Chesterfield House, Rockingham Youth External Accommodation Project was established in 1983 and over the years has provided emergency accommodation and other support services for six to ten young people aged 13-20 years. Chesterfield House was established and run as a community initiative, supported by the Shire of Rockingham and the departments responsible for child welfare….
The House of Mercy was established in Perth in 1891 as a ‘non-denominational charity for single mothers’. It was run by a private management committee. Women were expected to work in the commercial laundry at the Home, which was funded by these activities and charitable donations. The name was changed to the Alexandra Home for…
Youth Household was established in the Perth city area in 1985. It was run by Mofflyn Child and Family Care Services and provided medium-term supported accommodation to up to five young people aged 16-21 years. Also known as Youth House, the service closed in 1988. Youth Household was established by Mofflyn Child and Family Care…
The Catherine McAuley Centre was run by the Sisters of Mercy from 1971 on the site of the former St Joseph’s Girls’ Orphanage and St Vincent’s Foundling Home in Subiaco. It was named after the founder of the Sisters of Mercy. Children who were wards and also those who were ‘privately placed’ lived there, or…
Youth Care was an accommodation and support program for young people aged 15-25, in up to six houses in the Perth metropolitan area. It was run by Centrecare until 1990 when Youth Care was absorbed into the general placement services run by the Catherine McAuley Centre. Youth Care was established by Centrecare as an accommodation…
Yes! Housing (Youth Externally Supported Housing) is the name that was given in 1997 to Youth Focus, which had been established by Anglicare in 1991. Yes! Housing offered emergency accommodation and housing program for young people aged from 15-17 years in the Perth metropolitan area who were homeless or at risk of homelessness. Supporting young…
Swan Accommodation Service (The Junction) began in 1980 to provide emergency accommodation service for families and single persons, but by 1982 housed only homeless youth. In 1986 the Service offered accommodation at the Snow Bennett Youth Shelter in Dudley Street, Midland. In 2001, the service provided temporary accommodation at its crisis centre and in a…
Pregnancy Help was established by Centrecare in the late 1980s. In 1989 it was described as a supported accommodation service for single, pregnant teenagers, with three houses operating in the Perth metropolitan area, one of which was for crisis care. The service had closed by 1991. Pregnancy Help was established as a program of Centrecare…
The South Perth Refuge was established around 1983 by the Jesus People, who were also known as Perth City Mission and then Mission Australia. The refuge was described in 1983 as providing safe accommodation and support for up to ten young women aged 14-25 years, generally without children, with the length of stay dependent on…
Mission Australia Youth Accommodation and Support Service (YASS) was established in 1991 to provide safe and supported accommodation to young people who were homeless or at imminent risk of homelessness. It remained open in 2013, with accommodation programs for 15-18 year olds. Mission Australia’s Youth Accommodation and Support Service (YASS) was established in 1991, funded…
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