FREE COVID-19 PHONE COUNSELLING

Family challenges? Feeling overwhelmed? Free phone counselling for challenges arising from COVID-19 is available now by appointment with Centacare. A mental health care plan is not required to access this support. Phone Centacare (08)8215 6700 between 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday, to make a daytime or evening appointment.

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Children's Services

Our vision is to provide safe and nurturing homes for families, children and young people in community. We work with families to identify and harness strengths, address challenges and build confidence.

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Centacare NDIS Supports

We can support you to bring your NDIS plan to life. We offer a range of disability and psychosocial supports, and will work with you to map your NDIS journey and achieve your goals.

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Specialist Domestic Violence Services

We support women and children to reclaim and maintain their fundamental human right to safety. Centacare provides accommodation, outreach services, case management, counselling and other crisis support to people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness due to domestic and family violence.

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Health, Wellbeing and Education Services

Centacare provides a variety of services to help individuals and families who are seeking support with drug and alcohol use, mental health and illness, and to maintain connection to learning and employment.

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Reconciliation

Centacare values Aboriginal culture and its place at the heart of our past, present and future. We are committed to walking in partnership with all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, in the spirit of Reconciliation and mutual respect.

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Youth & Homelessness Services

We aim to empower young people with a sense of purpose, hope and fulfilment. Our accommodation and supports focus on youth homelessness, young families, at-risk mothers and children, mental health and HIV services.

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Relationship Support Services

We work in partnership with individuals, families and children to provide sustainable parenting and relationship support. From playgroups to specialist children’s counselling, family dispute resolution, chaplaincy support and pre-marriage education, services are tailored to your personal needs.

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New primary prevention focus for regional communities

New primary prevention focus for regional communities

Project Manager Megan Welsh is calling on entire regional communities to play their part in the primary prevention of domestic and family violence. Regional communities will be mobilised to empower at-risk women and children under a new project to tackle domestic and family violence in response to COVID-19. Strengthening pathways to safety that have been…

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Vale Russell Ebert

Vale Russell Ebert

It was Russell Ebert who welcomed Centacare to Alberton in 2015 as Port Adelaide prepared to take a stand against domestic violence. In partnership with Centacare and the Department for Education, the club was about to break new ground in the AFL by launching  a respectful relationships program for teenage boys, and Russell wanted in.…

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Read our Annual Report

Read our Annual Report

Positive client outcomes, sector partnerships and staff resolve are among the stories highlighted in our Annual Report 2020-21. Published today, the digital booklet explores Centacare's achievements in a year that evolved into an experience of hope on the back of challenges, change and the retirement of our longest-serving Director, Dale West. We pay tribute to…

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NCPW21: Act now to nurture positive mindset

NCPW21: Act now to nurture positive mindset

I can’t do this. Nobody likes me. Something bad is going to happen. These are reoccurring themes among clients engaged with Reconnect, an early intervention outreach service for young people with emerging mental health concerns whose housing is at risk. Mental Health Worker Tasha Palumbo says negative body image, emotional withdrawal, academic anxiety and sleep…

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Centacare stands with those in our community who experience poverty, unemployment, discrimination, racism and other forms of exclusion. Your donations help ensure the continuing provision of quality services.

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Centacare

Meeting the Challenge

Centacare Catholic Family Services is a Catholic welfare organisation delivering a range of services across the Catholic Archdiocese of Adelaide.

Client Services

45 Wakefield Street Adelaide SA 5000
T 08 8215 6700
E enquiries@centacare.org.au

Opening Hours

Monday – Tuesday | 9am – 5pm
Wednesday – Thursday | 9am – 9pm
Friday | 9am – 5pm

Our Locations

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