WestCare Centre
Our heart embraces all.

What’s on at WestCare

Welcoming and supporting people from all walks of life. Our door is open. Our heart embraces all.   

Overnight accommodation

When the temperature soars or plummets, Baptist Care SA is the only South Australian provider to open its door to rough sleepers for overnight accommodation.

People sleeping rough are vulnerable and at an increased risk during extreme weather events.

When the SA Govt calls a Code Red or Code Blue, Baptist Care SA responds by opening the doors of the WestCare Church to anyone experiencing homelessness.

We provide a safe place to sleep overnight, a sleeping bag to keep, nutritious meals, hot showers, laundry facilities and connection with further support.

By remaining open overnight, Baptist Care SA offers kindness and connection to those who are most vulnerable in our community. 

Free and low cost meals

Bringing our community together for food and companionship. 

 

Each weekday morning, we open our doors and invite our neighbours from all walks of life to come together and enjoy delicious healthy food in the company of others. Our community breakfasts are prepared by our chef and a team of volunteers with food that has been donated or purchased with donated funds and provided free to our community. 

On weekdays other than Wednesdays, lunches are $2.50. The low cost is consistent with our view that providing our community with the dignity of choice offers a hand up rather than a handout.

 

WestCare Health Service

The issues facing our community are often so confronting they choose to avoid seeking medical care.

 
Baptist Care SA provides the WestCare Health Service so our community can have equal access to free, culturally safe and trauma-informed care.

Weekly events

Mondays 

9am to 11.30am – Free Community Breakfast
9am to 1pm – Pastoral Care Nurse
9am to 4pm – RDNS Nurse
10am to 3pm – Community Food Hub
11.30am to 1pm – Low-cost lunch

Tuesdays 

9am to 11.30am – Free Community Breakfast
9am to 4pm – RDNS Nurse
9am to 5pm – Drug and Alcohol Services
10am to 3pm – Community Food Hub
11.30am to 1pm – Low-cost lunch

Wednesday

9am to 11.30am – Free Community Breakfast
9am to 1pm – Health Navigators 
9am to 3pm – Eye Clinic
9am to 4pm – Nursing Service 
9am to 12.30pm- Physiotherapy Clinic 
9am to 10.30am – Community Gym
9.30am to 12.30pm – NDIS Access Support
9.30am to 12.30pm – Aboriginal GP Clinic (fortnightly)
10am to 3pm – Community Food Hub

Thursday 

9am to 11.30am  – Free Community Breakfast
9am to 4pm – Nursing service 
10am to 3pm – Community Food Hub
11.30am to 1pm – Free Community Lunch

Friday 

9am to 11.30am – Free Community Breakfast

 

 

Baptist Care SA, lives, works and walks on Kaurna, Permangk and Boandik lands. We acknowledge Aboriginal people as the state’s first peoples, recognise their traditional ownership, and respect their cultural heritage, beliefs, deep connection and continued guardianship of land and waters. We value the contributions of Elders past and present, and are committed to learning from those emerging.