Town and City Mission Records are held at the Central Highlands Libraries, Ballarat Library. The records date from around 1892 to c.1974 and relate to the Town and City Mission and its activities, and include annual reports, visitor records, minutes of meetings, financial records, photographs and plans. The collection includes records of the Alexandra Babies’…
The University of Melbourne Archives was established in July 1960, initially to collect and preserve records relating to the University and to business and business people for the purposes of historical research. The University’s own records date from its foundation in 1853 and as well as administrative records, records of student societies and the personal…
The Central Highlands Regional Library holds the records of the Town and City Mission. The records are not part of the library catalogue.
Records, 1896-1985, [manuscript], Children’s Protection Society (Vic.), MS 10384, are held at the State Library of Victoria. The records date from 1896 to 1985. They include children’s case histories for the Central and Barwon regions, financial records, press cuttings and some photographs. Access Conditions Any person wishing to view material must contact the Children’s Protection…
The Burwood Children’s Home was established in 1972. Previously known as the Burwood Boys’ Home, it changed its name when it began to accept girls from the early 1970s. The last child left the Home in 1986. It was around this time that the Home became the Child and Family Care Network. The Burwood Children’s…
The Child and Family Care Network came into being around 1986. It was known previously as the Burwood Children’s Home. The Network offered child and family welfare and educational programs. In 1996, it shifted its focus to children’s services and early intervention. In 2006, it changed its name to bestchance Child Family Care. The Child…
bestchance Child Family Care was established in 2006. Previously, it was known as Child and Family Care Network. The organisation dates back to 1895 and the establishment of the Burwood Boys’ Home. In 2006, bestchance opened its Child Care Centre in Glen Waverley which delivers a range of children’s services. Bestchance holds records from its…
Yooralla was established in Balwyn in 1945. It was a hostel and school for children with a disability. It accommodated some Victorian wards of state. Yooralla also ran a respite care home and two family group homes. The Balwyn site and facilities were sold in 1993. Yooralla purchased a property on the corner of Belmore…
On 7 December 2010, the Salvation Army issued a national apology to former residents of its children’s homes in Australia who experienced abuse of any sort. The apology covered the period up until the early 1990s, according to the Salvation Army’s press release. The apology was made by General Shaw Clifton, the international leader of…
Family Information, Networks and Discovery (FIND) was a unit within the Department of Health & Human Services (DHHS) that assisted persons who were born or adopted in Victoria to access information and records about their adoption. FIND was formerly known as the Adoption and Family Records Service. FIND also offered the supported release of former…