About

Lutheran Community Care Services

(LCCS)

Established in 2002, LCCS is a non-profit, charitable organisation with an Institution of a Public Character (IPC) status and an affiliated partner of the International Institute for Restorative Practices (IIRP).

LCCS has been actively engaging and empowering individuals and families, to build and sustain relationships. Focusing on Restorative Practices, LCCS has served families, schools, institutes, residential homes and various organisations to restore relationships that have been harmed.

Vision

All individuals engaged to build and sustain healthy relationships.

Mission

To drive a restorative movement to break the cycle of hurt and build connected communities of empowered individuals.

LCCS

4 Key Thrust

Advocate a restorative movement

People in all systems advocating for connected and restorative communities as a way of life

Build connected communities

Safe and caring communities that value one another and embrace vulnerability

Equip empowered individuals

Individuals equipped with
skills and knowledge to restore, building and strengthen relationship

Break the
hurt cycle

Restoration through making things right with self and others

Our Practice Principles Are:

Willing ParticipationActive Responsibility

Willing Participation

Creates conditions for people to make an informed choice to participate in a dialogue that builds trust to work with vulnerabilities.

Active Responsibility

Active Responsibility

Guides people to demonstrate responsibility through taking actions for the well-being of the community, including making efforts to repair harm with the support of the community.

Respect Each Individual’s “Voice Space”

Creates conditions for a safe environment to enable each person the opportunity to speak and be listened to with focused attentiveness.

Leverage Individuals' Innate Gifts

Leverage individuals’ capacity for change and their innate gifts to collaboratively contribute to generate solutions to solve issues and/or build community.

Relational Inclusion

Works with individuals to widen their circle of support and build connectedness in the community.

Cultivate Empathy with Engagement

Facilitates self-reflection and encourages exchange of perspectives, courses of action or emotions, which nurtures and develops individuals’ capacity for empathy.

Build Positive Affective Experience

Engages people in a process that maximises positive affect, including facilitating emotional shift from negative to positive affect to build relational capacity.

Make A Difference

“We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.” 

Dr. Loretta Scott

Make
A
Difference

“We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.” 

Dr. Loretta Scott