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CALIFORNIA CHAPLAIN CORPS

CALIFORNIA CHAPLAIN CORPS

WHY LECS911

Why Law Enforcement Community Services (LECS911)

A Global Chaplaincy Mission, Rooted in Trusted Foundations in partnership with the California Chaplain Corps (CCC).

The California Chaplain Corps (CCC) was established to meet a clearly recognized need: providing
consistent, professional, and trusted emotional and spiritual care to public safety personnel and the
communities they serve throughout the State of California.

Law Enforcement Community Services (LECS911) exists because trauma is not confined to one state,
one profession, or one border. Law Enforcement Community Services (LECS911) was created to extend
California Chaplain Corps (CCC) mission nationally and internationally. While Law Enforcement
Community Services (LECS911) works in partnership with shared values of the California Chaplain
Corps. It is intentionally structured to stand independently as a scalable, deployable chaplaincy
organization serving agencies and communities across the United States and around the world.

Clarifying Our Relationship

  • California Chaplain Corps (CCC): A statewide California organization serving public safety departments, state agencies and businesses within California.
  • Law Enforcement Community Services (LECS911): A broader organizational framework that supports, develops, and deploys professional chaplains nationally and internationally. This structure ensures consistency, accountability, and professional integrity wherever Law Enforcement Community Services (LECS911) chaplains serve.

Our Founder and Vision

Senior Fellow Chaplain Mindi Russell established LECS911 after decades of leadership in professional chaplaincy. Her vision was shaped by more than 30 years of service alongside public safety agencies and trauma-impacted communities, both domestically and internationally.

She later formed CCC as the model chaplaincy for the state of California. This P.O.ST. Certified model can be reproduced in any state in the United States.

Her experience includes service with local, state, federal, and international organizations, as well as leadership during major critical incidents and disasters. These experiences revealed a consistent need: chaplaincy services that are standardized, constitutionally sound, trauma-informed, and mutually deployable across agencies and jurisdictions.

LECS911/CCC were created to meet those needs.

From Experience to Structure

Over time, across California, agencies and department’s multiple disciplines-law enforcement,
corrections, fire services, emergency management, schools, churches and community organizations expressed the same challenge: the absence of a unified, professional chaplaincy model that could operate
effectively across systems.