The Croagh Patrick Orphanage was a boys’ home in Orange that was run by the Bathurst Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy. Previously, it was known as the Croagh Patrick Home, run by the Daughters of Charity from 1928 until 1969. It cared for boys aged three to twelve years and after the closure of…
Kendall Grange, at The Bluff in Morisset Park in the Hunter Region, was established by the Brothers of St John of God in 1948 as a residential school for intellectually disabled boys. It began with 30 boys from Westmead Home, aged six to 16. In 1980 Kendall Grange changed to a residential school for boys…
The Sherbrook Residential Care Unit provides supported accommodation for children aged 12 to 18 years. In 1991 it operated at Hornsby (in Sydney’s north), but since August 1992 it has been located in Asquith.
Murray-Dwyer Boys’ Home (Murray-Dwyer Orphanage) was established in 1933 by the Catholic Diocese of Maitland at Tourle Street, Mayfield West (Newcastle). It was conducted by the Daughters of Charity. It cared for boys between the ages of 6 and 16 years including 30 child migrant boys from the United Kingdom who were settled in Australia….
The Bishop Murray Memorial Home at Campbells Hill, near Maitland, was more commonly known as Monte Pio Orphanage. The Home was established on the property of the Catholic Bishop of Maitland 1910 by the Sisters of Mercy. It was for girls aged from birth to sixteen years. From 1942 until 1945 Murray-Dwyer Boys’ Home shared…
Pathways Adolescent Unit at Wyong commenced in February 1991 and the first resident arrived in April of the same year. Pathways runs an Intervention Support Program for residential care and support clients living in the community. In 2008 Pathways Adolescent Unit became Pathways Out of Home Care Youth Accommodation Service.
Thorington, the first of the Baptist Trust’s AS White Homes for Children, was located at Corrimal, near Wollongong. It was opened on 26 May 1973 by Mr WC Langshaw, Under Secretary of the New South Wales Department of Child Welfare and Social Services. Thorington closed as a children’s home in December 1981.
Carisbrook, in Auburn, was run by the Baptist Homes Trust. It was the second AS White Children’s Home and was officially opened on 7 December 1975 by Miss Dorothy White. It was a children’s home until 1989, when the child care programs were reassessed. Carisbrook then became a home for young people aged twelve to…
Kings Langley Substitute Care for Adolescents was a children’s home for teenagers, situated at Kings Langley (near Blacktown). It commenced in November 1994 and the first resident arrived in December 1994. Kings Langley Substitute Care for Adolescents closed around 2004.
Karingal Children’s Home, run by the Baptist Homes Trust, was officially opened at Mosman on 24 November 1956 by the Hon. F.H. Hawkins, MLA, Minister for Child Welfare and Social Services. The home provided accommodation for boys under the age of seven, and girls. On 24 April 1986 the home transferred to 27 Alan Avenue,…
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