This archival collection titled Sydney City Mission records, 1862-1983, including minute books and historical papers, held by the State Library of New South Wales contains records dated from 1862 to 1983 relating to Sydney City Mission. Access Conditions The Sydney City Mission records are held at the State Library of New South Wales. People wishing…
Records of children’s homes and facilities run by Mission Australia are in the control of Mission Australia. Mission Australia may hold some later records of homes that were run by Sydney City Mission. Requests for material should be sent to the General Counsel, Mission Australia.
The Special School for Multi-Handicapped Blind Children was set up by the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children in 1974 at North Rocks. It was a school with medical, therapeutic and residential facilities for children with a range of disabilities and was extended in 1980. It operated until 1990, when it became the Alice…
Cottee Lodge, in Ashfield, was set up by the Wesley Central Mission in around 1986 as a residential service to help homeless youth. In 2014 it appears this service has become an independent living programme, run by Wesley Mission. Cottee Lodge was established in a former convent, run by German nuns, which had 18 rooms…
The Deaf and Dumb Institution, founded in 1860, was renamed the New South Wales Institution for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind in 1868. It was a public institution for the education of deaf and blind children and had a residential facility for school-aged children. Initially based at Ormond House (Juniper Hall) in Paddington, the Institution…
The Royal Institution for Deaf and Blind Children was the new name given to the Institution for the Deaf, Dumb and the Blind in 1957, when Queen Elizabeth II conferred the title ‘Royal’ on the Darlington school and residential facility. The Institution moved to North Rocks in 1962 and the old building was acquired by…
The Deaf and Dumb Institution was founded in Sydney in 1860 by Thomas Pattison, a deaf migrant from Scotland, to provide education to deaf children. It started as a private school, with a residential facility, in Liverpool Street, near South Head Road. It then moved to Castlereagh Street and was officially declared a public institution…
The Catholic Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle represents the Catholic Church in the Newcastle, Lake Macquarie, Hunter and Manning areas. It was formed out of the Sydney Archdiocese in 1847. Since 1965 the Diocese has delivered social welfare programmes and services to care leavers through CatholicCare Hunter-Manning Social Services, which until 2011 was called Centacare Newcastle.
The CatholicCare Diocese of Broken Bay is the new name for Centacare Diocese of Broken Bay. The name change occurred in late 2013. CatholicCare Broken Bay provides social services from Willoughby in northern Sydney up to Woy Woy on the Central Coast. CatholicCare Broken Bay provides foster care and out-of-home care residential services for the…
The Catholic Diocese of Broken Bay was established in 1986, after a restructure of the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney. It covers the area from Willoughby in northern Sydney to Woy Woy on the Central Coast. A number of independent Catholic organisations provided residential care within what are now the boundaries of the Diocese.
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