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With concerns regarding suicidal thoughts or attempts we may Reliant typically will require (depending on the situation) an additional condition of counselor recommendation before acceptance if the event director and Reliant are still in favor of moving forward.    

The potential condition for acceptance is that we would like the participant to sign a waiver with their counselor that allows the program director (or program director and local pastor) to be able to call the counselor and get their recommendation on whether they think the participant should attend the program or not.  We want the program director to be on the waiver because we want to have the ability to contact the counselor to keep the lines of communication open over the summer if a follow up conversation becomes necessary. However, we would be open to allowing a local pastor to be that person as well if the local pastor is also attending the program with them to continue following up. The participant’s acceptance is conditional on them signing the waiver and the director/local pastor being able to talk with the counselor.  If they do not want to sign the waiver then that shows (an unwillingness to co-operate instead of that they are potentially hiding something) and Reliant may decided that it is not willing to accept them due to liability. If the counselor does not recommend them attending the program then in general Reliant will not accept them. If after talking to the counselor, the program director is now not convinced that they should be accepted,  even if the counselor says it’s fine then we will not accept them.

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