The Infants’ Home, Ashfield was established in Henry Street, Ashfield in 1877. Previously, it had been located in Stewart Street, Paddington, and known as the Sydney Foundling Hospital. The Infants’ Home, Ashfield was a lying-in hospital and pioneered the practice of keeping mothers and babies together after the birth, and helping mothers find work. It…
The Sydney Foundling Institution was founded in May 1874 as a non-church affiliated refuge for abandoned babies and single mothers, run by a committee of women. Its first location was on Victoria Street, Darlinghurst. In October 1874, the institution changed its name to the Sydney Foundling Hospital and soon after, in 1875, moved to Stewart…
Inasmuch Children’s Home was established in 1956 at Falls Creek, near Nowra, by a retired Salvation Army Officer who had been a welfare worker. It was a Home for children who had been removed by the courts or were placed by their parents. Inasmuch was converted to an aged care facility in 1986. Inasmuch was…
Mission Australia was formed in 1996 when Sydney City Mission, Adelaide City Mission, Wollongong City Mission, Perth City Mission (also known as Jesus People Inc.), Brisbane City Mission, Mission Australia Northern New South Wales, Mission Australia Southern New South Wales, Mission Australia Group Training and Mission Employment all joined forces. It provides a range of…
The Youth Welfare Association of Australia was a charity founded by Sydney businessman LO Bailey to fund and run his children’s homes. Bailey was its President and its Vice-President was Florence Madge Cockburn, Bailey’s chief executive in his lingerie business. The YWAA office was in Surry Hills. It was renamed the Australian Youth and Health…
The Hunter Mission evolved out of charitable operations conducted by Mayfield Baptist Church. It commenced its operations in Newcastle under the name Hunter Mission in 1991. The Hunter Mission ran a substitute care service for young people. It became part of Mission Australia in 2000.
The Australian Youth and Health Foundation (also known as the Australian Youth Foundation) is a public company, created in 1985, as the new form of the Youth Welfare Association of Australia (YWAA). In 2012 the Australian Youth and Health Foundation was based in Surry Hills, Sydney. In 2025, the Australian Youth and Health Foundation is…
Belhaven Home for Mothers and Babies, in Bellevue Hill, was a babies home developed by Sydney businessman LO Bailey in 1942 and run by the Youth Welfare Association. Approximately 200 unwed or widowed mothers gave birth at Belhaven or sought assistance there. Bailey also gathered babies from nearby maternity hospitals. In all, 86 babies remained…
Hopewood, in Bowral, was a children’s home operated by the Youth Welfare Association of Australia (YWAA), which was founded by Leslie Owen Bailey. Bailey gathered 86 babies from unmarried mothers from 1942 until 1951 and raised them at Hopewood, and at smaller institutions in New South Wales, using his principles of ‘natural health’. Hopewood closed…
Fairbridge Farm Schools of New South Wales was set up in 1937 to arrange the emigration of children from the United Kingdom and their care and schooling at the Fairbridge Farm School, Molong. Children were sent to New South Wales by the Fairbridge Society, London, but their care and schooling after they arrived in Australia…
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