Christina Campbell Farm Home was opened as part of the Burnside Presbyterian Orphan Homes in March 1941 at North Parramatta. It operated until 1952.
The Department of Christian Citizenship was an agency of the Methodist Church and replaced the Department of Social Services in 1965. It auspiced Westwood, a residential education centre at Bowral, and ran Iandra Methodist Rural Centre, St Andrews at Leppington and the Heighway House Project. When the Uniting Church formed in 1977 the Department of…
The House of the Good Shepherd on Pitt Street provided accommodation for females over the age of fourteen years. It opened in 1848, in the building of Carters’ Barracks, and was initially staffed by the Irish Sisters of Charity. In 1857 a new order was established to run the institution called the Sisters of the…
Cornwell Group Home was a family group home at Blacktown established around the 1980s. It was run by Church of England Homes as a temporary family group home for children. It closed in the late 1990s. In 1984, in its newsletter Care, Church of England Homes described the purpose of its group homes: Cornwall [Cornwell],…
Cootamundra Training Home was established in a disused hospital building by the Aborigines Protection Board in 1911. It housed only Aboriginal girls, and was designed to train girls for domestic service. In 1940 its management passed to the Aborigines Protection Board. It continued as a girls’ home for Aboriginal girls until it was closed in…
The Gables Residential Unit 101, in Kew, opened in 1985. It operated on the same site as the former children’s Home, The Gables (1962-1985). The Gables Residential Unit was run by the Victorian government. It was a facility for teenagers. It closed in around 1992.
St John’s Home for Boys Board of Management was established by the Synod of the Church of England Diocese of Melbourne in 1926. The St John’s Board of Management took over the running of St John’s Home for Boys from a provisional committee set up by the Church of England in 1919. In 1958, its…
The Anglican Diocese of North Queensland was incorporated in 1883, when it was known as the Church of England Diocese of North Queensland. In 1900, part of North Queensland was separated to form the new Diocese of Carpentaria, which also included the Northern Territory. In 1981 the Church of England changed its name to the…
The Church of England Women’s Shelter in Brisbane opened in 1903. It was a shelter for single mothers as well as women needing “rescue”. First located in William Street, it moved to a building in Mary Street in 1907 and remained there until 1928 when it moved to Spring Hill. The Shelter moved to its…
Kyle Williams Home was a family group home run by the Presbyterian Department of Social Services. It opened in 1985 in Blakehurst, Sydney. Previously, the property had been a Home run by Sydney Legacy, called Kyle Williams Legacy Home. It closed in 2003, when the government withdrew funding.
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