Windsor Farm Home for Boys was set up by the Anglican Homes for Children Association in 1923. It was located at Freeman’s Reach and was a training farm for older boys from Milleewa and other children’s homes. It held 15 boys, who entered the home at 13 or 14 years of age and stayed until…
The Church Missionary Society Home for Half-Castes at Mulgoa was established in 1942. It housed Aboriginal children who had been evacuated under military orders by the Commonwealth Department of Native Affairs. They were mainly from South Australia, the Northern Territory and Queensland, though some were from New South Wales. They were aged 1 to 14…
The Anglican Homes for Children Association operated Milleewa Home for Boys in Ashfield and the Windsor Farm Home for Boys at Freeman’s Reach. The Anglican Homes for Children Association is thought to have ended in about 1966, when Milleewa was handed to the Anglican Home Mission Society. The Anglican Homes for Children Association wrote in…
Milleewa was a boys’ home that was established by the Anglican Homes for Children Association in 1919. It was located in Ashfield and housed approximately 20 boys aged from five to 14 who were ‘without homes or not under parental control’. For six months during World War II the Church Mission Society leased a portion…
Anglican Deaconess Ministries Ltd is the modern name of the Church of England Deaconess Institution, a women’s religious order that ran children’s homes in Sydney. Anglican Deaconess Ministries Ltd holds records relating to the Deaconess Children’s Home and Domestic Training School, in Balmain, Ashfield and Annandale; Lisgar Training Service for Domestic Servants; Lisgar Children’s Home,…
The Deaconess Children’s Home and Domestic Training School was a children’s home and training home for girls that was run by the Church of England Deaconess Institution. It operated in Ashfield (1893-1894), and on various site in Balmain (1895-1914). From 1900 The Deaconess Children’s Home was co-located with Lisgar Training Home for Domestic Servants on…
St Saviour’s Cottage Home formerly known as St Saviour’s Children’s Home was established in 1982 following funding provided by the State Government through the Department of Community Services’ Alternate Care and Accommodation. In time, this became known as the Adolescent Program which operated at 134 Cowper Street until 1994.
The Adolescent Program, formerly run under the name of St Saviour’s Cottage Home, operated at Goulburn until 1994. This service implemented individual care programs for children and young people with a goal of restoration and reconciliation with families as the option of first choice. The Program changed from a residential model in 1995 and in…
The Anglican Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn (previously known as the Church of England Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn) was first established as a separate diocese (the Diocese of Goulburn, New South Wales) in 1863. As the new city of Canberra developed in the early twentieth century, the Diocese of Goulburn also became responsible for…
St Saviour’s Neighbourhood Centre, in Goulburn, was established in 1980. From 1994 it provided long term care for up to 12 State wards with high support needs. St Saviour’s was an agency of Anglicare and part of the Anglican Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn. In 2013 St Saviour’s is part of Anglicare NSW South, NSW…
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