Serving people in Wilmington’s East Side neighborhood since 1971, St. Patrick’s Center is a nonprofit organization that operates a Senior Center, and provides meals, groceries, clothing, paratransit, and social service support to the public. Our essential services are offered in a welcoming and respectful environment. At St. Patrick’s Center, we transform lives by building community, addressing poverty, and restoring hope.
Mission
To build community, address poverty, and restore hope
by meeting basic needs with respect and dignity.
Impact
- St. Pat’s Food Program feeds 2,000 people every month.
- St. Pat’s distributed enough food to make 528,618 meals in 2025.
- St. Pat’s Resource Center provides 837 services every month.
- St. Pat’s Senior Center provides community to 25 seniors on average each day.
- Our paratransit busses provide over 700 free trips for seniors each month.
- We deliver approximately 1,300 Meals-on-Wheels meals each month.
- 34,626 visits were made to St. Pat’s for services in 2025.
- We impact the lives of over 350 individuals every day.
Staff & Board
Peter W Slattery – Executive Director (peter.slattery@stpatrickscenter.org)
George Milligan – Operations Director
Elizabeth Sanon – Program Director (elizabeth.sanon@stpatrickscenter.org)
Lana Cropper – Office Manager
Theresa Young – Chairperson
Nancy Walsh Law – Vice-Chairperson
R.T. Christopher – Treasurer
Christine Dougherty – Secretary
Kathleen M Dinsmore
Joseph P Farley Jr.
Alison Hildenbrand
Eileen Kemske
Michael McDermott
Tom Neylon
Joseph B Smith
Joseph L Yacyshyn
History
Founded in 1971, St. Patrick’s Center is a nonprofit organization that continues to meet the evolving needs of the community. When St. Patrick’s School closed in 1970, the Sisters of St. Francis who staffed the school asked the local community what was needed. It was decided that a senior center would serve the community well.
The senior center operates in the school building and takes opportunities to serve the community and its ever-changing needs. Today, St. Patrick’s Center has evolved into a welcoming, dignified, respectful, and caring environment with the desire to serve the people of Wilmington’s East Side.