Armadale Youth Accommodation Service opened in 1989 to provide emergency accommodation services for young people, run by an independent management committee which ceased in 2002. It was funded through the Youth Supported Accommodation Program (YSAAP). Some young people may have been referred by child welfare authorities, but self-referrals were possible. It was later run by Anglicare (September 2002-October 2003) and by Great Mates from November 2003.
The Western Australian government has agreed to be a funder of last resort for this institution. This means that although the institution is now defunct, it is participating in the National Redress Scheme, and the government has agreed to pay the institution’s share of costs of providing redress to a person (as long as the government is found to be equally responsible for the abuse a person experienced).
From
1989
To
2002
1989 - 2002
Armadale Youth Accommodation Service was located at 317 Railway Avenue, Armadale, Western Australia (Building Still standing)