St John’s Home for Boys was established in Canterbury in the mansion known as ‘Shrublands’. It formally opened in November 1924. In 1926, boys from the former St Martin’s Home in Auburn, together with its timber building, relocated to St John’s in Canterbury. St John’s Home accommodated boys aged between 5 and 14. By 1958,…
Southbridge Adolescent Services was run by the Mission to the Streets and Lanes.
During the 1990s, the Mission to the Streets and Lanes operated from Napier Street, Fitzroy. Services provided included family counselling and support, foster care and accommodation for young women.
St David’s Hostel was established in around 1973 by the Mission to the Streets and Lanes on St David’s Street, Fitzroy. It first provided accommodation for young women on their release from prison, but by 1975 it housed teenagers making the transition from Unit 64 (Brighton Children’s Home) to more independent living. In the 1990s,…
The House of Mercy, in Cheltenham, was opened in 1892. It was run by the Mission to the Streets and Lanes as a home for ‘fallen and friendless women’. The women in charge of the House of Mercy were to become known as the Community of the Holy Name. The House of Mercy ceased providing…
The Moira Private Hospital in Sandringham was run by the Mission to the Streets and Lanes. It provided care to infants and children with developmental disabilities.
The Church of England Homes for Children was established in Wilson Street, Brighton, in 1894 by the Mission to the Streets and Lanes to care for neglected children. In 1916, the property next door was purchased, and the Home expanded to include a babies’ Home for children over one. In 1927 the babies’ Home moved…
‘Unit 64’ came into being in 1975 when the Mission to the Streets and Lanes regrouped its former Homes for Children and Family Counselling Service in Brighton. The Mission housed children and adolescents in two cottages: Unit 64 (64 Wilson Street), and St Faith’s (62 Wilson Street), and also provided family rehabilitation services out of…
The Homes for Children and Family Counselling Service (also known as the Brighton Family Centre) was the new name given in 1968 to the Mission to the Streets and Lanes’ children’s homes in Wilson Street, Brighton. It accommodated children and young people in ‘family group home’ units, and delivered preventive services including family counselling. In…
The Mission to the Streets and Lanes commenced in 1886 providing food, shelter and pastoral care to women and children in inner-city Melbourne. Its deaconesses were to ‘visit in the lanes and courts and bring the message of the Gospel to the poor and fallen and by the force of their sisterly sympathy, compel the…
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