Bailey Cottage, in Carr Street Coogee, was bought in 1969 by the Youth Welfare Association of Australia and given to the Methodist Church’s Heighway House Project. It housed some of the Hopewood ‘children’, who were nearing adulthood, as well as state wards and children in need of intensive counselling and support with life skills. It…
The Tahmoor Children’s Home, at Tahmoor, was established by members of the Vaucluse Congregational Church in 1941. It began as a holiday home then was converted to permanent or temporary care for up to 20 boys and girls from 5 to 15 years who were unable to live with their families. Tahmoor Children’s Home appears…
St Andrew’s Home was a boys’ home set up by the Presbyterian Social Services Department around 1943. Originally located at Manly, it was transferred to a 400 acre farm property at Leppington, on the Hume Highway south of Liverpool in around 1962. It catered for twenty boys aged ten to fifteen years. St Andrew’s residents…
Earlwood Family Group Home was opened in 1989 at Sutton Avenue, Earlwood. Most of the residents were only short-term, and a number of them were transferred to one of the other family group homes which the Salvation Army operated in Sydney (Dulwich Hill or Narwee), or to the foster care program. It closed in June…
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.
Bexley Boys’ Home was a Salvation Army home that was located on the corner of Kingsland Road and Barnsbury Grove at Bexley North. It commenced as a Probationary Home for Boys in 1915, taking boys referred from the courts. It became a boys’ home in 1931. It was renamed Kolling Memorial Boys’ Home in 1967…
Marrickville Children’s Residence was a Salvation Army children’s home at George Street, Marrickville. When Bexley Boys’ Home closed, the boys were transferred to this this home. Marrickville Children’s Residence closed in 1982 and the children were transferred to Dulwich Hill Family Group Home. The building occupied by Marrickville Children’s Residence was the same building that…
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.
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