Myra House was established by the Catholic Church in 1945 and run by the Legion of Mary. It was a Home for girls aged 14 to 18. It could accommodate up to 12 residents, and the average stay was between 3 and 5 months. Myra House was located in Kew until 1954 when it moved…
The Salesian College in Sunbury was acquired by the Salesians in 1927 (the site was Rupertswood). It became a registered Victorian school in 1929. It accommodated boys between 10 and 16.
The Young Catholic Workers’ Hostel, Albert Park, was established in 1946, for boys from St Augustine’s Orphanage, Geelong, who had found employment in Melbourne. It was run by the Young Christian Workers Movement. The Hostel closed in 1963. The Young Catholic Workers’ Hostel opened in 1946 to provide a base for boys working in Melbourne….
The Salvation Army Children’s Creche, in North Carlton, was established in 1915. It offered day care for pre-school children under the age of five, as well as accommodating a number of children. The Melbourne City Council bought the property and buildings in 1947, and the Salvation Army transferred the children to its new Kardinia Children’s…
The Young Christian Workers’ Movement Hostel, Hawthorn, was established in 1948. It was located in a house known as ‘The Terricks’ at the corner of Paterson and Oxley Road. It offered temporary housing to young migrants from Britain. The Hostel closed in 1955. The Young Christian Workers’ Movement’s plan was for young men to live…
The Young Christian Workers’ Movement (YCW) was established in 1941 in Melbourne, by Catholic priest Father Francis William Lombard in 1941. The YCW was briefly involved with child migration to Victoria, conducting a a program to nominate immigrants. It also ran hostels: one for young migrant workers in Hawthorn in the late 1940s and early…
The Palms was a hostel in Hawthorn, run by the Burwood Boys’ Home. It was for boys who had completed their schooling. It was closed and sold in 1959.
The Heathfield Homes Reformatory School for Protestant Boys, Apollo Bay, was opened on the 4 July 1905 at Apollo Bay and run under the auspices of the Church of England. Boys sent to the Reformatory were trained in farm work. The School closed on 29 October 1915. The Heathfield Reformatory was opened on 4 July…
On 1 February 2010, Wesley Mission Victoria came into being. It was previously known as Wesley Mission Melbourne. The name change reflected an expansion of Wesley’s services into regional areas of Victoria. In July 2017, Wesley Mission Victoria merged with 21 UnitingCare agencies to form a new organisation: Uniting (Victoria and Tasmania) Limited.
The origins of Jesuit Social Services are in the work of Peter Norden SJ in the late 1970s. In January 1977, Norden established a hostel for young offenders in Hawthorn. This grew into what became known as the Brosnan Centre, named after the long-serving chaplain at Pentridge Prison, Fr John Brosnan. In December 1976 ‘Four…
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