Child Welfare / Social Services
Recharging Your Battery: Self-Care and Everyday Wellness in Social Services
A wellness program for Child Protective and Social Services staff. Provides a compassionate and courageous examination of child welfare/social services culture and the cumulative impact of a career in this profession. Staff, front line supervisors, and administrators are at increased risk for a myriad of physical, emotional, and relational challenges related to the work. We bravely ask participants to shift from a client-focused perspective to a trauma-informed self-reflection. Provide 4-hour training to bring awareness of the risk factors associated with a career in Child Welfare. Through the program, social services staff of all levels learn about workplace trauma, secondary traumatic stress, burnout, and moral injury. Just as important as understanding the risk factors, Child Welfare and Social Services staff are provided with the resources and tools to develop and implement individualized self-care plans, and the agency is provided with the resources to develop a sustainable wellness program for their staff.
Heart Felt Protection: A 1.5 Hour Presentation
Participants will learn about primary trauma, secondary traumatic stress, burnout, and moral injury. Participants will explore how their own ACEs make them both good at the job and increase vulnerability to being harmed by the work. The goal of this workshop is to provide participants with the language necessary to have conversations about the impact of the work; it’s the fundamental trauma-informed shift from ‘what’s wrong with you’ to a compassionate understanding of ‘what is happening’ for staff in this profession. We bravely ask participants to shift from a client-focused perspective to a trauma-informed self-reflection. Presenters will model this paradigm shift by sharing their lived experience through evidenced-based research; it’s real talk about the cost of the job.