The Christ Church St Laurence Welfare Bureau ran after-care clinics and employment schemes to assist boys who had been through criminal hearings in the Children’s Court but were discharged. It was part of Christ Church St Laurence, an Anglo-Catholic (Anglican) Church based in Haymarket. It is thought to have operated between 1936 and around 1941.
St Anthony’s and St Joseph’s Centre of Care was the name of the new organisation created with the amalgamation of St Anthony’s Home Croydon and St Joseph’s Home for Children, Croydon, in around 1980. It was run by the Sisters of St Joseph and provided a range of services to children, young people and families….
St Anne’s Nursery was a nursery run by the Sisters of St Joseph at St Anthony’s Croydon. It had 30 cots that held babies waiting for adoption. It was located in the building that had been used as St Anne’s Hospital. In 1963 it was converted to St Gerard’s, a hospital for married and unmarried…
The Mercy Family Centre was incorporated in 1994. It was formerly the Mercy Family Life Centre, and was built on the grounds of the former Our Lady of Mercy Home at Waitara by the Sisters of Mercy. Its services included emergency accommodation, educational services to families and child care services. In 2001 the Mercy Family…
The Dominican Sisters of Eastern Australia is a Catholic women’s religious order. In 1867, representatives of an Irish Dominican community founded an autonomous eastern Australian congregation initially based in Maitland, New South Wales (Hellwig, 2020). The Dominican Sisters ran the School for Deaf Girls at Waratah in New South Wales (established 1886), and St Mary’s…
St Carthage’s College for Young Ladies was established at Brooklyn in 1907 by the Sisters of Mercy North Sydney Congregation. It was a boarding school and home for girls from isolated properties. St Carthage’s was converted to a residential children’s home and renamed St Catherine’s Orphanage in 1931. St Carthage’s College for Young Ladies was…
The Institute of Sisters of Mercy of Australia and Papua New Guinea (ISMAPNG) was formed on December 12, 2011 from a number of congregations of the Sisters of Mercy across Australia and Papua New Guinea. ISMAPNG is a congregation of Catholic women who aim to serve people who experience injustices related to poverty, sickness or…
St Anne’s Group Homes were established in the 1960s on the site of St Anne’s Orphanage at Liverpool. They were for children aged 2 to 16 years. St Anne’s group homes were also opened at Dundas, Parramatta, Ryde and 9 Loloma Street, Cabramatta (the latter being the site where St Anne’s Emergency Centre was established)….
The Dunlea Centre was opened in Engadine in 2010. It had been called Boys’ Town Engadine, but became the Dunlea Centre when it included the Margaret residential unit for young women. In 2012 the Dunlea Centre provided a range of services to adolescent children and their families including life skills education and residential out of…
CatholicCare Social Services Hunter-Manning is the welfare arm of the Catholic Church in Newcastle. Until 2011, it was known as Centacare Newcastle. It is run by the Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle. CatholicCare Hunter-Manning offers a variety of services including foster care; counselling (marriage, bereavement and sexual assault); employment programs; and youth accommodation and support programs. CatholicCare…
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