Dunlea Centre, prior to 2010 known as Boys' Town Engadine,[1] is an Australian residential secondary school for adolescent young people.

Its specialised program provides therapeutic support and education to young people who might be experiencing emotional, behavioural and/or social difficulties.

[4] The team at Dunlea Centre use the principles of the Teaching-Family Model to teach youth positive behaviours and coping skills, which can be applied to all aspects of a young person’s life.

[6] In 1938, while ministering to homeless families sheltering in the Royal National Park, a dying woman asked Fr Tom, as his parishioners called him, to look after her son.

[9] Publicity from the news reels and newspapers brought support and donations, which enabled the purchase of a seven acre property in Engadine, just a three kilometre hike from the Boys' Town camp.

[14] As a "town" the boys constituted their own council and conducted their own elections for the positions of mayor, aldermen, health inspectors and other officers.

In addition, the boys maintained a small farm with livestock, stables, water supply, vegetable gardens and orchard groves.

The boys also operated a butchery, leather works, metalwork, blacksmith, foundry, carpentry, woodworks, small brickworks, and a bakery.