As Glastonbury changed it’s service profile the agency was able to free up a substantial area of land that had been purchased as a farm which had provided food for the children’s home as well as work training for boys. The farm land surrounding the children’s home was gradually sub-divided from the late 1980’s and the income from sales of the land were invested to provide recurrent income for Glastonbury’s programs.
This enabled Glastonbury to respond to the range of needs of the children who were placed in care in the agency’s family group homes. These needs included medical, dental, educational and recreational supports and assistance.
In the early 1990’s Glastonbury diversified its programs profile by establishing a family support program and a case work service in Colac, as well as maintaining the family group home program for sibling groups.
From the mid 1990’s Glastonbury further diversified its services by adding a home based volunteer care program as well as maintaining the agency’s family group home program for children removed from the home for child protection reasons.
The agency later added an intensive family support program which aimed to prevent the removal of children and to reunify them with their parents. The agency’s family support program now assisted families to work through their complex, chronic and long term needs.
