St Joseph’s Cottages were established by the Sisters of St Joseph as cottage care for children who were being prepared for foster care by St Anthony’s Home Croydon and Centacare social workers. There were three cottages, with Sisters of St Joseph serving as house mothers. In 2003 St Anthony’s and St Joseph’s Centre of Care,…
The Lodge Young Women’s Hostel, was run by the Salvation Army at Cambridge Street, Stanmore. It replaced the Girls’ Industrial Home that had operated on the same site. The Lodge was a hostel for girls and young women. It changed its name to Stanmore Children’s Home in 1975, although it appears to have been known…
St Gerard’s was run by the Sisters of St Joseph at St Anthony’s Croydon. It had formerly been St Anne’s Nursery. St Gerard’s was for married women and babies who needed care, treatment and recuperation after birth, and for single mothers and their babies, including those awaiting adoption. It was closed in 1980 and converted…
St Gerard’s [Home] was a home for children and families in crisis that was conducted by Centacare social workers and the Sisters of St Joseph’s from 1980 until 1985. Children and families were referred from the Department of Youth and Community Services’ Montrose Child Protection Unit, and they were cared for at St Gerard’s with…
St Anne’s Nursery was a nursery run by the Sisters of St Joseph at St Anthony’s Croydon. It had 30 cots that held babies waiting for adoption. It was located in the building that had been used as St Anne’s Hospital. In 1963 it was converted to St Gerard’s, a hospital for married and unmarried…
Glenfield Park School is a residential special school opened in 1927 by the Department of Education. It is a boarding school that offers intensive support to students with emotional and behavioural needs.
The Mercy Family Centre was incorporated in 1994. It was formerly the Mercy Family Life Centre, and was built on the grounds of the former Our Lady of Mercy Home at Waitara by the Sisters of Mercy. Its services included emergency accommodation, educational services to families and child care services. In 2001 the Mercy Family…
St Anne’s was a 10-bed maternity hospital for unmarried mothers. It was established by the Society of St Vincent de Paul at St Anthony’s Croydon in 1944, in a cottage beside the Kelly Wing. It was converted to a nursery in 1952.
Beverley Park Estate was a disability institution run by the New South Wales Society for Crippled Children. It officially opened in 1938 on a 30 acre property as a holiday and respite home. From the early 1940s Beverley Park was also operating as a children’s orthopaedic hospital, and in 1942 a school was opened on…
The Margaret Reid Orthopaedic Hospital for Crippled Children opened in 1937 at St Ives. It was a disability institution, a convalescent hospital and offered outpatients services. It the only specialist orthopaedic children’s hospital in Australia and took children from all over the country and Pacific nations. It closed in 1981. Margaret Reid Orthopaedic Hospital for…
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