Rabbit Island Mental Hospital was a government run institution established in around 1917. It was previously known as the Rabbit Island Hospital for the Insane. It was run by the Inspector General of Mental Hospitals. In 1936 it became known as the Peat and Milson Islands Mental Hospital. Rabbit Island Mental Hospital was an institution…
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.
George Green Home was a family group home set up by the United Protestant Association in 1982 at Grafton. It is thought to have closed around 1993.
Depots, Homes And Hostel Files contain applications for licences to conduct a depot, home or hostel. On 1 November 1969, amendments to Part VII of the Child Welfare Act became effective, and, as a result, all places defined as a Depot, Home or Hostel which provided residential care for six or more children up to…
Social Workers’ Case Files (Closed Cases) include client history data sheets, record of ‘presenting problem’, assistance provided, correspondence and case notes. Access Conditions These records are restricted and written permission from the Benevolent Society must be obtained. At the time of application proof of ID and/or proof of relationship to the person in the records…
Hohnen House was opened in 1988 at Campsie as an independent living programme and in 2012 was part of Barnardos adolescent programs.
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…
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