The Country Women’s Association of Western Australia (CWA) was established in Nungarin in 1924 to ‘help women in isolated communities and to provide a voice to Government to seek solutions to the difficulties facing families in such areas’. During the twentieth century, the CWA set up holiday homes, hostels for country students, and participated actively…
The Catholic Child Welfare Council was founded in 1929 in Britain. When it appeared before the British Parliament’s Inquiry into the Welfare of Former British Child Migrants it was the peak agency for Catholic welfare agencies. In 1994, the CCWC created a Child Migrant Sub-Committee to collate the records and develop a database of children…
‘CBERSS’ (Christian Brothers Ex-Residents and Students Services) was established in 1995. It was set up as an independent agency to advocate for and provide a range of services to people who had been in Christian Brothers’ institutions or schools as children and who had suffered in some way from that experience. Although originally set up…
Victims of Institutionalised Cruelty Exploitation and Supporters, commonly called, VOICES, was set up by Bruce Blyth in 1991 to bring abuses suffered in Christian Brothers institutions in Western Australia to the public’s attention and to advocate for a ‘judicial inquiry’. [From the National Library’s Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants oral history project] Victims of…
Adoption Jigsaw provides information and services to people who have been involved in adoption. The organisation was founded in 1978 ‘for the purpose of lobbying for legislative change and more openness in adoption.’ Since 1979, Adoption Jigsaw has had a confidential ‘Contact Register’ for people wishing to make contact with other parties to the adoption…
The Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia (Inc.), better known as ALSWA, has been operating in WA for over thirty years. The ALS ‘provides legal representation and support services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Western Australia, including advocating in policy and law reform in submissions, at conferences and in the media.’
Adults Surviving Child Abuse (ASCA) was established in 1995 as ‘an Australian charity dedicated to the health and wellbeing of adult survivors of all forms of child abuse and neglect.’ The organisation provided advocacy services, support, information and referrals to survivors of all forms of child abuse and neglect. It became the Blue Knot Foundation…
CBERS Consultancy provided family tracing, counselling and advocacy for former residents and students of Christian Brothers institutions and former residents of institutions operated by the Sisters of Mercy and the Sisters of Nazareth. Previously it was CBERS Services which ceased operation in December 2005. CBERS Consultancy was located in Fremantle and began in January 2006….
FACT (Forgotten Australians Coming Together) is a Western Australian representative body for those who spent part of their childhood in out-of-home ‘care’, including former child migrants from the UK and Malta, and Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian-born care leavers. Laurie Humphreys, a former child migrant, was the inaugural Chairman of FACT (Forgotten Australians Coming Together), formed…
The Child Migrants Trust (CMT) was established in 1987 by English social worker Margaret Humphreys to address the issues surrounding the deportation of children from Britain, and to offer to former child migrants and their families services including counselling, support for family reunions, and family research. Since 2010, the CMT has administered the UK government-funded…
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