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On behalf of Team GSC, we would like to warmly welcome you to the Good Shepherd Centre’s LinkedIn page. We hope that you will find it enjoyable, interesting, and rewarding. The Good Shepherd Centre’s purpose is to provide a positive, life changing experience for young people through individual care, education, and skills development. We do this through trying to make sure everything we do upholds our values and principles of kindness, respect, nurture, and relational and rights-based practice. This means we have a strengths-based approach, and we get to know and to understand each young person as an individual and build trust and positive relationships with them. We work with families and other adults in their life to support each young person to move forward from the often-extreme challenges and harm they have experienced. There is a well know proverb or saying; which seems to be common across several different African cultures and languages, which is ‘It takes a village to raise a child’. In the Kijita language the literal translation is that regardless of a child's biological parents, their upbringing belongs to the community. So, for the children and young people at GSC and in our care, we know this means a whole team/whole Centre approach and valuing every colleague in every job role; because whatever our role; we all play our part, working together in the best interests of the children and young people we support. We hope you will learn about our organisation, our purpose and structures, and the different aspects and teams on our campus.