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Anglicare Fostering Futures

Fostering Futures was established by AnglicareWA in 2010 to continue Teenshare, and provide emergency, medium and long-term foster placements for young people aged 10 to 17 years. Fostering Futures continued in 2014 as a 24-hour per day, seven days per week service of AnglicareWA. The program ended in June 2017, with the Department of Child…

Anglicare Homesharers

Anglicare’s Homesharers was a fostercare placement program, established in 1982. It was a community based scheme in which people in the local community provided medium to long term accommodation to young people. From 1988, the Anglicare Emergency Foster Care Scheme and Anglicare Homesharers programs ran concurrently and placed children into care with various families in…

Anglicare Emergency Foster Care Scheme

Anglicare ‘Emergency Foster Care Scheme’ was a fostercare placement program established in 1989 to provide crisis and/or emergency accommodation for young people for up to 28 days. The program ceased in 1992 and was continued by Anglicare’s Teenshare program. From 1989 until 1992, Anglicare ran an Emergency Foster Care Scheme in the metropolitan area placing…

Police Department, State of Tasmania

The Police Department, which had offices in Liverpool Street, Hobart, was established in 1898 by the Police Regulation Act. In 2004, the Police Department became Tasmania Police. The Police Department was the first police force in Tasmania to be run by the state government. The Commissioner of Police had overall management of the Police Department….

Kennerley Children’s Home

Kennerley Children’s Home, in Glenorchy, replaced Kennerley Boys’ Home in 1969. It was run by a volunteer board. The Home provided cottage accommodation to small groups of children and young people. In 2018, it is still operating. Kennerley Boys’ Home had been set up in 1869 by a Deed of Gift from Alfred Kennerley. The…

Petford Training Farm

Petford Training Farm, Petford, was initially privately funded by Geoff Guest. It opened in 1978 and in August 1983, the Petford Training Farm Aboriginal Corporation was licensed as a foster home. Funding for Petford Training Farm as a residential facility ceased in March 1999. The Petford Training Farm operated as a camp for troubled indigenous…

Bethcar Children’s Home

Bethcar Children’s Home was a state-run foster care facility, located near Brewarrina. Bethcar was established in 1969, and was run by the Department of Youth and Community Services (which had assumed responsibility for Aboriginal children in 1969). In 1986 Bethcar moved from Brewarrina to Orange. Bethcar closed in 1989. In his poem “Mission Breed”, David…

CatholicCare, Diocese of Broken Bay

The CatholicCare Diocese of Broken Bay is the new name for Centacare Diocese of Broken Bay. The name change occurred in late 2013. CatholicCare Broken Bay provides social services from Willoughby in northern Sydney up to Woy Woy on the Central Coast. CatholicCare Broken Bay provides foster care and out-of-home care residential services for the…

Phillips Cottage

Phillips Cottage was a foster home set up by the United Protestant Association at Maitland. The UPA had intended to open a family group home at Maitland, but it was not required. It opened as Special Projects of the UPA then became a foster home for a family of three children and was named Phillips…

Child and Adolescent Specialist Programs and Accommodation

Child and Adolescent Specialist Programs and Accommodation (CASPA) was the name chosen by the North Coast Children’s Home Inc in 2000. In 2013 CASPA, which was linked with Anglicare, provided residential and outreach programmes for children and young people in out-of-home care, foster care, disability care and mental health. By the early twentieth century the…