care Scheme and Anglicare Homesharers programs ran concurrently and placed children into care with various families in…
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