Please contact Child and Adolescent Specialist Programs and Accommodation (CASPA): Postal Address: PO Box 780, Lismore NSW 2480 Phone: (02) 6621 5446 Email: admin@caspa.asn.au Website: https://caspa.org.au/
Please contact Family Spirit Adoption Services: Postal address: Suite 301, Level 3, 2-14 Meredith Street, Bankstown NSW, 2220 Phone: (02) 8709 9333 Email: adoptions@familyspirit.org Website: https://www.familyspirit.org/
Please contact the Archivist, Good Samaritan Archives: Postal Address: PO Box 1076, Glebe Point, NSW 2037 Phone: (02) 8752 5300 Email: archives@goodsams.org.au Website: https://www.goodsams.org.au/who-we-are/archives/
Please contact Dunlea Centre: Postal Address: PO Box 99, Engadine NSW 2233 Phone: (02) 8508 3900 Email: director@boystown.net.au Website: https://www.dunleacentre.org.au/
Contact Anglicare Out-of-Home Care: Phone: (02) 9890 6855 Address: 19A Gibbons Street, Telopea NSW 2117 Website: https://www.anglicare.org.au/what-we-offer/foster-care-adoption/
Please contact the Congregation Leader at Sisters of Mercy, Paramatta Congregation: Postal address: PO Box 2012, North Parramatta NSW 1750 Phone: (02) 9683 2555 Email: enquiries@parrasom.org.au Website: http://www.parramattamercy.org.au/
Please contact Barnardos Australia (Aftercare Office): Postal Address: Barnardos After Care, GPO Box 9996, Sydney NSW 2001 Phone: (02) 9281 2300 Email: aftercare@barnardos.org.au Website: https://www.barnardos.org.au/services/
Avona Hostel, in Glebe, was set up by the Anglican Home Mission Society in 1947. It was for boys aged 15 to 18 who had appeared before the Children’s Court and were described by the Home Mission Society as ‘neglected, homeless or unwanted.’ The hostel held 25 boys. Avona Hostel closed around 1962. Avona Hostel…
The Church Rescue Home was established in 1885 and run by a committee associated with the Church of England Temperance Society. It opened as a Home for the “rescue” of “intemperate”, “inebriate”, and “fallen” women (‘Church Home for the Intemperate and the Fallen’, published in The Sydney Morning Herald, 13 September 1884), including teenage girls….
The Community of the Sisters of the Church of England, also known as the Kilburn Sisters, is a group of Anglican religious women. They ran the Church of England Orphanage in Burwood, as well as a number of schools. They have been active in Australia since 1892.
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