The Girls’ Industrial Home at Stanmore was run by the Salvation Army at 97 Cambridge Street, Stanmore, on the same site as the Stanmore Rescue Home. The Girls’ Industrial Home was an industrial school for girls who had been through police courts and conducted training and employment assistance. It closed in 1948 and was replaced…
The Rescued Sisters’ Home was opened at North Broken Hill by the Salvation Army in 1898. It was a rescue and maternity home for women and girls and operated in Chapple Street from 1898 until 1909 and then moved to Williams Street until 1917, when the home closed.
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….
The Lodge Young Women’s Hostel, was run by the Salvation Army at Cambridge Street, Stanmore. It replaced the Girls’ Industrial Home that had operated on the same site. The Lodge was a hostel for girls and young women. It changed its name to Stanmore Children’s Home in 1975, although it appears to have been known…
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…
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…
Anglicare New South Wales South, New South Wales West and Australian Capital Territory is the welfare arm of the Anglican Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn.
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….
Birralee was a children’s home that was opened in Wagga Wagga on 27 March 1971 by the Church of England Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn. It provided cottage care for seven children. In 1976, after changes to NSW Government funding of out-of-home care, the Diocese closed the home. The decision to close Birralee was taken…
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