St. Patrick's Community Support Centre

09/10/2026

We're proud as punch of our very own Brett Goring, who took home the Mentally Healthy Employee or Volunteer Award at the WA Mental Health Awards! 💚🏆

As St Pat's first Aboriginal Lived Experience Peer Worker, Brett has been a fierce advocate for our community, using his lived experience, knowledge and skills to break down barriers, challenge stigma and make St Pat's a safer, more welcoming place for everyone.

And the celebrations didn't stop there! 🎉

We were also thrilled to take home the Diversity and Inclusion Award, recognising the incredible care and commitment our teams put into making St Pat's a place where everyone feels welcome, respected and valued.

Our work isn't always easy, but every day our staff and volunteers show up with open hearts, look out for each other and keep finding ways to do better.

These awards mean a lot because they recognise something we care deeply about: building a community where everyone belongs. 💚

A huge congratulations to Brett, our wonderful team, all the other finalists and winners and a big thank you to the Western Australian Association for Mental Health for their continuing work to improve the lives of people with living and lived experience of mental health, and their carers, and awards sponsors Roshana Care Group and Consumers of Mental Health WA for the opportunity to spotlight the amazing organisations and individuals making a difference to our community.

06/10/2026

💚 Proud to be part of the heart of Freo.

We’re thrilled to be named a finalist in the Community Organisation category of the Fremantle Chamber of Commerce 2026 Fremantle Business Awards! 🏆

Fremantle is home to an incredible community of organisations working every day to make our little corner of the world a better place, and we’re proud to be recognised alongside so many of them.

Tickets to the awards gala, on Thursday October 8th, are on sale now 👉 https://www.fremantlechamber.com.au/events/fremantle-business-awards-gala-2026

A huge congratulations to all this year’s finalists, and thank you to the City of Fremantle and The University of Notre Dame Australia for helping shine a light on the wonderful people and organisations of our community. 💚

03/10/2026

02/10/2026

Dental care is about more than smiles.

Our Oral Health Clinic is powered by amazing volunteers, professional dentists who provide free care to people experiencing homelessness and hardship.

If you're a dentist who'd like to volunteer, please contact us. 💚💚

29/09/2026

There's an extra star in the sky tonight. 🌟

Our friend Alan Hope, who has been a part of our Starlight Hotel Choir for almost two decades, has sadly passed away.

Alan held a galaxy of the unspoken in his eyes, but if you were lucky enough to hear him sing, you could feel his passion. It was an unselfconscious, infectious and honest sound, one which we will carry with us in every song, and in our hearts.

On behalf of Alan's family, a service to celebrate his life will take place at Karrakatta Cemetery on Monday, October 5th at 2:30pm, in the Brown Chapel. If you wish to attend, please gather at the main entrance prior to service commencing.

Vale Alan, we'll meet you in the music.

[Image is of Alan, left, with Morty. Old friends, reunited at last.]

25/09/2026

Team Freo, always. 💜⚓️

We’ll be proudly barracking for the Fremantle Dockers this weekend, with a heartfelt thanks for everything they’ve done for St Pat’s over the years.

From quietly volunteering their time to bring some joy to people doing it tough, to the entire playing group backing us through the Fremantle Foundation Fremantle Players Fund, their support has meant a lot to our community.

From all of us at St Pat’s, good luck this weekend. We couldn’t be prouder to be Team Freo. 💜💚⚓️

31/08/2026

August 31st marks 25 years of International Overdose Awareness Day. 💜💚

At St Pat’s, we’ve been providing access to take-home naloxone kits for more than 10 years. During that time, our Crossroads team has helped people build the knowledge and confidence to respond to an opioid overdose, when it matters most.

We call them overdose lifesavers.

Today we share our grief at the loss of our loved ones, the people behind the statistics. But we’re also taking a moment to celebrate the many lives who’ve been saved thanks to harm-reduction, outreach support and naloxone intervention.

💜💚 If you’d like to leave a tribute to someone, you can share it here: https://www.overdoseday.com/tributes/

28/08/2026

Wear it purple! 💜⚓️

Some very special guests dropped by our Hub today, making sure our Fremantle Dockers super fans can be part of the finals fever sweeping across Freo! 💜

A huge thanks to Captain alexpearce25 and all the players for stopping by, getting stuck into the decorating and bringing that purple magic. 🔮

And on Wear it Purple Day, it felt especially fitting to be celebrating what community is all about: connection, belonging, and acceptance.

Because courage isn’t only found in the big moments. It’s in the everyday choice to live proudly, invite others in and create spaces where people feel welcome and celebrated.

Today, we got to do a little of that together. 💜🌈

Go Freo!

18/08/2026

Sunday roast at Nan’s 🥔💚

For many of us, there’s something powerful about those memories. The smell of roast potatoes, gravy on the table, the aunties with the loud laugh.

For Homelessness Week, our Crossroads team recreated Sunday Roast at Nan’s to bring more than 130 people together, sharing good food, memories and connection.

Because home is more than four walls. It’s knowing you have a place where you belong.

06/08/2026

Booraka Danjoo means Brave Together, because no one person or organisation can end homelessness by themselves.

We’re proud to work alongside the incredibly dedicated workers, volunteers and people with lived, and living, experience of homelessness in our region. It’s a privilege to be entrusted with this work, and we pledge to keep being brave, and bold, as we continue to support people experiencing homelessness in our community on the path to home.

Expanding outreach means more support for Western Australians experiencing rough sleeping, when and where they need it.

I'm pleased to announce that St. Patrick's Community Support Centre has been awarded a five-year contract to deliver the new Booraka Danjoo Coordinated Outreach Service across Perth's southern suburbs from October.

Booraka Danjoo is about meeting people where they are, building trust, and connecting them with the support, accommodation and housing they need to improve their circumstances.

This is another important step in delivering All Paths Lead to a Home: Western Australia's 10-Year Strategy on Homelessness, backed by the Cook Labor Government's record $10.8 billion investment in Housing and Homelessness measures.