Temporary Family Care is a crisis and respite foster program run as part of Dr Barnardos in Australia. This program opened at the Waverley Centre in 1978; Auburn in 1984, Penrith in 1989 and Canberra and Illawarra in 1990.
Barnardos Australia was the new name given to Dr Barnardos in Australia around 1995. Barnardos Australia offers a range of services to children and families across New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory. These include accommodation, childcare, support programs, and permanency programs for out-of-home care including adoption, adolescent services, kinship care and foster care….
Great Lakes/Manning ACS is a New South Wales Aboriginal Children’s Services organisation, based at Taree. It was funded by the New South Wales Department of Community Services until 2008. In 2011 it was still active.
Koolyangarra Fostering Agency (Nowra) is a New South Wales Aboriginal Children’s Services organisation funded by the New South Wales Department of Community Services.
Hunter ACS was a New South Wales Aboriginal Children’s Services organisation that began in Newcastle in 1984 as a sub-project of the Aboriginal Legal Service, who had identified a need for an Aboriginal service to take responsibility for fostering Aboriginal children of the Hunter with Aboriginal families. By August 2013 it had closed. Hunter Aboriginal…
Wagga Wagga ACS is a New South Wales Aboriginal Children’s Services organisation. It was funded by the New South Wales Department of Community Services until 2008. It was active in 2012.
St Marys ACS is a New South Wales Aboriginal Children’s Services organisation funded by the New South Wales Department of Community Services until 2008. In 2012 it appeared to be active.
Cowra ACS was a New South Wales Aboriginal Children’s Services organisation. It was funded by the New South Wales Government until 2008. It was based at Erambie, the old Aborigines Welfare Board Station.
New South Wales Aboriginal Children’s Services (ACS) provides a range of child welfare and family support services. The ACS was originally funded by Australian Catholic Relief. It was then funded by the New South Wales Government, although funding was stopped in 2008. The ACS agencies try to place Aboriginal children in culturally and socially appropriate…
Dalmar began its life as the Central Mission Home for neglected children in Woolloomooloo. The Home moved to Croydon in 1900, then changed its name to Dalmar. In 1923 Dalmar moved to Carlingford where a babies home and cottages were established. Dalmar has been known by many names over time, reflecting shifts in the style…
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