Our Mission
To provide high quality, professional and accessible services and programmes to address the needs of the Kildare community, and existing/retired defence forces members and their families.
Our Values
To provide high quality, professional and accessible services and programmes to address the needs of the Kildare community, and existing/retired defence forces members and their families.
Respect
- We believe that everyone deserves respect which means honouring and valuing other people and their life experiences. Our work embraces the collaborative process between individuals and families with centre staff.
Social Justice Advocacy
- We believe that each person or family has an equal right to support, regardless of ethnicity, gender orientation, or social class. Thus we advocate for a more socially just society guided by the vision of human rights that may include awareness of socio-economic inequities and the protection of social rights.
Confidentiality
- We provide a safe and supportive confidential services for people facing a wide range of challenges in their lives. The aim is that when a person or family feels comfortable they will begin open up which enables the supports being offered to be used.
Quality and Evidence-Informed
- We expect that our work is at the highest standards of implementation and that we employ practises ground in empirical evidence of effectiveness.
Accountability and Transparency
- We believe that Accountability and transparency are two important elements of good governance. In being accountable and transparent, we act with integrity and continually learn from our success and our mistakes.
Needs-led & Strength-based
- We offer support and services that is responsive to the emergent needs of the individuals and families we work with on a daily basis. Individuals are co-producers of support rather than passive consumers. Strengths-based valuing capacity, skills, knowledge, connections and potentials of individuals and families.
Trauma-Informed
- We realize the impact of trauma & the potential recovery paths
- We recognizes the signs and symptoms of trauma;
- We respond by integrating knowledge about trauma into policies, procedures, and practices; and
- We actively resist re-traumatization.