As women, do we prioritise our own health?
Many women find it challenging to put their own needs first when they are so busy caring for other people in their lives. Women’s Health Week 2021 offers timely encouragement for ...
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National Child Protection Week 2021 – A Fair Go for Children
The theme for National Child Protection Week 2021 is ‘Every child, in every community, needs a fair go’. This is such a relevant theme because children can thrive and be healthy ...
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Holyoake wins Business of the Year Award 2021
June 08, 2021 The Town of Victoria Park hosted the 2021 Vic Park Business Awards at a glittering ceremony at the Optus Stadium on June 4. Holyoake won the overall award ...
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Young People and the power of Social Media
As part of Generation-Z, I can’t imagine life without social media. It’s my go-to for entertainment, shopping, news, fashion, gossip, trends, games, and so much more. My name is Jessica Daniels ...
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Let’s get together to support the community
WE'RE LOOKING FOR A NON-PROFIT ORGANISATION TO SHARE OUR OFFICE SPACE AND VALUES. As a community organisation, you know the right space and environment can make a huge ...
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Holyoake WCADS Prevention Team wins Award
The annual Injury Matters - Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion Awards - were announced on March 25, 2021. Holyoake’s Wheatbelt Community Alcohol and Drug Service (WCADS) Prevention Team won the award ...
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A much-needed Wellbeing Portal for Health Professionals
As health professionals, we often tend to put the needs of our clients and communities at the forefront of our work. Now more than ever, as we ease out of COVID-19, ...
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How to Talk About Mental Health at Work
Employees often worry about disclosing their mental health concerns to upper management, thinking that they have to put up a front once they step into the office. However, bottling up these ...
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Covid-19: Looking out for each other
Australia, the lucky country, has recently been hit by a series of unfortunate circumstances. Fires, floods… and now the pandemic of Covid-19 or Coronavirus. If adversity is the true test of ...
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Stay safe this Festive Season
With festive season around the corner, so are the barbeques, functions and family gatherings. This is a good time of the year to reflect on our drinking culture and the way ...
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Meet Veronica McGuire – a proud Balladong Noongar Woman
Veronica McGuire, a proud Balladong Noongar woman from the Wheatbelt area, looks back at her growing years and reflects on changing times. “We never had a house, just a ...
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HR Managers and the Mental Health Stigma
March 15, 2019 by Angie Paskevicius If you are a Manager of HR or Learning & Development, you will agree that employee mental wellness presents quite the ...
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The Messy Desk
February 11, 2019 by Chris Darmody The use of metaphors can be an effective tool in finding common ground. The Messy Desk is a way I often ...
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Holyoake receives Lotterywest grant to refurbish office
August 10, 2018 The State Government, through Lotterywest, will help Holyoake refurbish its head office in Victoria Park with a $1.8 million grant to continue helping Western Australians with alcohol and ...
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Holyoake’s Alan Beattie wins scholarship for Curtin Ignition Program
August 09, 2018 Curtin University’s Ignition is an intensive one-week training program for aspiring entrepreneurs, academics and corporate innovators to trial, then prepare business ideas for the commercial environment. Alan Beattie, ...
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Investing to Save – A report on Mental Health Reform
May 03, 2018 by Angie Paskevicius, Holyoake Fracture an arm and the visible cast draws instant attention and sympathy. Unfortunately anxiety, depression and other mental health issues ...
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Holyoake Welcomes Marie Taylor – Aboriginal Elder in Residence
April 11, 2018 Holyoake is committed to meaningful reconciliation with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Following the successful implementation of our Reflect Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP), we will soon launch ...
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Holyoake wins 2018 AOD Prevention Award
March 12, 2018 Holyoake’s Wheatbelt Community Alcohol and Drug Service Prevention Team won the award for Effective Prevention at the 2018 AOD Awards for its combined Suicide Prevention & Alcohol and ...
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5 Tips to empower people to wellness
March 12, 2018 by Angie Paskevicius, Holyoake Isn’t it an irony that our hyper-connected technological era can leave people feeling more disconnected than ever before? It is not ...
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Is someone you care about affected by methamphetamine?
February 07, 2018 by Erica Lucas, Holyoake If you or someone you care about is affected by methamphetamine, it is important to understand some important facts about ...
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12 Tips to stress less this festive season
December 21, 2017 by Jo Drayton, Holyoake The Christmas season is not always a festive time for everyone. It can be an emotional and challenging time for ...
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Holyoake introduces child parent relationship training
August 22, 2017 Raising children can be one of the most challenging – and rewarding – responsibilities in life. While you want the best for your child, parenting/caring can often be ...
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Employers concerned about the use of methamphetamines by staff
July 17, 2017 The number of Australians using methamphetamines has tripled over the past five years1, while the use of this drug in Western Australia is nearly double the Australian average2. ...
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Holyoake establishes a Specialist Methamphetamine Team
July 09, 2017 The use of methamphetamines in WA is nearly double the Australian average. Recent Holyoake data shows that methamphetamine is now the primary drug of concern for the majority ...
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5 Tips for parents: Supplying alcohol to minors
June 28, 2017 by Samantha Menezes, Blogger Secondary supply laws were introduced into Western Australia in November 2015. In order to ensure the public are educated about ...
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Programs to help children affected by someone else’s substance misuse
June 22, 2017 A recent report* revealed that over 1,000,000 children across Australia are impacted by the drinking of others. And more than 10,000 children are in the child protection system ...
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What is Reconciliation?
June 13, 2017 by Claire McGuire, Holyoake I am a proud Balladong Noongar woman from the Wheatbelt area, and a Counsellor in Holyoake’s Northam office. People often ...
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Secondary Supply Legislation in WA
January 02, 2017 by Samantha Menezes, Blogger When the “Introduce Secondary Supply Laws in WA” petition first went online in March 2013 many people presumed it was ...
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Making music at Holyoake Connect
November 27, 2015 by Ev Taylor, Holyoake It is often said that music is good for the soul, and in the words of Ella Fitzgerald, “the only ...
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Suicide prevention – together we can save lives
November 20, 2016 by Mario Gomes, Holyoake It is hard to imagine what goes through the mind of someone who contemplates the extreme choice of taking one’s ...
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Holyoake appoints Suicide Prevention Coordinator in the Wheatbelt
November 03, 2016 Holyoake has appointed Jo Drayton – a highly experienced suicide prevention specialist – to coordinate the Suicide Prevention 2020 strategy in the Wheatbelt. She will work with existing ...
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It’s time to stop the blatant double standard: Cigarettes v/s Alcohol
September 27, 2016 by Angie Paskevicius, Holyoake Despite overwhelming statistics and research about the harmful effects of alcohol, our Government hesitates to increase tax on alcohol and ...
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Breaking the deadly code of silence
March 27, 2016 by Mario Gomes, Holyoake The introduction of drug testing is a much-discussed topic in the building industry. The new building code will soon make ...
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Holyoake’s Reconciliation Action Plan
December 03, 2015 Committed to meaningful reconciliation, Holyoake has developed its Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) in consultation with Reconciliation Australia, the Mental Health Commission, Aboriginal Alcohol and Drug Service, Swan City ...
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Looking back at 40 years of Holyoake
October 27, 2015 by Mario Gomes, Holyoake In the early seventies, problem drinking was generally treated as a disease; the advice was to “detox, sober up, and ...
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Holyoake CEO is Telstra WA Business Woman of the Year
October 03, 2015 It is not very often that a non-profit organisation takes top honours at prestigious business awards. So it was a great honour that Angie Paskevicius, CEO of Holyoake, ...
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Holyoake Launches Consumer Involvement Campaign
February 03, 2015 Holyoake has developed a consumer involvement campaign to encourage clients to provide feedback. The campaign includes posters, printed forms and electronic forms as easy options to provide feedback. ...
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Holyoake Connect Offers Continuing Care to Clients
February 03, 2015 Holyoake’s purpose is to help bring lasting change to lives affected by alcohol, drugs and related issues. This means going beyond counselling programs to providing continuing care through ...
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