Application for Trust

A limited fund has been established to assist those who have been injured and harmed during their participation in Casey City Church ministries (this term includes the church and its other ministries/businesses). This assistance is strictly for professional therapeutic help in addressing emotional, psychological or spiritual abuse.

This form will be sent securely to the trust’s counselling coordinator ONLY. None of your details will be shared with Larry and Christa Sebastian or any other person except those named in Question 9 or administering the trust itself, which are all independent of Casey City Church. Complete confidentiality is assured.

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Applicant Name *

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Last

Email *

Application is for (click all that apply)

• Self
• Marriage
• Children
• Family

Ages of Children (if selected)

Which years (approximate) did you participate in Casey City church ministries:

Ministries participated in (name all that apply):

• Church
• Music Ministry
• Children/Youth Ministry
• Leadership
• Staff
• 3C Kidz Care
• HASA
• Congregant
• Other (detail below)

Involvement:

Area(s) of responsibility (if any):

Volunteer or paid staff (approximate hours for each per month):

1) What was positive for you at Casey City Church ministries?

Please respond to the following question using a few words or a few sentences.

2) What do you perceive as the cost to you (as opposed to the benefit) of your time at Casey?

Please respond to the following question using a few words or a few sentences.

3) What was the reason you left Casey City Church ministries?

Please respond to the following question using a few words or a few sentences.

4) Do you continue to experience what you view as negative fall-out in your wellbeing or in some area of your life that you attribute to your experience at Casey City Church ministries?

Please respond to the following question using a few words or a few sentences.

5) What kind of help have you sought for your negative fall-out to date?

Please respond to the following question using a few words or a few sentences.

6) What barrier/s to such help have you encountered and/or do you have today?

Please respond to the following question using a few words or a few sentences.

7) Please rate your improvement in wellbeing from what it was like for you before you sought help to what you believe would be no longer experiencing negative fall-out, if zero is “no improvement at all” and ten is that your experiences have been “transformed into healing and growth”?

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8) If you had financial help to see someone who is accredited professionally in one of the disciplines of mental health, would that remove your main barrier to seeking help? Are other factors more important? Please explain.

Please respond to the following question using a few words or a few sentences.

9) Kevin & Jenni Manning and Stuart & Karen Alsop will validate that applications are by people known to be historically associated with Casey City Church ministries. We may potentially contact one other person historically associated with Casey City Church ministries if you would like to add a person who knew more about your involvement. If you would like this, please contact the person to obtain their permission and then give their name and contact details here.

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These four nominated persons will validate the basic information provided so that the trustees can verify that the applicants are genuine. They will not be provided with your responses to the ten questions asked

Comment or Message

10) Applicants will need to have an interview with the counselling coordinator of the trust, Dr. Judith Wilkie, to help determine what kind of help you may need and whether the Trust may help.

Please provide your contact phone number here.

Thank you for your honesty. This form goes directly to Dr. Judith Wilkie – Chrysalis Care and Counselling Network. If you have any further comments or questions please include this below.

Secure Submission

This form will be sent securely to the trust’s counselling coordinator ONLY. None of your details will be shared with Larry Sebastian or Christa Sebastian or with any other person except those named in Question 9 or administering the trust itself, and these are all independent of Casey City Church. Complete confidentiality is assured.

Casey Trust to Assist Mental Health Recovery of Affected Former Participants in Casey City Church

Rationale

Casey City Church asked external pastors Revs. Graeme Cann, Peter McHugh, Allan Meyer, Jeremy Rensford and Johnny Scroggins to serve as temporary elders. They were to examine the complaint that many persons who had left the church had experienced emotional, psychological and spiritual harm, and to examine an attempt to respond. The elders later invited Rev Judith Wilkie to join them in an Advisory Panel facilitating this process. The Panel concluded that harm of this nature did occur, and agreed to the request of Pastor Kevin Manning for a trust fund to be established from the funds of Casey City Church in order to financially assist such persons to receive mental health care. The Casey Trust Fund was legally established in Jan 2024 and will become operative once it is funded. Its duration will be for up to three years, with finite funding that either will run out in accomplishing its purpose or finally will be donated to relevant charity.

Purpose of Trust

The Trust is established to support psychological and spiritual recovery with the help of suitably qualified practitioners. The goal is to assist as many as possible of the affected persons to move in the direction of health, functional living and the ability to relate positively to God and to a Christian community. The assumption is that healing and transformation is part of a lifetime process led by God, completed in glory, and involving many personal choices and types of relationships. The hope is that those who have experienced damage can be reset by love in a direction that will be life-giving. The professional world of mental health care includes many types of practitioners. The person who desires help is free to choose the helper desired, such as for example a psychologist, counsellor, marriage and family therapist, mental health social worker, spiritual director or chaplain. In order to qualify for fund assistance, the practitioner must be accredited by a recognised body in their area of practice and must do more therapeutic work than prescribe medications or life coaching. The Trust does not address every aspect of life recovery, such as lost wages or physical medical costs.

Procedures for Assistance

If you believe you are eligible for assistance and wish to apply, complete the designated application. Applications will be verified by long-term former pastors and elders of Casey City Church (Kevin and Jenni Manning and Karen and Stuart Alsop). The Counselling Coordinator of the Trust will then interview those who meet the criteria.

If the applicant is already under the care of a qualified practitioner for their needs, they are encouraged to continue with that professional, and their application for financial assistance can begin from the establishment date of the trust. For those who have not yet identified a suitable helper, the trust’s counselling coordinator will offer referral information to aid in the search. Upon approval of an application, funds will be disbursed after each verified professional session.

Verification will be facilitated through the submission of a professional invoice from the practitioner or a receipt for services paid by the recipient. These documents should be forwarded to the financial manager of the Trust. The funds may cover the entire session, be applicable after deducting the Medicare (or Workcover) rebate, or have other limitations such as session costs or a specified number of sessions.