Westwood, at Bowral, was a residential education centre for girls over sixteen years old with mild intellectual disabilities that opened in 1965. It was run by the Methodist Department of Christian Citizenship, and commenced operation in April 1965 with an initial intake of nine girls. By 1968 Westwood held up to 90 girls and women….
Heighway House was a Methodist Church project that provided hostels for adolescent girls. The first hostel was established in 1960 in Drummoyne and provided accommodation for seven girls aged 15 to 18. It then moved to Duffy Avenue, Thornleigh and became a hostel for 12 working age girls. In 1969 Bailey Cottage, in Coogee, was…
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…
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