The Lunacy Department was established in 1905 as a department of the Victorian State Government, and part of the Chief Secretary’s Department. It replaced the Hospitals for the Insane Branch of the Chief Secretary’s Department. The Lunacy Department was responsible for the treatment of people deemed to have mental illness or intellectual disability. It had…
Fairbridge Village provided accommodation and training for homeless and disadvantaged youth. It was established by Jesus People in 1983 on the former site of Fairbridge Farm School, Pinjarra. Funding difficulties meant that the project did not realise its aims to accommodate up to 250 young people at a time, and it closed in early 1985….
The Health Commission of Victoria was established in 1978 by the Health Commission Act 1977. It took on the responsibilities previously administered by the Mental Health Authority, Department of Health, Commission of Public Health, and the Hospitals and Charities Commission. The Health Commission had three divisions: the Public Health Division, the Hospitals Division, and the…
Arden Girls’ Home was opened by the Church of England Homes on 5th August 1919 at Forsyth Street, Glebe. It was both a girls home, as well as administrative headquarters for the Church of England’s management of its other Homes on the opposite side of Forsyth Street (Avona Girls’ Home, Tress-Manning Girls’ Training Home, Strathmore…
Strathmore Girls’ Home was opened on 8th February 1923 by the Church of England Homes at Glebe in a building that had previously been used as the Church Rescue Home for women. Strathmore was on the same site as the Avona Girls’ Home and the Tress Manning Girl’s Training Home. Strathmore had capacity for 50…
The Church of England Home for Girls, also known as Avona, was opened in 1904 at Glebe, on a site next to the Church Rescue Home (Strathmore). It had capacity for approximately 60 girls. Avona was opened to provide an alternative to housing young girls with older women at Strathmore, as the committee running the…
The Church of England Training Home for Girls opened on the 9th August 1909 as a Home for girls between the ages of 14 and 16. The Home, also known as the Tress-Manning Home, was built at Forsyth Street, Glebe, on a site between the Church Rescue Home for Women (Strathmore) and the Church of…
Terrigal Holiday Home, also known as Spurway Holiday House, was a holiday home for boys from the Church of England Boys Home, Carlingford. The home at Terrigal (also sometimes referred to as Wamberal) was donated to the Boys Home in 1942. In 2022 the Home was still owned by the Church of England, however it…
Warrawillah Seaside Holiday Home for Girls was opened by Church of England Homes at Collaroy on the 6th October 1956. It was used to provide holidays to girls living at the Church of England Girl’s Home at Carlingford. Warrawillah closed in 1976 due to the poor condition of the building, and the effects of beach…
Kingsleigh Group Home was a family group home opened by the Anglican Home Mission Society at St Ives in 1975. It closed in February 1977, and the children living there were returned to their parents. From 1978 the Kingsleigh name was re-used for another family group home operated by the Anglican Home Mission Society at…
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