St Joseph’s Home for Boys in Surrey Hills was the new name given in 1925 to the St Joseph’s Home for Destitute Children. It accommodated boys aged between 4 and 12. In around 1967, the name changed to St Joseph’s Home for Children. In his book, Patrick Wheatley-Kenyon recalled the meals he had as a…
Christian Brothers’ Child Youth and Family Services was formed in 1995, in the lead-up to the creation of MacKillop Family Services in 1997.
The Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart is a religious order founded in 1866, at Penola in South Australia. Its first member and Superior was Mary MacKillop. The Sisters were active in several Australian states in education and child welfare, establishing several schools, orphanages and babies’ and children’s Homes. The order of the…
St Anthony’s Family Service, Footscray, was established by the Sisters of St Joseph in 1976, following the closure of St Anthony’s Children’s Home in Kew. It provided family support services combined with specialist educational services and family group home care. In 1997, these services became part of MacKillop Family Services. St Anthony’s Family Service administration…
The Sisters of Mercy, Melbourne Congregation was a Catholic religious order of women who arrived in Victoria in 1857 from Western Australia. The Sisters operated orphanages, children’s homes, foster care programmes and family care centres. In 1907 other Victorian congregations merged into the Melbourne Congregation. In 2011, the Sisters of Mercy, Melbourne Congregation was dissolved…
The Christian Brothers arrived in Victoria from Ireland in 1868 and in 1874 they were appointed to manage what became known as St Vincent de Paul’s Boys’ Orphanage in South Melbourne. In 1879, the Christian Brothers assumed responsibility of St Augustine’s Orphanage at Geelong. In 1885, the Australasian Province of the Christian Brothers was formally…
The Ballarat District Orphan Asylum was established in 1865 and run by a non-denominational board of management. The Orphanage farm was established in 1869. In 1909, the institution became known as the Ballarat Orphanage. The Ballarat District Orphan Asylum was established in 1865, in response to widespread community concern about the lack of services for…
Ballarat Orphanage was the new name given in 1909 to the former Ballarat District Orphan Asylum. It accommodated boys and girls from around Victoria, aged between 4 and 16. In 1968, the name changed to Ballarat Children’s Home. The Ballarat Orphanage was a large, two-storey Gothic-style building, dating back to 1865. In his submission to…
Ballarat Children’s Home was the new name given in 1968 to the former Ballarat Orphanage. It opened its first family group home in 1976. In 1984, the name changed to Ballarat Children’s Homes and Family Services. In the mid 1980s, Ballarat Children’s Home established a hostel for boys called Raglan House, also known as Raglan…
Ballarat Children’s Homes and Family Services was the new name given in 1984 to the former Ballarat Children’s Homes. The name change reflected shifts in philosophy and practice in the provision of ‘care’, away from the organisation’s origins as the Ballarat District Orphan Asylum. In 1998, the name changed again to Child and Family Services…
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