Our Pilosophy of Service

Fusion’s Philosophy of service is based on our grass roots experience of outreach in Australian Society and the integration of Christian values.

More specifically, this philosophy incorporates the following convictions:

a) Each person has unique and priceless worth, and will reach their full potential and find fulfilment in life, only in the context of community as they become more loving, finding creative ways of responding to and in the world around them, and are true to themselves, enjoying honest relationships and become responsible and autonomous in life.

b) Society can only become stable and healthy when its people and structures operate with values of justice, mercy and reconciliation, held as primary.

c) The rapid rate of change has increased the potential for alienation at all levels of society and placed stress on existing networks and created a need for new structures to provide support to individuals.

d) Young people particularly are the responsibility of their communities and the community needs to support the family unit in carrying out its responsibility of raising children.

e) Community involvement and development happens most effectively through networks. Creating networks and enabling community response and action is a process of researching and understanding the needs in the community, researching the resources in the community and bringing them together in a mutually satisfying way.

Upholding these concepts has many practical implications in the provision of our services to the community:

·         In order to uphold the individual and unique worth of each person, and promote growth, projects need to be flexible, personal and non-institutional in nature.

·         We are wary of creating dependencies on us or our services, and aim to assist people towards independence and healthy interdependence.

·         Each person is involved in decision making to the extent that the outcome of the decision affects their life.

·         We believe that no person or service can survive and grow healthily, if they exist in isolation. Support, development, networking and liaison in the community are seen as priorities.

·         Services provided to meed immediate needs of the community should operate in such a way as to be part of the solution to the problem, by acknowledging the causes and working together to remove them.