Wimmera UnitingCare Records relate to the programs run by Wimmera Family Group Homes, Wimmera Community Care and Wimmera UnitingCare. These programmes included family group homes, Residential Care, foster care, Shared Family Care, and Adolescent Community Placement. Access Conditions Former residents (and their families) should contact the Uniting Heritage Service to find information, and access personal…
The Children’s Welfare Act 1926 (No. 3497) is ‘An Act to amend the Neglected Children’s Act 1915’. It extended the power of the state over children under state ‘care’ but who were placed with private persons or institutions.
The Premier of Victoria Mr Ted Baillieu launched the ‘Protecting Victoria’s Vulnerable Children Inquiry’ on 31 January 2011. Its terms of reference were: ‘to inquire into and develop recommendations to reduce the incidence and negative impact of child neglect and abuse in Victoria.’ The Inquiry Panel comprised The Honourable Philip Cummins as Chair, with Emeritus…
Wimmera UnitingCare was created through a name change of its predecessor organisation, Wimmera Community Care. It provides Adolescent Community Placement, Residential Care for young people aged 11 to 17, and foster care for children and young people up to 15 years of age. In 2017, Wimmera UnitingCare merged with other agencies to form the new…
Orana UnitingCare was the new name given in 2011 to the former Orana Family Services. The name change reflected a change in services and that the organisation had stopped providing residential care. On 29 June 2012 UnitingCare Sunshine and Broadmeadows and Orana UnitingCare came together to form a new organisation Lentara UnitingCare.
Wimmera Family Group Homes was established in 1979, opening its first group home in Horsham in 1980. In 1981, it amalgamated with Wimmera Emergency Housing and changed its name to Wimmera Community Care.
Wimmera Community Care was founded in 1981 when Wimmera Family Group Homes and Wimmera Emergency Housing amalgamated. It operated family group homes, Residential Care, foster care, Shared Family Care and Adolescent Community Placement in the Wimmera region of Victoria. The organisation changed its name to Wimmera UnitingCare in 2010. Wimmera Community Care ran two family…
In 1971, the Methodist Department of Childcare merged with the Presbyterian Department of Social Services to create the Presbyterian and Methodist Child Care Service. Graeme Gregory was the Director. The merger led to a reorganisation of the adoption services of the Presbyterian and Methodist Babies’ Homes. The Child Care Service was the sole Victorian agency…
Share Care was established in 1983 in Abbotsford as a small, community based foster care program servicing the City of Yarra. Share Care arranged respite, emergency and longer-term care and accommodation for children in the homes of approved caregivers. Share Care aimed to strengthen and support families, assist with the prevention of family breakdown, and…
Goulburn Valley Family Care Inc. was established in Shepparton in 1984 to provide non-government, non-profit services to families throughout the Goulburn Valley region. In the late 1990s it became the major provider of family services for the West Hume region. In 2006, the organisation was renamed FamilyCare which offers support services to people with disabilities,…
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