The Young Single Women’s Refuge was established in Mount Lawley around 1980 by The Collective. It was a 24-hour refuge service, located in a three-bedroom house. Young women were admitted. The service closed in 1991. The Young Single Women’s Refuge was established in a three-bedroom house in Mount Lawley in the early 1980s by The…
StreetsYde, an inner-city emergency accommodation program for young people aged 12-25 years, was established in 1989 by the YMCA Perth. From that time StreetsYde provided emergency and short term accommodation and support to young people in crisis. The emergency accommodation program closed on 31 March 2014. StreetsYde was established by the YMCA Perth in 1989…
Victoria Park Youth Accommodation (VPYA) began in 1983 to provide crisis accommodation for young people aged 18-25 years. It was privately run by a management committee. By 1995 the service had three houses for up to 15 young people aged 12-25 years, offering medium to long-term accommodation. In 2001, the service extended to young people…
TINOCA was established in 1988 to provide crisis accommodation for youth in the northern suburbs of the Perth metropolitan area. Throughout it’s history it has been managed by a private management committee. TINOCA (Teenagers in need of crisis accommodation) is run by a private committee of management. It opened on 27 March 1988 with funding…
Langford Youth Accommodation Service began around 1986 in Thornlie, with a hostel called Ravenhill providing accommodation for young people aged 15-18 years. The service was run by a private committee of management. It closed in 2001. The Langford Youth Accommodation Service began around 1986 and by 1991 was receiving funding from the Youth Supported Accommodation…
The Prom Hostel was established in 1986 in Dianella to provide medium to long term accommodation for young women up to 18 years old. It was run by a private management committee. The Prom, as it was known, closed in 1992. The Prom Hostel began in 1986 as part of the Youth Supported Accommodation Program,…
PICYS (Perth Inner City Youth Service) Household Network was established in 1980 by a group of agencies, primarily churches. It first offered emergency accommodation for adolesents at ‘The Cave’ and ‘Streetwork’. By 1995 PICYS was offering medium and long term accommodation to young people who were homeless or in crisis. PICYS (Perth Inner City Youth…
Peedamulla Station was used for employment and training placements for Indigenous youth from at least 1978. Peedamulla Station is mentioned in government child welfare records as a location where young Indigenous people were placed from at least 1978. Indigenous youth in the youth justice system were placed at Peedamulla for employment and training, according to…
Karratha Youth Housing began in 1987 to provide alternative accommodation for youth in the Karratha region. In 1995, known as Karratha Youth Development Service, it offered emergency accommodation for up to eight young people. In 2001, known as Karratha Youth Housing Project Inc (KYHP), it provided supported accommodation to young people who were homeless, at…
Great Mates – Armadale Youth Crisis Accommodation began in 2003 to provide crisis and transitional accommodation to local youth who were homeless or at imminent risk of homelessness. It is thought to have closed around 2007. Great Mates – Armadale Youth Crisis Accommodation began as a funded program of the Commonwealth/State funded Supported Accommodation Assistance…
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