CareSeries Online Summer Courses 2020 Registration

Informed Consent & Group Guidelines

CareSeries offerings are support and informational groups intended to promote encouragement and wellbeing to participants. These offerings do not meet court-ordered requirements or certifications. Documentation of participation is not available from Crossings Community Church.

Informed Consent for Online Groups

Crossings Community Church’s CareSeries Online is a virtual support group using a biblically-based curriculum that helps individuals better understand and respond to their current life stressors. Please be advised that Crossings Community Church’s CareSeries Online is not therapy, nor is it in any way intended to provide substitute for therapy. With few exceptions, our facilitators are lay volunteers, not professional counselors. If at any time a participant feels a need for professional counseling services, the LifeCare Ministry office is available to assist in providing a referral to a community mental health resource.

Any and all information offered by participants will be treated with respect and sensitivity. A strict commitment to group confidentiality is essential for on-going participation, by each group member, during and following their Crossings Community Church’s CareSeries Online.

Please be informed that both ethical and legally mandated exceptions do apply to group material and participant disclosure, and may be shared within the leadership of the Crossings Community Church’s CareSeries Online, for the benefit of both group process and individual benefit. Further, please be aware that to ensure the health and safety of individuals, Oklahoma law stipulates a “Duty to Report” and/or “Duty to Protect”. To ensure the safety of any individual observed liable for “self-harm” or “other-harm”, an appropriate response will need to be taken. Please be informed that the leadership of Crossings Community Church’s CareSeries Online will comply fully with those mandates.

Please be informed that no Crossings Community Church’s CareSeries Online offering is intended to meet criteria for any civil, legal or court-ordered requirement and/or certification. Because of this expressed policy, Crossings Community Church does not/nor will not, provide verification of enrollment, documentation of attendance, nor interrogatives regarding an individual’s participation.

I expressly release and hold harmless Crossings Community Church, its employees, and all other persons working with the church on its behalf, from all liability, loss, damage, claims, or actions for injuries, damages or judgments of any kind which may arise in connections with Crossings Community Church’s CareSeries Online program.

Group Guidelines for Online Groups

The following are guidelines for participating in a CareSeries Online group at Crossings Community Church. Each guideline is designed to create a group environment that is predictable, trustworthy, and safe for those participating. Given that the majority of our groups are open (anyone can attend, anytime), and some groups are co-ed, it is important to uphold respect for every participant in the group. Participants who refuse to follow the guidelines will no longer be allowed to participate in a CareSeries Online group.

1. Confidentiality is a MUST. The only exception to this would be in the event a participant verbally declares intentions to do harm to themselves or someone else, or in the event that child abuse/neglect or elderly abuse or neglect is disclosed.
Participants will need to attend the online group in a private setting. Others may not attend the virtual meeting who have not registered for the group.  

2. Participants are not allowed to record audio/video of group for any reason.  

3. We ask participants to mute their microphone while not speaking to limit distractions.

4. Participants are to be helpful, supportive, but NOT critical and attacking of other group members.  

5. Participants are to focus on sharing their personal experiences or feelings and refrain from giving other participants advice.  

6. Participants are not required to share and are not to be judged based on what they do or do not share.  

7. It is appropriate to talk about both positive and unpleasant feelings within the group.  

8. Weekly contact or communication among group participants (outside of group time) is encouraged for support purposes only and should only be with the same gender (females contacting females, and males contacting males). It is inappropriate for group members of the opposite sex to make one-on-one contact outside of group time.  

9. CareSeries Online is not a dating service. Groups are designed to provide help, support, healing, and growth. It is NOT an environment to encourage dating relationships among group participants. This behavior may result in dismissal from the group.  

10. Due to the material covered and discussed in group, children of any age, including infants, are not allowed to view the group meeting or listen to group material.

Having read the Informed Consent, as well as, the Group Guidelines and declaring full understanding, I,  hereby agree to the above stipulations and provisions regarding my participation in any Crossings

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