Connecting Responses

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Connecting Responses
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Salvation for Both Worlds
William Booth committed The Salvation Army to a
war on two fronts with the aim of bringing
redemption to the whole person, through personal
and temporal salvation.
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Holistic
(from ???? holos, a Greek word meaning all,
entire, total) is the idea that all the
properties of a given system (biological,
chemical, social, economic, mental, linguistic
etc.) cannot be determined or explained by the
sum of its component parts alone. Aristotle
"The whole is more than the sum of its
parts. Holistic Health - views physical,
mental and spiritual aspects of life as closely
interconnected and equally important in
approaches to treatment.
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'Souls' is an expression which must not be
misunderstood. The salvation soldier must always
remember to pay attention to the whole man. The
basic conviction of Salvationism is that man's
specific need as a human being, which makes him
different from all other created beings, is his
need of fellowship with God.
Man has not been helped as he needs to be
helped if he has been provided with
food, clothes and shelter, to the neglect of his
problems of personality and his moral
and spiritual difficulties.
Section5. Going for Souls and Going for the Worst
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I must assert in the most unqualified way that
it is primarily and mainly for the sake of saving
the soul that I seek the salvation of the body.
But what is the use of preaching the Gospel to
men whose attention is concentrated upon a mad,
desperate struggle to keep themselves alive?
You might as well give a tract to a ship
wrecked sailor who is battling with the surf
which has drowned his comrades and threatens to
drown him. He will not listen to you. Nay, he
cannot hear you any more than a man whose head is
under water can listen to a sermon. The first
thing to do is get him at least a footing on firm
ground, and to give him room to live. Then you
may have a chance.
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All who are not on the rock are inthe sea and
every soldier must go to their rescue.
William Booth
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HOLISTIC MISSION
Social service
Body
Social action
Mind
Evangelism
Spirit
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Welfare Reform

• Intergenerational welfare dependence.
• An Increasing gap between the haves
• and have nots.
• Mental Health Issues.
• Loss of community.
• Social isolation and loneliness.
• Increased secularisation of the Western
• World.

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Building resilience
A HAND UP NOT A HAND OUT
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Building resilience
Those who have the best of situation, if they
lose their foothold on the ladder, find it
difficult enough to regain their place.
William Booth
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Building resilience

• Holistic
• Whole of life
• Cradle to grave
• Continuum
• Joined up
• Integrated
• Relational
• Capacity building

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Whole of Life

• Key institutions who can provide this
• Family
• Church
• Local Neighbourhood

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Early Salvation Army
Its objective - 1907, was "to combat the
growing tendency to neglect the fostering of
true home life and to encourage thrift and
hygiene."
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Salvation Army 2007

• Family Support Services
• Homelessness Services
• Youth services
• Court Prison Ministry
• Childrens Services
• Employment services
• Aged care facilities/services
• Family violence services
• Youth refuges
• Mental Health programs
• Drug and alcohol rehabilitation
• Thrift Shops
• Suicide Prevention
• Corps

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Continuum of Development
E M E R G E N Y
CLIENT RELATIONSHIP
CRISIS INTERVENTIONS
Accommodation Youth Refuges Education,
Training Juvenile Justice
Formal Counselling Employment Prog Drug Alcohol
Rehab Material Aid
Domestic Violence Svce Respite care
Emergency Relief

Adult Family Support
Early Childhood Development
Youth Adolescent Support
R E S I L I A N C E
0 - 5
5 - 12
12 - 15
15 - 20
Adulthood
Friendship clubs Household Management Coffee
mornings Relationships counseling
Visiting schools Engagement Youth
Activities Mentoring
Play Groups Parental Educ Parental Support
Homework Clubs Reading Groups Breakfast
club After school group
PERSONAL GROWTH INTERVENTIONS
FRIENDSHIP RELATIONSHIP
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SILOS
CORPS SHOP
CORPS
SALVO STORES NETWORK
AGED CARE
SALVO STORES
SALVO STORES
SOCIAL NETWORK
PSP
DA
SALVO STORES
SALVO STORES
DV
DV
SAAP
SALVO STORES
ACP
Reconnect
DV
JPET
ER
CORPS
AOD SERVICES
CSLING
BRIDGE
AGED CARE
ER
AGED CARE
BRIDGE
SAAP
COURT PRISON WORK
CORPS
CORPS
SCHOOL OUTREACH
EPLUS
EPLUS NETWORK
WFTD
CORPS NETWORK
EPLUS
EPLUS
CORPS
PLAY GROUP
EPLUS
EPLUS
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SHOP
COFFEE SHOP
EPLUS
YOUTH GROUP
CORPS
CORPS
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What Stands in the Way

• Competition
• Government Funding
• Narrowly focused outcomes
• Increased Regulation/Compliance

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Current Government Responses
DEPARTMENTS
AGENCIES
PROGRAMS
TSA
SAAP
DA
DHS
CH.CH GRPS
JN
DEST
BSL
DEWR
ER
SMITH FAMILY
Mental Health
JPET
DET
PTE PVDS
Indig
FACSIA
DOHA
DV
PSP
COM GRPS
POEM
LOCAL GOV
DIAC
Dept Comm
Ethnic
PMC
WFTD
DEN
Spec
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Person Centred
Faith Community
Shelter
Relationship
Work
Counselling
Friendship
Centrelink
Financial Management
Mentoring
Household Help
Fellowship
Nurturing Faith
Family Services
Health Support
Inclusion
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Capacity Building or Deficit Bridging

• DEFICIT BRIDGING
• Client/worker
• Crisis - emergency
• Band Aid
• Short term

• CAPACITY BUILDING
• Seeing the unique value
• Belief in the individual
• Providing opportunities
• Encouraging participation

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Building Individual Community Capacity
Every living person has some gift or capacity of
value to others. A strong community is a place
that recognizes those gifts and ensures
that they are given. A weak community is a place
where lots of people cant give their gifts and
express their capacities. John P.
Kretzmann John L McKnight
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Building Individual Capacity

• Believing in people and helping them to
• believe in themselves.
• Developing trusting relationships.
• Linking them to inclusive communities.
• Helping them to gain a sense of
• connectedness and avoiding social
• isolation.

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Building Community Capacity

• Develop partnerships and collaborations
• with local Churches, agencies and key
• stakeholders.
• Linking government, community and
• business sector.
• Working closely with companies - CSR.

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Holistic Mission

• Clarity of Mission (Theology)

• Commitment to Mission
• Body
• Mind
• Spirit

• Collaborations and partnerships

• People and relationships

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