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…
The Uniting Church in Australia was inaugurated in 1977, following the union of members of the Methodist Church, the Congregational Church and some congregations of the Presbyterian Church from all states and territories. A number of welfare programmes linked with the member churches are now connected with the Uniting Church in Australia.
Cornerstone was a children’s home run by Presbyterian Social Services that opened around 1990. It provided supported semi-independent living for six youths aged 16 to 18. Cornerstone closed around 2010.
New Anchor was a group home established in Jannali around 1990 by the Presbyterian Social Services Department. It was a supported family home with places available for six 12 to 16 year olds. It closed around 1999.
Presbyterian Social Services Child and Family Programme auspiced three medium to long term youth accommodation programs in Sydney. These were Kyle Williams Home at 52 Waratah Street, Blakehurst, New Anchor home at 79 Sutherland Road, Jannali, and Cornerstone at 20 Wrentmore Street, Fairfield. By 2010, all youth accommodation services had closed. By the mid 2010s,…
St Saviour’s Cottage Home formerly known as St Saviour’s Children’s Home was established in 1982 following funding provided by the State Government through the Department of Community Services’ Alternate Care and Accommodation. In time, this became known as the Adolescent Program which operated at 134 Cowper Street until 1994.
St Saviour’s Neighbourhood Centre, in Goulburn, was established in 1980. From 1994 it provided long term care for up to 12 State wards with high support needs. St Saviour’s was an agency of Anglicare and part of the Anglican Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn. In 2013 St Saviour’s is part of Anglicare NSW South, NSW…
St Saviour’s Children’s Home was established in 1929 in the Cathedral Parish of St Saviour’s Goulburn, operated initially by the Sisters of the Holy Cross. In 1980, St Saviour’s Neighbourhood Centre was established. Substitute care continued in the St Saviour’s Children’s Home on a reduced scale until 1982 when the home closed. The Cathedral Parish…
The North Coast Children’s Home was established in Lismore as a ‘district home’ for orphan and neglected children in April 1920, by the Vicar of St Andrew’s and the Church of England. It ran in rental houses and private homes until 1936, when the committee bought an old police station, next to St Andrews’ Anglican…
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