Transforming Corrections to Transform Lives Centre
Our vision
To support mothers and their children to have safe, dignified, and fulfilling lives, breaking down intergenerational cycles of disadvantage and incarceration, by transforming systems and generating new knowledge for evidence-based programs.
Our values
RESPECT
for all people and their connections to community and culture is critical for enduring positive change.
KNOWLEDGE
will support positive change for mothers and children facing disadvantage.
EMPOWERMENT
enables individuals and systems to function at their best.
TRANSFORMATION
is possible, for individuals and systems.
Statement of respect
The Transforming Corrections to Transform Lives Centre is committed to equity, compassion, transparency, and respect in delivering its vision. All members of our community have a vital role to play in co-creating a better future for our society. We respect:
- First Nations peoples ways of knowing, doing, and being.
- The physical and emotional safety of mothers, their families and communities, as well as the staff and service providers at all levels who support their journey.
- The right to self-determination and for all to have a voice in decisions affecting their future.
- All people and their relationships.
Acknowledgement of Country
The Transforming Corrections to Transform Lives Centre is based in Meanjin (Brisbane) and delivers the Transform Lives Program from the lands of the Yugarabul, Yuggera, Jagera and Turrbal peoples and the Bindal and Wulgurukaba peoples.
The TCTL Centre acknowledges and pays our deep respect to the traditional owners of the lands on which we work, meet, and learn. We acknowledge they are the traditional custodians of these lands on which we work and have deep continuing connection to the land, waters, sky and community. Sovereignty was never ceded, It always was, always will be, Aboriginal land.