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City of South Bend EAP Contract Page 6 Prepared on July 19, 2016 assessments are required to maintain a position of neutrality, objectivity, and advocate for neither the employer nor the employee. At the Company's request, New Avenues will arrange an assessment with a psychologist or psychiatrist to make an evaluation as to the employee's ability to perform his/her work duties, the existence of psychological difficulties that may interfere with an employee's ability to perform his/her essential job duties, or for assessment of risk for harm to self or others, dangerousness, and/or the probability of recurrence of incidents related to work performance. In order to maximize the impartiality and objectivity, New Avenues has adopted a standard not to arrange evaluations with a practitioner who has acted as a treating Provider to the employee (if applicable), and secondly, employees generally will not be referred to the Evaluator for follow-up treatment. In order to conduct our role and meet confidentiality standards, the Company will need to obtain from the employee at the time of the referral an Authorization for Release of Information for the exchange of information between the Professional Evaluator and New Avenues and an Authorization for Release of Information for the exchange of information between the Provider and the Company. New Avenues acts solely in the role of facilitating referrals and communication regarding a fitness -for -duty referral(s). The Company is solely responsible for any actions taken or decisions made regarding the employee's status for returning to work, accommodation, and conditions of employment or employment actions. New Avenues does not assume responsibility and the Company agrees it will not hold New Avenues responsible for the findings, assessment, treatment recommendation(s), treatment, outcomes, determinations, or any other actions or inactions taken by the Provider performing the fitness -for -duty assessment. The Company further agrees that New Avenues is not responsible and will not hold it responsible for any action(s) taken by the Company as a result of the Evaluator's report. The professional fees for the fitness -for -duty assessments vary in price depending on the professional and the need for psychological testing, etc. Such evaluations are typically the financial responsibility of the employer unless the employer expects the employee to accept financial responsibility for such testing. Many of these evaluations may be covered through the employee's insurance program. We will provide these services as agreed upon in Exhibit A. H. Work -Life Services. New Avenues will provide access to the New Avenues Work - Life Resource Center web based program via our website at www.NewAvenuesOnline.com. We will provide these services as agreed upon in Exhibit A. The fee for the selected Work -Life Program is addressed in Section XII and consists of the following services. Fundamental Web Work -Life Program ❖ Web based online program for information, interactive assessments, articles on variety of health, wellness, family life and work related areas, New Avenues