Uniting (Victoria and Tasmania) Limited was formed in July 2017 and is the community services organisation of the Uniting Church of Australia in Victoria and Tasmania. At its establishment Uniting brought together 24 founding agencies, including 21 UnitingCare agencies and Wesley Mission Victoria.
From its establishment Uniting continued to provide care and support to children, young people and their families through programs such as foster care, kinship care, adoption and permanent care, and residential care.
Other community service programs operated by Uniting since it was formed include aged and carer services, housing and homelessness, early learning centres, alcohol and other drug services, and asylum seeker support.
1888 - 1891 Livingstone House
1929 - c. 1974 Methodist Babies' Home
1890 - c. 1937 Kildonan, North Melbourne
1891 - c. 1953 Methodist Homes for Children
1974 - 1991 Copelen Street Family Centre
1893 - 1977 Wesley Central Mission
1928 - 1977 Presbyterian Babies' Home
1937 - c. 1961 Kildonan, Burwood
1953 - 1988 Orana, the Peace Memorial Homes for Children
1960 - 1985 Harrison House
1973 - 1998 Grassmere Youth Services
1991 - 1998 Copelen Child and Family Services
c. 1960 - c. 1993 Kildonan Homes for Children
1970s - 2000 Wheelers Hill Family Centre
1977 - 2000 Canterbury Family Centre
1977 - 2001 Wesley Central Parish Mission
c. 1978 - 2002 Kilmany Family Care
1979 - 1981 Wimmera Family Group Homes
1985 - 1994 Harrison House Youth Services
1988 - 2011 Orana Family Services
1998 - 2000 Copelen
1981 - 2000 Wimmera Community Care
c. 1993 - 2007 Kildonan Child and Family Services
1994 - 2008 Harrison Community Services
2000 - 2017 Connections UnitingCare
2001 - 2010 Wesley Mission Melbourne
2002 - 2010 Kilmany UnitingCare
2011 - 2012 Orana UnitingCare
1985 - 2017 UnitingCare Werribee Support and Housing
2000 - 2017 Wimmera UnitingCare
2000 - 2017 UnitingCare Victoria and Tasmania
2007 - 2017 Kildonan UnitingCare
2008 - 2017 UnitingCare Harrison
2010 - 2017 UnitingCare Gippsland
2010 - 2017 Wesley Mission Victoria
2012 - 2017 Lentara UnitingCare
2017 - 2020 Uniting - Connections
2017 - Uniting (Victoria and Tasmania) Limited
Sources used to compile this entry: 'We will be Uniting - an exciting step', in Wesley Mission Victoria, Wesley Mission Victoria, 3 October 2016, https://wesley.org.au/we-will-be-uniting/.
Prepared by: Cate O'Neill
Created: 11 October 2016, Last modified: 8 July 2020
Last updated: 7 August 2023
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