Pauline Boscato

Aboriginal Services Manager, St Patrick’s Community Support Centre 

Pauline Boscato is a Whadjuk/Yued leader and the Aboriginal Services Manager at St Pat’s Community Support Centre in Fremantle. With more than two decades of senior experience across Corrections, Justice, and Workforce Development, she specialises in culturally grounded system design, ethical governance, and trauma‑informed service reform.

At St Pat’s, Pauline provides strategic leadership across the Aboriginal program, Djenabidet Kalleep, a nationally recognised, place‑based model delivering assertive outreach and integrated health and housing support for Aboriginal people experiencing homelessness. She also oversees the Crossroads MH/AOD Program, advancing innovative harm‑reduction approaches that centre cultural safety, relational practice, lived experience voice, and holistic wellbeing.

Pauline strengthens Aboriginal Data Sovereignty across the sector and has guided the co‑design of culturally grounded approaches to assessment and engagement through Aboriginal‑led processes. Her work continues to shape culturally responsive homelessness, mental health, and AOD practice across Western Australia, grounded in dignity, self‑determination, and cultural truth‑telling.