The Catholic Adoption Agency was established in 1967 under the auspices of the Society of St Vincent de Paul. It was the adoption agency for the area covered by the Sydney Archdiocese of the Catholic Church. It was founded in response to the 1965 Adoption of Children Act, which regulated adoption and provided for the…
The Catholic Family Welfare Bureau was established in 1941 by the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney to provide social welfare services to needy children, families and individuals. It provided marriage counselling, worked with children in orphanages and children’s homes, deserted mothers and provided adoption services. The social work methods used by the Catholic Family Welfare Bureau…
CatholicCare Sydney is the welfare agency of the Sydney Archdiocese of the Catholic Church. There are a number of CatholicCare and Centacare offices throughout New South Wales, each of which is aligned with its local Catholic Diocese and forms part of Catholic Social Services Australia. It was formerly called Centacare Catholic Community Services. It provides…
Pathways Adolescent Unit at Wyong commenced in February 1991 and the first resident arrived in April of the same year. Pathways runs an Intervention Support Program for residential care and support clients living in the community. In 2008 Pathways Adolescent Unit became Pathways Out of Home Care Youth Accommodation Service.
Thorington, the first of the Baptist Trust’s AS White Homes for Children, was located at Corrimal, near Wollongong. It was opened on 26 May 1973 by Mr WC Langshaw, Under Secretary of the New South Wales Department of Child Welfare and Social Services. Thorington closed as a children’s home in December 1981.
Carisbrook, in Auburn, was run by the Baptist Homes Trust. It was the second AS White Children’s Home and was officially opened on 7 December 1975 by Miss Dorothy White. It was a children’s home until 1989, when the child care programs were reassessed. Carisbrook then became a home for young people aged twelve to…
Kings Langley Substitute Care for Adolescents was a children’s home for teenagers, situated at Kings Langley (near Blacktown). It commenced in November 1994 and the first resident arrived in December 1994. Kings Langley Substitute Care for Adolescents closed around 2004.
Karingal Children’s Home, run by the Baptist Homes Trust, was officially opened at Mosman on 24 November 1956 by the Hon. F.H. Hawkins, MLA, Minister for Child Welfare and Social Services. The home provided accommodation for boys under the age of seven, and girls. On 24 April 1986 the home transferred to 27 Alan Avenue,…
Ruhamah, run by the Baptist Homes Trust, was a children’s Home established in May 1959 at South Hurstville for boys. Ruhamah was officially opened on 15 August 1959 and accomodated ten boys aged two to thirteen. Laterly, younger boys were housed at Karingal Children’s Home with Ruhamah accomodating boys over seven. In November 1975 the…
Baptist Community Services was established in 1986. It was a non-profit corporation limited by guarantee and was an agency of the Baptist Union of New South Wales. Previously, it was known as New South Wales Baptist Homes Trust. Baptist Community Services operated a number of child and youth programs including Carisbrook, Kings Langley Substitute Care…
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