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New South Wales - Organisation
Presbyterian Social Services (1988 - )
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- 1988
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- Church Agency, Records Access Service, Presbyterian, Protestant, Records Holder
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Presbyterian Social Services Child and Family Programme auspiced three medium to long term youth accommodation programs in Sydney. These were Kyle Williams Home at 52 Waratah Street, Blakehurst, New Anchor home at 79 Sutherland Road, Jannali, and Cornerstone at 20 Wrentmore Street, Fairfield.
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By 2010, all youth accommodation services had closed.
By the mid 2010s, Presbyterian Social Services was also known as Jericho Road.
Previously the Presbyterian Church auspiced a number of homes and programs which were absorbed into the Uniting Church in 1977. This included Burnside Homes for Children. Additionally, the Presbyterian Adoption Agency, which had also arranged many adoption services through the Queen Victoria Hospital at Annandale and the Pittwood Homes at Ashfield was devolved, and all files and relevant records regarding adoptions were transferred to the Department of Community Services.
- Collection Title
- Records held by Presbyterian Social Services (1988 - )
- Date Range
- 1988 -
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Please contact Jericho Road (Presbyterian Social Services):
Address: 8 Perry Street, Dundas Valley, NSW 2117
Phone: 1300 5374246
Email: info@jerichoroad.org.au
Website: https://jerichoroad.org.au/get-in-touch/
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- Records relating to Adoption (1900? - )
- Date Range
- 1900 -
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Please contact the Adoption Information Unit:
Postal address: Locked Bag 5000, Parramatta NSW 2124
Phone: 1300 799 023 or (02) 9716 3005 (from overseas)
Email: Adoption.Information@dcj.nsw.gov.au
Website: https://www.facs.nsw.gov.au/families/adoption/finding-info
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Reverend Harry Herbert, Address to Uniting Church Historical Society
