The Mentally Retarded Persons’ Association was founded in 1963 by Harold Garner, a well known Northern Territory educationalist. The Association lobbied the Northern Territory Education Department to establish a school for children with intellectual disabilities. This school was taken over by the Education Department in 1965. The Association then opened a pre-school in 1967. Supported…
Carpentaria Disabilty Services, also known as Carpentaria Community Services, was the new name given to the Harry Giese Centre around 1996. It provided 24 hour supported living services and respite care for people with disabilities including children. It was still operating in 2018.
The Harry Giese Centre in Darwin opened in 1977. It was run by the Northern Territory Spastics Association (Inc), formerly the Darwin and Districts Spastics Paralysis Association, and provided assessment, treatment and residential care for people with disabilities including children. By 1985 it was providing services to one third of the young children with disabilities…
The Diocese of Northern Territory was established by the Anglican Church of Australia in 1968. It replaced the Diocese of Carpentaria in the Northern Territory. It is responsible for the ministry of the Anglican Church across the whole of the Northern Territory.
The Anglican Diocese of Carpentaria was established in 1900 with the aim to spread the work of the Anglican Church into Northern Australia. With its cathedral on Thursday Island, the Diocese covered northern Queensland and the Northern Territory. It operated as a mission diocese, working towards the evangelisation of Aboriginal people and providing a ministry…
Somerville Community Services Incorporated was the new name for Somerville Homes Incorporated from 1982. The organisation ran a number of residential care facilities in the Darwin area. In 2014, Somerville Community Services continues to operate as a non-government, not for profit, youth, family and community welfare organisation. Although it has links with the Uniting Church…
The Alice Springs Lutheran Archives is housed in the former Lutheran Church Building in Alice Springs. The Archives holds records relating to the history of the Lutheran Mission Block and Lutheran cottages on that site. These include photographs, oral history recordings, operational documents, church bulletins and lists of residents and their house parents. Volunteers are…
The Bindi Centre was opened in Alice Springs in 1976 as an activity centre for young people with intellectual disabilities from throughout the Northern Territory. In the 1980s the Bindi Centre extended its services to provide supported accommodation in two residential units. The Bindi Centre then became part of a larger program known as Central…
The Young Women’s Christian Association, YWCA, was established in Darwin in 1969. It became an incorporated body in 1977. The focus of the organisation was to provide accommodation for young people in need of shelter. The YWCA ran the Darwin Youth Refuge from 1978.
The United Church in North Australia had its roots in a multi-denominational congregation based in Darwin from 1946. In 1956 members of the Congregational, Methodist and Presbyterian churches moved to a shared church in Smith Street, Darwin and formed a United congregation. After their building was bombed during World War II, a new church was…
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