Jessie Street Family Group Home, in Rockhampton, was operated by the the Sisters of Mercy. It was purchased in January 1978. Children from St Joseph’s Home, Neerkol, were transferred to the home. It was unoccupied from June 1984 and the approved bed numbers were reduced to nil in January 1985.
Ward Street Family Group Home, in Rockhampton, was operated by the Sisters of Mercy. It was purchased in June 1977 and opened 12 October 1977. Children from St Joseph’s Home, Neerkol, were transferred to the home. It closed early 1979.
The State Library of Queensland was established in 1896 and opened in 1902. The State Library is the legal deposit library for Queensland, the main reference and research library of Queensland and its primary role is to ensure Queensland’s documentary heritage is collected, preserved and made accessible to the public. The Library holds some records…
Adoption Services Queensland (ASQ) is part of the Department of Families, Seniors, Disability Services and Child Safety, Queensland Government. ASQ is responsible for administering adoption legislation. ASQ provides services in Queensland to: parent/s considering adoption for their children children requiring adoptive placements people seeking to adopt children people seeking information about a past adoption people…
The Children’s Services Department was established in 1966 to promote, safeguard and protect the well-being of the children and youth of the state through a comprehensive and coordinated program of child and family welfare. Previously, child and family welfare was the responsibility of the State Children Department, a sub-department of the Labour and Industry Department….
The Reformatory School for Boys, Lytton was run by the State Government of Queensland. Boys under the age of 18 years were sentenced to a term of confinement at the reformatory by Children’s Courts. It opened 1881 when inmates from the hulk Proserpine were transferred to the new land-based reformatory. It closed 1899 when the…
The Catholic Family Welfare Bureau in Queensland was formed in 1958 by Archbishop of Brisbane James Duhig. It grew out of an organisation called the Catholic Marriage Advisory Council. In 1984, the organisation became known as Centre Care (later updated again to Centacare in 1991). The Catholic Family Welfare Bureau grew out of a lay…
The Home Secretary’s Office, within the new State Children Department, was created under the State Children Act 1911. The Department was established to provide care, management and control of orphaned, abandoned and convicted children and their property. The position of ‘Inspector of Orphanages’ became that of ‘Director’ of the department.The Department ran Brisbane Industrial Home,…
The Cootharinga Home for Crippled Children, in North Ward, Townsville was opened on 22 June 1957. The Home was run by the North Queensland Society for Crippled Children and provided care, treatment and accommodation for children suffering the effects of polio. The Home closed in 1994.
The Aboriginal Girls Home was situated in a house at West End called Cranbrook, in the vicinity of Victoria and Kurilpa streets. It acted as a receiving depot for Aboriginal domestic servants from all over Queensland. Any single girl or woman travelling through Brisbane, visiting for medical attention or between domestic service stints was forced…
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