Leith House was established around 1960 in Pennant Hills as a children’s home by the Baptist Homes Trust. In 1986 Baptist Homes Trust changed its name to Baptist Community Services. Leith House operated as a medium to long term supported care facility for youth aged 14 to 18. Leith House closed on 30th September 2013.
New South Wales Baptist Homes Trust was established in 1944 to provide services to the aged and children. The Trust ran Leith House, Ruhamah, Carisbrook, Thorington and Karingal Children’s Home. In 1986, its name was changed to Baptist Community Services to capture the organisation’s expanding ministry.
The Blue Ribbon Gospel Army was established by Sydney philanthropist and evangelist George Edward Ardill in 1882. It provided a range of services to the destitute of the city, including the Open All Night Refuge, the Jubilee Home for Domestic Servants and the Home of Hope for Friendless and Fallen Women. It seems that Ardill…
Pathways Adolescent Unit at Wyong commenced in February 1991 and the first resident arrived in April of the same year. Pathways runs an Intervention Support Program for residential care and support clients living in the community. In 2008 Pathways Adolescent Unit became Pathways Out of Home Care Youth Accommodation Service.
Carisbrook, in Auburn, was run by the Baptist Homes Trust. It was the second AS White Children’s Home and was officially opened on 7 December 1975 by Miss Dorothy White. It was a children’s home until 1989, when the child care programs were reassessed. Carisbrook then became a home for young people aged twelve to…
Kings Langley Substitute Care for Adolescents was a children’s home for teenagers, situated at Kings Langley (near Blacktown). It commenced in November 1994 and the first resident arrived in December 1994. Kings Langley Substitute Care for Adolescents closed around 2004.
Thorington, the first of the Baptist Trust’s AS White Homes for Children, was located at Corrimal, near Wollongong. It was opened on 26 May 1973 by Mr WC Langshaw, Under Secretary of the New South Wales Department of Child Welfare and Social Services. Thorington closed as a children’s home in December 1981.
Karingal Children’s Home, run by the Baptist Homes Trust, was officially opened at Mosman on 24 November 1956 by the Hon. F.H. Hawkins, MLA, Minister for Child Welfare and Social Services. The home provided accommodation for boys under the age of seven, and girls. On 24 April 1986 the home transferred to 27 Alan Avenue,…
Ruhamah, run by the Baptist Homes Trust, was a children’s Home established in May 1959 at South Hurstville for boys. Ruhamah was officially opened on 15 August 1959 and accomodated ten boys aged two to thirteen. Laterly, younger boys were housed at Karingal Children’s Home with Ruhamah accomodating boys over seven. In November 1975 the…
Baptist Community Services was established in 1986. It was a non-profit corporation limited by guarantee and was an agency of the Baptist Union of New South Wales. Previously, it was known as New South Wales Baptist Homes Trust. Baptist Community Services operated a number of child and youth programs including Carisbrook, Kings Langley Substitute Care…
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