Asylum is a term used throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to refer to a place of refuge for the poor, destitute, aged and dependent, as well as for people with mental illness (historically referred to as ‘lunatics’). Asylums were generally run by charities or churches, but funded by the government. Some nineteenth century…
Benevolent Asylums were private institutions set up in the nineteenth century to house ‘destitute’ men, women and children, expectant mothers (lying-in) as well as ‘deserted wives’, ‘waifs’, ‘neglected children’ and ‘orphans’. Click here to see the full Find & Connect glossary
A Reception Centre was an institution designed to provide short term ‘care’ for children before they were sent to a longer-term placement (typically a foster Home). Children in reception centres often went through a process of ‘classification’ before being placed. The term came into use around the 1950s. Children would return to a reception centre…
Residential care (as distinct from home-based care, like foster care or kinship care) is a term used to describe the placement of children and young people in residential units. Residential care is provided by paid staff employed by a non-government agency. Residential care properties usually house three or four people at a time and these…
Family Group Home is the name given to a model of ‘care’ where small groups of children are accommodated in buildings that approximate the size and form of an average home. They began to appear in as a form of ‘care’ in Australia from the late 1940s, following concerns about the lack of individual attention…
Adolescent Community Placement (or ACP) is a term used to describe a home-based care model for young people aged 12 to 18 years who are experiencing crisis and are unable to live with their families for a range of reasons. This type of placement enables young people to reside in a home-like environment with the…
The Register, Bomaderry Aboriginal Children’s Home, is a single-volume admission register, listing children admitted to Bomaderry. The register appears to be a handwritten transcription of details relating to the admission and discharge of children to and from Bomaderry Aboriginal Children’s Home, written in a single hand and compiled from other sources. In late 2022, a…
Orphanages or orphan asylums were a prominent feature of Australian urban landscapes from the early nineteenth through to the mid-twentieth centuries. Orphanages founded in both Britain and the United States from the late 18th century were voluntary organisations designed to rescue the children of the ‘deserving’ poor from being admitted to the workhouse. In Australia,…
The Archive of the General Conference of the Seventh-day Adventists houses over 20,000 linear feet of records documenting the history of the Seventh-day Adventist Church worldwide. The collection is managed by the Office of Archives, Statistics, and Research of the church. The collection includes items such as minutes, correspondence, newsletters, books, pamphlets, audio-visual material, photographs,…
Please contact the Office of Archives, Statistics and Research: Postal Address: Adventist World Headquarters 12501 Old Columbia Pike Silver Spring, MD 20904-6600 Email: archives@gc.adventist.org
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