Marian Lodge Training Centre was established by the St John of God Brothers. It was adjacent to St John Of God Training Centre in Cheltenham. Marian Lodge catered for boys described as having moderate intellectual disabilities and being unable to follow a special schooling program, but able to benefit from other training.
Sutherland Homes established the Diamond Valley Youth Hostel in 1979. It offered accommodation for young people making the transition from Sutherland Homes for Children into the world outside. The Hostel moved to Greensborough in 1986, and the former hostel was remodelled as a residential unit. Sutherland Homes established the Diamond Valley Youth Hostel in 1979…
St Faith’s was established by the Mission to the Streets and Lanes in 1975. It was one of two cottages (the other was Unit 64) on Wilson Street, Brighton. The cottages provided specialist temporary residential care to children and adolescents. St Faith’s and Unit 64 were closed in 1984. In 1975, the Mission to the…
The Yarra View Training Farm, located in Lilydale, was established by the St John of God Brothers in 1957. It was usually staffed by about seven Brothers and accommodated up to 90 youths, aged over 16. The institutions for children run by the St John of God Brothers in Victoria were all described as being…
Christian Brethren Family Care came into being in 1968. From 1969, it ran Bethany family group home in Box Hill North. In the late 1970s, Christian Brethren Family Care closed the family group home and concentrated on its Temporary Emergency Care program. In 2010, the organisation Christian Brethren Family Care Inc. operates as Temcare, providing…
The Churinga Special Residential School, located in Greensborough, was established by the St John of God Brothers in 1967. It housed 60 Catholic and Protestant boys (aged 7 to 16) and, in later years, some girls. It was an institution for children deemed to have an intellectual or developmental disability. From 1987, Churinga was registered…
The Beth-el Children’s Home was established in Caulfield, in 1963 and later also occupied sites in Balwyn and Canterbury. The Home was operated by a nursing sister. From 1978 the Home did not house any wards of state. It continued to receive private placements until at least 1983. The Beth-el Children’s Home was established in…
The Tweddle Hospital for Babies and School of Mothercraft, in Footscray, opened in 1920. In the 1960s, Tweddle was classified as an approved children’s home. Tweddle provided temporary care for babies and toddlers awaiting foster care or adoption, including some wards of state. It also provided short term care for babies whose mother was ill…
The Victorian School for Deaf Children was the new name given in 1949 to the former Victorian Deaf and Dumb Institution. By the 1970s the School had 180 pupils of which 40 were in residence. As the School closed on weekends, any children not able to go to their family homes were placed at family…
The Heather Anderson Home was established by Miss Heather Anderson of Moonee Ponds in around 1967. It functioned somewhere between a private foster home and a children’s home and accommodated four children (two sibling groups). In 1973 these children were transferred to other placements and the Home ceased to function. In 1967 Miss Heather Anderson…
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