The Adelaide Kids’ Shelter opened in North Adelaide in 1976. Run by a community based committee, the shelter provided accommodation mainly for up to five adolescent girls aged between 12 and 18. It took in a small number of boys. At the end of 1982 the shelter relocated to Kilkenny. The exact closing date for…
The Norwood Youth Shelter was the new name for the Contact and Exchange Centre when it moved to Norwood in 1978. The independently run shelter provided support and long term accommodation for young people coming out of institutional care. Records suggest that the Shelter closed in the 1980s. The Norwood Youth Shelter was the new…
The Contact and Exchange Centre opened in November 1975 at Byron Place in Adelaide. It was established and run by an independent group of social workers and social work students from the South Australian Institute of Technology. It initially provided short term accommodation for homeless young people.. The Centre moved to Norwood in 1978 and…
The Elizabeth Grace Community Unit was established by the government in North Adelaide in 1975. It was run as an non-secure open hostel for girls from Vaughan House who were working in the community. The hostel had originally been created as a part of Vaughan House as an open hostel section called the Elizabeth Grace…
The Loxton Hostel was established by the Mentally Retarded Children’s Association in 1977 in Loxton. The Hostel provided single rooms for more than 20 people. The majority of residents came from the Riverland area and lived at the Hostel in order to attend the Loxton Workshop which had been established in 1974. The Loxton Hostel…
The Port Pirie Hostel was opened by the Mentally Retarded Children’s Association in 1974 on Balmoral Road in Pot Pirie. It provided accommodation for people with intellectual disabilities who were attending the Port Pirie Workshop. The Workshop provided training and employment for residents. Port Pirie Hostel was one of a number of Hostels established by…
Carinya Hostel was established by the Mentally Retarded Children’s Association in 1973 in Murray Bridge. It provided week day hostel accommodation for school aged children from country areas who were attending the Murray Bridge Special School. The children in the hostel were cared for by house parents. In 1990 the Hostel moved to a smaller…
Birralee Hostel was established as a purpose-built residential care facility by the Mentally Retarded Children’s Association in Berri in 1971. It provided week day accommodation for children from surrounding areas attending the Berri Special School. In 1998, as a result of the decline in demand for accommodation for children, Birralee Hostel changed its purpose and…
Cooinda Hostel was established by the Mentally Retarded Children’s Association in Derrington street, Mount Gambier in 1969. It provided hostel style accommodation on week days for school aged children from country areas who were attending the Mount Gambier Special School. It was the first Hostel to be established in a country region. During the 1990s…
Wentworth House was opened by the Legacy Club of Adelaide at Woodville in 1945. It provided accommodation for the children of deceased servicemen who were attending school and apprenticeships in the city. In 1946 it could accommodate 13 children and 2 staff. A second Legacy Hostel, known as Waverley House, opened in Adelaide in 1946….
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