Non-Government Organisation, or NGO, is a broad term for charities, not-for-profit agencies and religious organisations which provide services to the community, including services to support families and out-of-home ‘care’ programs. It is commonly used in New South Wales. In some states and territories, including Victoria, such organisations are known as Community Service Organisations, or CSOs….
This page lists all of the United Aborigines Mission (UAM) archival records known to have existed and having once been in the organisation’s custody. Since the beginning of the Find & Connect web resource project, the UAM has disputed the scope and amount of records that have been identified as having once been held by…
Lantern slides taken by Ruby Hyde are images held by the State Library of South Australia. They are slides taken or collected by Hyde when she was Matron of Colebrook Home. Access Conditions Out of copyright. Many images are available online on the State Library of South Australia website. Five of the slides require special…
City of Melville Libraries and Museums holds the historical and library collections for the City of Melville council, which encompasses the suburbs of Bicton, Applecross, Ardross, Melville, Kardinya, Booragoon, and Murdoch. It holds a collection of over 300 items and records from Heathcote Reception Home.
For Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, the word Mission has a specific meaning, as a residential settlement or institution. Religious missions for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people existed in many states and territories from the nineteenth century up to the 1980s. On Aboriginal missions, families were forcibly separated by a dormitory system, where…
Child (or young person) ‘in need of care and protection’ was a term introduced into legislation from around the 1950s to describe a child or young person admitted to the ‘care’ of the state. Formerly, the language used was ‘neglected child’. Other common terms were child or young person ‘in need of care’, ‘at risk’…
Adolescent Care refers to models of out-of-home care geared to the needs of young people, including Adolescent Units, Early Adolescent Units, Teenage Units and Adolescent Community Placement. Services and programs specifically for adolescents became more common from the 1980s. Click here to see the full Find & Connect glossary
Lock Hospital was a term to describe institutions for people suffering from suspected venereal disease. Fantome Island, off the Queensland coast near Townsville, was the site of a leprosarium and a lock hospital. Click here to see the full Find & Connect glossary
The Heathcote Collection is a collection of over 300 items relating to Heathcote Reception Home and Heathcote Hospital, held by City of Melville Libraries and Museums. It includes photographs, artefacts (such as medical instruments), newspaper articles, magazines, newsletters, maps and plans, uniforms, oral histories, documents and records (mostly relating to staffing, procedures, and building maintenance)….
Congregate Care was a term used to describe the system in large institutions like orphanages, in which children were housed in dormitories, usually divided by age and gender, under the supervision of rostered staff. Click here to see the full Find & Connect glossary
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