Elsie Cook Cottage was a hostel for girls who had previously resided at Bailey Cottage that was part of the Methodist Church’s Heighway House Project. It provided hostel-style accommodation for twelve working age girls and accepted girls who had previously resided at Bailey Cottage and also from Westwood at Bowral. Elsie Cook Cottage was named…
Westwood, at Bowral, was a residential education centre for girls over sixteen years old with mild intellectual disabilities that opened in 1965. It was run by the Methodist Department of Christian Citizenship, and commenced operation in April 1965 with an initial intake of nine girls. By 1968 Westwood held up to 90 girls and women….
Heighway House was a Methodist Church project that provided hostels for adolescent girls. The first hostel was established in 1960 in Drummoyne and provided accommodation for seven girls aged 15 to 18. It then moved to Duffy Avenue, Thornleigh and became a hostel for 12 working age girls. In 1969 Bailey Cottage, in Coogee, was…
Bailey Cottage, in Carr Street Coogee, was bought in 1969 by the Youth Welfare Association of Australia and given to the Methodist Church’s Heighway House Project. It housed some of the Hopewood ‘children’, who were nearing adulthood, as well as state wards and children in need of intensive counselling and support with life skills. It…
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.
Earlwood Family Group Home was opened in 1989 at Sutton Avenue, Earlwood. Most of the residents were only short-term, and a number of them were transferred to one of the other family group homes which the Salvation Army operated in Sydney (Dulwich Hill or Narwee), or to the foster care program. It closed in June…
Narwee Family Group Home, run by the Salvation Army, was opened in 1987 at Grove Avenue, Narwee. The first residents were girls transferred from Stanmore Children’s Home but later residents included boys. It closed in January 1996.
The Salvation Army’s Foster Care Program was established in 1984. Its first goal was to place long-term residents from the Stanmore Children’s Home. The program eventually evolved to become a short-term crisis foster care program. It was stopped in 1994.
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