The Industrial School for Boys, in Riverview, was run by the Salvation Army. Boys sentenced to confinement by Children’s Courts were sent to Riverview for training in general farm work. It opened 1 October 1898 and in 1926 it became a training farm for British male youth migrants. The Industrial School for Boys, Riverview was…
The Home for Boys, Riverview, situated at 29 Riverview Road, was operated by the Salvation Army. In the 1950s it received young migrants from Britain to train in farm practices. The name changed to the Training Farm for Boys in 1966. In the 1950s the Salvation Army Training Home for Boys at Riverview admitted 77…
The Training Farm for Boys, situated at 29 Riverview Road, was operated by the Salvation Army. It was previously known as the Home for Boys, Riverview. In 1969 its name was changed to Endeavour Training Farm. A publication from 1968 described the Training Farm for Boys: PURPOSE: To provide a home for uncontrollable and delinquent…
The Endeavour Training Farm, situated at Riverview was operated by the Salvation Army. It was previously known as the Training Farm for Boys. Due to a move towards cottage home models of care, Endeavour Training Farm ceased to operate in 1973. The boys were moved to Hillsdale Village for Boys at Mulgowie. In 1998, former…
The Chelmer Children’s Home, situated at 7 Laurel Avenue, Chelmer was operated by the Presbyterian Church. In 1968 it was described as a family group home. In November 1969, it opened as a special care centre for disabled babies and toddlers, with a family group wing. The house later became a private residence and has…
The Salvation Army Girls’ Home in Toowong came into being in 1956. Previously it was the Industrial School for Girls. The Home closed and the buildings were demolished around 1961/1962. Kalimna Vocational Centre for Girls opened on the site in December 1962.
Nicklin Cottage Family Group Home, in Aspley, opened in 1960 and closed in 1984. It was run by the Methodist Church until 1977 when management of the home was transferred to the Uniting Church. The home reopened in early 2011 and in 2014 was operating as a residential home for young people between the ages…
Chester House, in Ipswich, opened in 1980/81 and was operated by the Uniting Church. Funding for Chester House ceased temporarily in August 1984. The institution closed in 1996.
The Singleton Home was established by Retta Long and the Aborigines Inland Mission (AIM) in a rented house in Singleton in 1905. It started as a girls’ home, although some adult members of the St Clair and Singleton communities stayed there. It became the Singleton Children’s Home in 1910, after the Aborigines Protection Board began…
Zuill Home was a family group home set up by the United Protestant Association at Grafton in 1984. Little is known about this home. It closed around 1993.
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