Description

This course covers the ways to combat compassion fatigue when working with families in trauma, including how to maintain your resiliency while hearing stories of trauma. This course provides tips on self-care while working with families and afterward. This course will discuss consequences that will arise while working in trauma and give examples of how to prevent burnout, secondary traumatic stress, and vicarious trauma. This program will benefit not only CASAs but those practitioners who work with clients in trauma, including those in social work, law, and therapy, as it touches on issues of trauma. Participants will walk away with a toolbox of strategies designed specifically to prevent compassion fatigue — no matter the setting or specialty. These strategies will help them manage emotions, reduce anxiety, avoid feeling overwhelmed, maintain focus and fulfillment, navigate the road between caring too much and being too burnt out to care, prioritize personal health, initiate positive change, and successfully transition from work to home life.

Continuing Education Accreditation

• Approved: 1.25 hour Sup.R.48 and 1.25 CLE

Trainer

Tim Green – Executive Director, Voices for Children – Lorain County CASA/GAL 

Tim Green has served as the Executive Director of the Voices for Children, Lorain County CASA Program for over two decades and has been employed with the Lorain County Domestic Relations Court since 1990.  He holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Hillsdale College which he obtained in 1988.