In 1963, a group of concerned community leaders in the Western Coloured Township (known as Westbury) founded the now SANCA Central Rand Alcohol and Drug Centre. The Westbury centre provides intervention programmes to alcohol and substance abuse in the Western Suburbs of Johannesburg and surrounding areas.

At the time, the organisation was named the Johannesburg Coloured Society to conform to the group areas act in force by the apartheid regime. Their objective was to address the aforementioned social ills exacerbated by alcohol and drug use. During the 1980s, the name Johannesburg Coloured Society was changed to South Western Johannesburg Society when it was affiliated to the “SANCA” national body.