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Salvation Army Youth Refuge, Warilla

The Salvation Army Youth Refuge, Warilla was a Salvation Army refuge for young people located at Bucknell Street in Warilla. It opened in 1983 and closed in 1991.

Oasis Youth Care Centre

Oasis Youth Care Centre was a Salvation Army hostel for homeless girls that was located in Surry Hills. It opened in 1991 and closed in 1994, when it became part of Oasis Youth Support Services.

La Perouse Women’s and Children’s Home

The La Perouse Women’s and Children’s Home was a Salvation Army refuge for women and children that was established at the Old Cable Station at La Perouse in 1944. It closed in 1987. According to the New South Wales Migration Heritage Centre, the La Perouse Women’s and Children’s Home was unique: Until the late 1970s,…

John Irwin Lodge

John Irwin Lodge was a Salvation Army hostel for homeless youth located in Surry Hills. It opened in 1980 and closed in 1993 when it was absorbed into Oasis Youth Services.

Stanmore Girls’ Industrial Home

The Girls’ Industrial Home at Stanmore was run by the Salvation Army at 97 Cambridge Street, Stanmore, on the same site as the Stanmore Rescue Home. The Girls’ Industrial Home was an industrial school for girls who had been through police courts and conducted training and employment assistance. It closed in 1948 and was replaced…

Rescued Sisters’ Home

The Rescued Sisters’ Home was opened at North Broken Hill by the Salvation Army in 1898. It was a rescue and maternity home for women and girls and operated in Chapple Street from 1898 until 1909 and then moved to Williams Street until 1917, when the home closed.

St Joseph’s Cottages

St Joseph’s Cottages were established by the Sisters of St Joseph as cottage care for children who were being prepared for foster care by St Anthony’s Home Croydon and Centacare social workers. There were three cottages, with Sisters of St Joseph serving as house mothers. In 2003 St Anthony’s and St Joseph’s Centre of Care,…

The Lodge Young Women’s Hostel

The Lodge Young Women’s Hostel, was run by the Salvation Army at Cambridge Street, Stanmore. It replaced the Girls’ Industrial Home that had operated on the same site. The Lodge was a hostel for girls and young women. It changed its name to Stanmore Children’s Home in 1975, although it appears to have been known…

St Gerard’s [Hospital]

St Gerard’s was run by the Sisters of St Joseph at St Anthony’s Croydon. It had formerly been St Anne’s Nursery. St Gerard’s was for married women and babies who needed care, treatment and recuperation after birth, and for single mothers and their babies, including those awaiting adoption. It was closed in 1980 and converted…

St Gerard’s [Home]

St Gerard’s [Home] was a home for children and families in crisis that was conducted by Centacare social workers and the Sisters of St Joseph’s from 1980 until 1985. Children and families were referred from the Department of Youth and Community Services’ Montrose Child Protection Unit, and they were cared for at St Gerard’s with…