Abercare Family Services was formed in 1981. Its name reflects its connection with the Aberfeldie Baptist Church. Abercare was a provider in temporary foster care in the western suburbs from the early 1980s. In 2009, Abercare Family Services changed its name and became known as Baptcare’s family services division.
Baptist Children’s Homes were a number of family group homes run by Baptcare (formerly known as the Baptist Social Services, and Baptist Community Care) from around 1968 until around 1984. Baptist Community Care (also known as Baptist Social Services) ran 3 family group homes in Melbourne. Westside Children’s Home in a large house in Park…
Baptcare (formerly known as Baptist Community Care) traces its origins back to 1945, when the Victorian Baptist Women’s Association’s fundraising efforts led to the establishment of Strathalan Community, an aged care facility in Macleod. Baptist Community Care became Baptcare in 2006. Baptist Community Care ran Abercare Family Services, which was a temporary care program operating…
The Daughters of Divine Zeal are an international Italian order of Catholic nuns. The Sisters arrived in Richmond, Victoria in 1959 to the parish of St Ignatius, to do apostolic work with Melbourne’s Italian migrants. They ran the Antonian Children’s Home in Richmond from 1959 until it closed in 1979. In 1980 it was converted…
The Ballarat Town and City Mission was founded in 1867. The Ballarat Town and City Mission ran a number of Homes for children and babies, including, from around 1921 until 1974, the Alexandra Babies’ Home. Some records of the Mission and its charitable institutions are held by the Central Highlands Regional Library Corporation. In 1921,…
Families Australia was established in 2001, and is Australia’s peak body dedicated to promoting the needs and interests of families. Families Australia is an independent, not-for-profit organisation which is not aligned to any political party or religious group. Families Australia provides secretariat and support services to the Alliance for Forgotten Australians.
Many congregations of the Presbyterian Church of Australia united with congregations from the Methodist and Congregational Churches to form the Uniting Church in Australia in 1977. However, the Presbyterian Church continued to exist as a separate entity to the Uniting Church from 1977.
The first Methodist Minister to arrive in Australia was Reverend Samuel Leigh who came to New South Wales in 1815. The first Methodist churches were established in Victoria in the early 1850s. The Methodist Church was involved in a number of child welfare institutions in Victoria from the beginning of the twentieth century. The Methodist…
The Anglican Diocese of Melbourne came into being in 1847. Until 1981 the Anglican Church was known as the Church of England. Many institutions for children in Victoria had close links with the Church of England, including the Melbourne Orphan Asylum which had its roots in the St James Visiting Society, formed in 1845. From…
The Canterbury Family Centre came into being in 1977. In May 2000, the new organisation Connections UnitingCare was created with the amalgamation of the Canterbury Family Centre, Copelen and the Wheelers Hill Family Centre. [Taken from the ReConnections and Re-collections document http://www.connections.org.au/pdfs/ReConnections-and-ReCollections.pdf] The Family Centre stood on the old site of the Presbyterian Babies’ Home,…
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