Paul Street Adolescent Program, in Blacktown, was established in 2002. Previously, the service was known as the Kingsleigh Group Home. Run by Anglicare, the Paul Street Adolescent Program provides accommodation for up to 5 teenaged boys. Paul Street Adolescent Program closed in August 2016.
Care Leavers Records and Archives is part of Anglicare. It stores, maintains and provides access to records from children’s Homes and other institutions run by Anglicare and its predecessors.
Peat Island Centre was a government run institution established in July 1989. It was previously known as Peat Island Hospital. In 2001, responsibility for the facility was transferred to the Department of Ageing and Disability. Peat Island Centre closed in 2010. In 1995, there were a number of allegations raised in the media of extensive…
The Canterbury Bankstown City Library Service comprises 9 branch libraries. The Library’s Local Studies and Family History collections relate to the history, geography and legacy of the Canterbury Bankstown area, in Sydney.
Lutanda Children’s Services is a Christian Brethren community service organisation that was established in 1954. Lutanda Children’s Services commenced by supporting Lutanda Children’s Home and opening Camp Toukley as a holiday home. From 1984, Lutanda Children’s Services provided care in family group homes in Baulkham Hills and Glenmore Park. In 2013, the family group homes…
Peat Island Hospital was a government run institution established in 1973. It was previously known as Peat and Milson Islands Mental Hospital. In 1989 it became known as Peat Island Centre. Women began living on Peat Island on respite in 1976, and permanently from 1978 onwards. Laila Ellmoos notes that in this era female residents…
Peat and Milson Islands Mental Hospital was a government run institution established in 1936. It was previously known as the Rabbit Island Mental Hospital. It was run by the Inspector General of Mental Hospitals until 1958. In 1973 it had a name change and became known as Peat Island Hospital. Peat and Milson Islands Mental…
Eddy’s Out West was established around 1981 in Blacktown, Western Sydney to provide short and long-term accommodation and support services to young people aged 12-18 who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.
Edmund Rice Community Services was established around 2001 and ran Eddy’s Place and Eddy’s Out West in New South Wales. They provided medium to long term accommodation and outreach services for young people and to people who are homeless or at risk of being homeless. On 1 July 2009 MacKillop Family Services took over these…
Rabbit Island Hospital for the Insane was a government run institution established in 1910 and the first male patients were transferred there on 24 March 1911, “initially in order to provide temporary residences for male patients of the ‘chronic’ class” (State Records Authority of New South Wales). The patients admitted to Rabbit Island came from…
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