Your permission is requested for your child,{youthName} to receive group counseling at West Bend Library with the Youth and Family Project (YFP). YFP offers free, confidential counseling services to youth in need of support and their families. If your permission is granted, your child will be matched with a masters-trained mental health counseling provider.
Counselor: Jordan Markiewicz, LPC-IT
E-mail: jmarkiewicz@YouthAndFamilyProject.org
Because counseling is based on a trusting relationship between counselor and client, the counselor will keep information shared by the client confidential except in certain situations in which an ethical responsibility limits confidentiality. It is important to the therapy process that he/she does not think the parent and the therapist are conspiring against him/her in any way. There are times when students divulge information that should be shared with parents. The counselor will encourage them to do so or request permission to discuss the matter with a parent or guardian. This will be done when the counselor feels it is in the best interest of your son or daughter. As mandated reporters, there are also several situations in which YFP counselors are required by law to share details of a counseling session with the appropriate authorities. These situations include:
- Situations in which the counselor believes that the student is a threat to himself/herself or others
- When the communications involve information regarding child abuse, child neglect, or abuse of the elderly
- When the communications involve information regarding inappropriate sexual contact with a minor child
- When the client becomes a litigant in a court proceeding
- When the counselor discusses case work with his/her individual and/or group supervisor
By signing this form, I give my informed consent for my child to participate in counseling. I understand that anything that my child shares will be kept confidential except in the above-mentioned cases.