Carinity: Baptist Community Services is the new name of the organisation formerly known as Queensland Baptist Care. The new name was launched in May 2013. The name Carinity comes from the words ‘care’ and ‘affinity’. Carinity provides care and services for people in need.
The Health and Home Affairs Department, within the State Children’s Department, was established in 1935 to provide care, management and control of orphaned, abandoned and convicted children and their property. Previously, it was known as the Home Secretary’s Office, State Children Department. The Department ran Toowoomba Mental Hospital and Farm Home for Boys, Westbrook. Responsibility…
The State Children Department, a sub-department of the Labour and Industry Department, was created to provide care, management and control of orphaned, neglected, abandoned, delinquent and convicted children and their property. The Department ran Farm Home for Boys, Westbrook, Birralee Children’s Home, Townsville Receiving Depot, Carramar Receiving and Assessment Centre, Warilda Children’s Home and Warilda…
The Family and Youth Services Department was established on 9 June 1987. It was responsible for a broad range of community services including youth and ethnic affairs. The Department ran the Therapeutic Adolescent Residential Assessment Unit, Warilda Receiving and Assessment Centre, Carramar Receiving and Assessment Centre, Sir Leslie Wilson Youth Centre, The Outlook Training and…
The Department of Christian Citizenship was an agency of the Methodist Church and replaced the Department of Social Services in 1965. It auspiced Westwood, a residential education centre at Bowral, and ran Iandra Methodist Rural Centre, St Andrews at Leppington and the Heighway House Project. When the Uniting Church formed in 1977 the Department of…
St John’s Home for Boys Board of Management was established by the Synod of the Church of England Diocese of Melbourne in 1926. The St John’s Board of Management took over the running of St John’s Home for Boys from a provisional committee set up by the Church of England in 1919. In 1958, its…
The Anglican Diocese of North Queensland was incorporated in 1883, when it was known as the Church of England Diocese of North Queensland. In 1900, part of North Queensland was separated to form the new Diocese of Carpentaria, which also included the Northern Territory. In 1981 the Church of England changed its name to the…
Brisbane Legacy ran Moorlands children’s home in Auchenflower. The Legacy Club of Brisbane Limited was founded on 18 May 1928. It was one of a network of Legacy clubs around Australia working to assist the partners and children of war veterans.
Caretakers Cottage was established by the Paddington Woollahra Youth Service (PWYS) in 1977. It was first located in a cottage on Gordon Street, Paddington provided by the Uniting Church, and later moved into the Manse on Regent Street. In 1990, the refuge – still called Caretakers Cottage – moved to Albion St, Surry Hills. In…
The Ministering Children’s League was a British organisation founded in 1884, with branches operating globally and across Australia. The League conducted charitable work, such as supporting, fundraising for, and running various institutions such as hospitals, respite/convalescent homes, and children’s homes. The League was non-sectarian and included adult and child members. It operated with the objective…
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