Christian City Church is the brainchild of Minister Phil Pringle, who is also the Senior Minister of CCC Oxford Falls. With over 200 Christian City Churches world wide they are also known as C3iglobal.
To refresh the current situation pertaining to this Christian City Church blog, it involves Christian City Church Whitehorse and the welfare organisation Christian City Care. It directly concerns a Mr Ryan who was employed by the Board of Directors of CCCare/CCCW in 2003 to be the CCCare Welfare Worker.
Fact is Mr Ryan was not a qualified Welfare Worker.
Fact is he was unqualified to perform the duties of a Welfare Worker.
Unqualified means:
Not qualified; not fit; lacking requisite qualifications: unqualified for the job.
Mr Ryan's position within CCCare was not just a matter of accessing clients for food hampers or to source out accommodation or material aid. What makes this matter troubling is some of the clients Mr Ryan was dealing with had alcohol and drug abuse issues. Some clients also had mental issues, abuse issues and what I'd call substantial life management issues.
Mr Ryan was given carte blanche authority by CCCare to assist these clients with the above issues.
For instance, I was witness to many occasions when Mr Ryan bought alcohol for alcoholics. A number of times he'd taken clients who were alcoholics to the pub. He'd even formed friendships with clients outside of CCCare and would invite clients to his home for a BBQ and drinks.
Most people would realise that you don't give an alcoholic alcohol. Transpose this to a Welfare Worker and they would certainly have the training to know that giving alcohol to an alcoholic is a no no. But Mr Ryan the (so called) welfare worker for Christian City Care had no clue!
In another display of the CCCare's bogus welfare workers inapt abilities, he had a client (lets call her Ann).
Anne came from an abusive relationship, had a history of being incarcerated, had a teenager son (who was removed from here care) and had a history of drug abuse. At the time Ann was on the methadone program.
Ann was being housed in a medium term women's accommodation program. A two bedroom unit in an eastern suburb of Melbourne. The apparent residential conditions of this unit was that Ann must live there by herself.
However Mr Ryan had a problem. Two of his CCCare clients were desperately in need of accommodation. In additions one of these clients had a drug abuse issue, whilst the other was an alcoholic. Instead of respecting the fact that Ann had issues also, he manipulated Ann into allowing these two men to reside at her unit.
Not only did this place Ann at risk of relapsing back to her substance abuse, but, it also directly jeopardised Ann's accommodation conditions.
Unfortunately not long after these two men moved into Ann's residence trouble commenced. Ann began drinking and smoking drugs. When both men were asked to leave, one complied, whilst the other turned nasty and reported Ann to the organisation that had given her the housing.
Ann's return to drugs, could have been prevented and the obvious risks should have been avoided.
When you have a welfare organisation (CCCare) passing Mr Ryan off as a Social/Welfare Worker, (and allowing this person to do the same), situations such as what happen to Ann, the alcoholics and any client of Christian City Care who dealt with Mr Ryan (CCCare bogus Welfare Worker) is an inevitable outcome.
It's a pity that Mr Ryan did not hold insight to realise he was in over his head. It's also sad state of affairs when a registered Welfare Organisation in Victoria, CCCare, were incapable of seeing the damage that Mr Ryan was/ had caused to clients of CCCare.
Unfortunately both Christian City Care and Christian City Church Whitehorse refuse to take any accountability for Mr Ryan's actions.
Let's just hope that due to Mr Ryan's lack of qualifications and bogus Social/Welfare Worker status, he has not caused any of his CCCare clients who suffered mental illness, alcohol/drug abuse issues or other serious problems any physical harm, abuse or worse.
As I was also a client of Mr Tony Ryan, Christian City Church Whitehorse being a Church of 3Ciglobal and Christian City Churches, that Senior Minister Phil Pringle needs to address the lack of accountability at CCCW and CCCare.
Both Minister Phil Pringle and Christian City Church Oxford Falls have been advised on three separate occasions about these welfare issues. However to date no response has been received.
Labels: alcoholic-welfare, C3iglobal, CCC-Oxford-Falls, Christian-Chity-Church-Whitehorse, Christian-City-Care, Christian-City-Churches, drug-abuse-organisations, drug-abuse-welfare, Minister-Phil-Pringle
