Narwee Family Group Home, run by the Salvation Army, was opened in 1987 at Grove Avenue, Narwee. The first residents were girls transferred from Stanmore Children’s Home but later residents included boys. It closed in January 1996.
Algate House was opened as a boys’ home by the Salvation Army in Lane Street, Broken Hill in 1968. It was converted to a family group home consisting of three residences, each supervised by a house parent, though it retained one name. The home closed on 30 June 1996. According to staff members from the…
Dulwich Hill Family Group Home was opened in 1989 at Wardell Road in Dulwich Hill. The first residents were boys who were transferred from the Marrickville Children’s Residence. A number of the children who lived here also spent some time in care at the Stanmore Children’s Home and/or the Earlwood Family Group Home.
Gill Memorial Family Group Home was established in 1980 at Eldon Street, Goulburn. In 1983 it moved to Mary Street, Goulburn. The home closed on 29 December 1995.
New Anchor was a group home established in Jannali around 1990 by the Presbyterian Social Services Department. It was a supported family home with places available for six 12 to 16 year olds. It closed around 1999.
The Katie Julia Thompson Memorial Home was opened in May 1968, as part of the Church of England Children’s Homes, Burwood. Reflecting a change in attitudes towards child care, the home evolved into a family group home in the late 1970s. In the 1980s Church of England Homes Burwood changed their name to the Weldon…
Trigg Hostel was established by the Home Mission Society of the Anglican Diocese of Sydney in 1979 in Granville. It replaced the Trigg Working Boys Hostel that had previously been located as part of the Church of England Boys’ Home, and briefly on the site of the Church of England Girls’ Home in Molly-Trigg Cottage…
Marella Aboriginal Temporary Care, was a programme for Aboriginal children run by Church of England Homes on behalf of the Anglican Diocese of Sydney. Marella Aboriginal Temporary Care was a family group home, located in Marrickville and staffed by Aboriginal people. It opened in 1979 and closed in the late 1990s. There was a second…
Crecy Group Home was situated at Eastwood from around 1971 until around 1990. It was run by the Church of England (Anglican) Diocese of Sydney as a children’s home.
Kingsleigh Group Home was established by Church of England Homes in St Ives in 1980. It moved to a new location in Blacktown around 1984, at a time when the Anglican Home Mission Society was focusing its welfare programs in the Western Sydney area. Kingsleigh Group Home was a temporary accommodation service, providing crisis care…
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