“Even a Cactus Needs Water”, The Importance of Staff Care

The emotional strain of working in the helping professions can cause burnout, compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma. This impacts staff turnover, effectiveness and affects professional/personal lives. This experiential workshop is a three-layered approach to staff care; organizational, professional and personal. Strategies to manage burnout, vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue, will be reviewed. This is applicable to all staff, including management and support staff, in an agency/program. 3 hours

As a result of this training participants will be able to:

• Describe the difference between burnout, vicarious trauma, and compassion fatigue
• Complete self-assessments for level of compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma and self-care.
• Identify strategies for staff care at the organizational, professional, and personal levels.