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Lutanda Children’s Services

Lutanda Children’s Services is a Christian Brethren community service organisation that was established in 1954. Lutanda Children’s Services commenced by supporting Lutanda Children’s Home and opening Camp Toukley as a holiday home. From 1984, Lutanda Children’s Services provided care in family group homes in Baulkham Hills and Glenmore Park. In 2013, the family group homes…

Eddy’s Out West

Eddy’s Out West was established around 1981 in Blacktown, Western Sydney to provide short and long-term accommodation and support services to young people aged 12-18 who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.

Edmund Rice Community Services

Edmund Rice Community Services was established around 2001 and ran Eddy’s Place and Eddy’s Out West in New South Wales. They provided medium to long term accommodation and outreach services for young people and to people who are homeless or at risk of being homeless. On 1 July 2009 MacKillop Family Services took over these…

BaptistCare

BaptistCare was established in 2014 as a not-for-profit Christian based care organisation working in ACT and New South Wales. BaptistCare was previously known as Baptist Community Services.

Havilah Group Home

Havilah Group Home, at Frampton Street, Marrickville, was run by Church of England Children’s Homes from 1979 until 1984 as a family group home for up to 8 Aboriginal children between the ages of 6 and 14 years old. It was staffed by Aboriginal people and was one of the first homes of its kind….

Anglican Diocese of Bathurst

The Bathurst Diocese of the Church of England in the west of New South Wales comprises 34 parishes, stretching from the Blue Mountains to the Queensland border. The Bathurst Diocese established the St Michael’s War Memorial Children’s Homes at Bathurst in 1957. It ran an Anglican Youth Council and a Children’s Home Council, who took…

Presbyterian Adoption Agency

The Presbyterian Adoption Agency was an agency of the Presbyterian Church that may have been actively arranging adoptions from the 1950s until the 1970s. Its adoption records are held by the Department of Family and Community Services.

Singleton Aboriginal Children’s Home

The Singleton Aboriginal Children’s Home was run by the Aborigines Inland Mission in the same rented house as the Singleton Home, which had been a girls’ home. Singleton Aboriginal Children’s Home was for both sexes and the children were aged from birth to 14 years. It was used by the Aborigines Protection Board as an…

Aborigines Inland Mission Bible Training College

The Aborigines Inland Mission [AIM] Bible Training College was located at Minimbah House, Whittingham, near Singleton. It was the new name for the Native Workers’ Training College, which was a Baptist ministry training school for teenage and young Aboriginal people from all over Australia. The name change marked a shift from being Baptist to being…

Australian Indigenous Ministries

Australian Indigenous Ministries is the modern name of the Aborigines Inland Mission. The name change occurred in 1998. In 2014 it is not directly involved in caring for children and it appears that its historical records and photographic collections were donated to the State Library of New South Wales between 2000 and 2010.