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- Encouraging all members of the congregation to have a positive attitude towards each other, especially across generations and cultures.
- Being aware of the spiritual, emotional, physical and social needs of all parishioners and others in contact with the church community, and seeking to fill these needs where it is appropriate.
- Providing dynamic, multi-sensory, inspiring, and creative children’s programmes.
- Having a named person on whom people can call when they have a family crisis or a practical need of some sort. The aim of this is to relieve the immediate stress on families and individuals when emergencies arise.
- Acknowledging that all relationships can benefit from learning and developing relationship skills, and providing opportunities for this, such as programmes, talks, videos and workshops for parents, couples, teens, singles, divorced and separated Catholics, those growing older, the bereaved etc.
- Having an awareness of current child protection policies which within the Catholic community is a collective responsibility. All members must recognise, acknowledge, value and adhere to the policies and procedures that are in place to safeguard and promote the wellbeing of children and vulnerable adults during any activity that takes place within a church context.
- Actively involving adults, and children of all ages, both in the Mass and other liturgies on a regular basis.
- Sharing out responsibilities so that no one family or person is over-burdened with church-related tasks.
- Taking care of our clergy and other church leaders, and their families, by protecting their need for family time too and being sensitive to their individual needs.
- Having a building that is safe and accessible to everyone (ramps, toilets, access, protective railings, etc).
- Being aware of the special needs of larger families, whether two-parent or "blended", with children across a broad age range.
- Being aware of the needs of both men and fathers, and women and mothers, addressing these in a variety of ways. (Men’s groups, women’s groups, sports, work-teams, networking, etc.).
- Reaching out to other families in the local community, using an on-going project.
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