Agencies Contacts

The Catholic Ministry for People who are Deaf or Hearing Impaired seeks to expand accessibility to deaf and hearing impaired people, and to educate the community on the needs of their clients.

Catholic Ministry for People who are Deaf or Hearing Impaired activities are varied, and include telephone support, information sharing, counselling and interpreting services.

With a history dating back to the 1940s, Centrecare is a Catholicnot-for-profit, community services organisation with over 300 staff delivering more than 72 quality, professional counselling, support,mediation and training services throughout the Perth metropolitan,Goldfields, Esperance and South West regions of Western Australia.

This includes weekly and fortnightly services to the communities of Coolgardie, Menzies, Leonora, Lavertonand Norseman. Additionally, staff provide regular support to the remote Aboriginal communities of Coonana, Tjuntjuntjarra and the Ngaanyatjarra Lands.

Centrecare aims to strengthen people and communities through the provision of professional social services, inspired by compassion and recognition for human dignity.

Djooraminda is a service managed by Centrecare which provides residential care and supportive services for Aboriginal children who are not able to live within their own family environment due to either abuse, neglect or other difficulties. If you live in the metropolitan area of Perth and are being reunified with your children, then Centrecare has an intensive outreach service. This service may be able to help you and your children to reconnect and ensure your family is strong.

Emmaus Community provides long term independent community living for people of adult age who live with mental health issues. The environment is such that it supports and encourages the independence of the individual to the best of each member’s ability.

Emmaus started in 1996 as an informal drop in centre, and was set up out of the need for people living with mental illness to have some form of ongoing emotional support after leaving crisis care. Many people living with mental health issues had nowhere to go and were often very isolated. This isolation contributed to further deterioration of mental health.

As people started to use the drop in centre it was obvious that there was a need for long term permanent ‘community’ accommodation, as many were unable to live on their own and often had nowhere to go at night. Today, Emmaus Community owns 5 houses, rents a further 2 houses from the local Catholic Parish and one from the Archdiocese of Perth. They are in the process of building 4 purpose built community houses,which should be ready in early 2016.

The mental health system makes excellent provision for the mental health needs of their patients, however, it is the need of belonging, being able to love and be loved, being respected and most importantly of being taken seriously. This is what Emmaus strives to do for each community member on a daily basis.

Daydawn Advocacy Centre helps and assists Aboriginal people who are at the risk of eviction from public or private housing or are experiencing homelessness. Clients are referred by parents, grandparents, friends, Government departments, welfare agencies, hospitals and a variety of other organizations.

The majority are women who are mothers, grandmothers or aunties, most have children or have taken in family members’ children.

As an agency of the Catholic Church, Daydawn Advocacy Centre is involved in reconciliation initiatives, in addition to networking with Aboriginal leaders and other Aboriginal organisations.

The Shopfront began twelve years ago in Maylands as the Church’s response to a growing number of people in Perth who came seeking its assistance. In the early years the Centre operated as a simple place of hospitality and sharing. However, gradually people came with other needs related to homelessness, health issues and lack of food or finance.

Thankfully, as The Shopfront reached out to help more people in need, more generous volunteers and donors came forward sharing their time, talents and resources. The Shopfront is the front line for welfare within the community and offers help and assistance to people who may be experiencing difficulty in their lives, for example: accommodation, budgeting, addiction, violence, loneliness, etc.

The Shopfront is run predominately by volunteers, who offer assistance in a friendly, non-bureaucratic manner and network with other agencies to obtain the appropriate assistance.

Although thousands of visitors came to The Shopfront in 2014, a really important aspect of the agency is the development of relationships with people who are regular visitors. There are people in the Maylands area who are socially isolated and the friendship that they experience at The Shopfront is so important to their well-being.