Our aim at Crisis Centre Ministries is to build relationships
with the people who comes to us, with the intention of being able
to help them move forward and discover a better life.
Inevitably, quite a bit of our work involves helping people
get access to the help which is provided (or which is supposed to
be provided) by the state. And we find that various bits of the
system do not work the way we understand they should, or the way
they should work sometimes seems wrong.
We do not want to pretend we have all the answers. But we
cerainly have a number of questions. And by asking these questions,
and by using them to build a dialogue with the people who can
influence, change or help to shape the system, maybe we can play
some part in helping build a system which works more effectively to
help those who it is supposed to be helping.
The Issues
The key areas where we have concerns and questions can be
summarised as follows.