OKAY, YOU’RE MOVING FORWARD

• Get the lay of the land:

• Have others in your diocese had a good experience?

• Have prior cases been handled with integrity?

• Consider contacting your diocesan intake officer and asking questions:

• Can I be appointed an advisor from the start?

• Is what I tell you confidential?

• Will you provide a pastoral response? How is that different from pastoral care? (If the intake officer tells you they are one and the same, proceed with great caution, if at all. They are not the same thing!)

• Will you keep me updated? If so, how often?