The Adelaide Walker Family Group Home was opened by the United Protestant Association at Orange in 1982. It is thought to have closed in the 1990s.
Hillview Cottage was a family group home established in Gardiner Road, Orange by the United Protestant Association in 1983. It closed in 1996 and was replaced by a larger family group home in James Cook Crescent.
The Family Group Home, Lismore United Protestant Association, was set up by the United Protestant Association’s Far North Coast District Council in Murwillumbah in 1984. It closed in the early 1990s.
Phillips Cottage was a foster home set up by the United Protestant Association at Maitland. The UPA had intended to open a family group home at Maitland, but it was not required. It opened as Special Projects of the UPA then became a foster home for a family of three children and was named Phillips…
FRYAR Cottage is a family group home set up by the United Protestant Association in 1993 at Thornton, near Maitland. Thornton was funded by the Fryars, a brother and sister who had been benefactors to Woodlands and Ellimatta Homes.
Ellimeek was established by the United Protestant Association in 1945, next to Ellimatta at East Maitland. Originally used as flats, it was converted to a girls home. Ellimatta and Ellimeek closed in 1982.
The Fairbridge Society developed from the Child Emigration Society, established in 1909 by Kingsley Fairbridge. Its purpose was to send British child migrants to different parts of the Empire where they would learn farming at special farm schools. The Fairbridge Society ran Pinjarra in Western Australia from 1913, and sent children to farm schools in…
St Christopher’s Home in Young was a children’s home established by the Church of England at McLerie Street (now Calabash Street), Young. As well as caring for up to 14 children at a time, the Home provided ‘vocational training’ in the church’s work for six girls, which included teaching, nursing and ‘works of mercy’. In…
Child and Adolescent Specialist Programs and Accommodation (CASPA) was the name chosen by the North Coast Children’s Home Inc in 2000. In 2013 CASPA, which was linked with Anglicare, provided residential and outreach programmes for children and young people in out-of-home care, foster care, disability care and mental health. By the early twentieth century the…
Charlton Boys’ Home, Bowral, was opened on 15 January 1961 by the Home Mission Society as a branch of the Charlton Boys’ Home at Ashfield. At its opening there were 12 boys in residence, and by 1963 there were 21 boys living at Charlton Boys’ Home. The home had capacity for up to 24 boys….
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