Hurry! Registration Ends at Noon November 27! Secondary Trauma Virtual Workshop with Pam Hamilton

Stressed Out, Burnt Out and Hoping for a Way Out? Resiliency Practices for Professionals Serving Others 

Remaining resilient can be a challenge! Although our work is very rewarding, it is a field that can lead to burnout, secondary stress, and compassion fatigue - especially with the added challenges post-pandemic. This workshop is designed to give you the tools needed to enhance your resiliency and to embrace self-care. The benefits of healthy stress, indicators of burnout, and secondary stress are explored, as well as understanding and practicing regulation of the nervous system. Other foundational practices that both prevent and promote resiliency will be presented, with engagement from the participants. 

Come ready to engage and re-invigorate!

Objectives 

Participants will:

  1. Be able to state the difference between burnout, secondary stress, and compassion fatigue

  2. Complete burnout and self -care screening tool

  3. Identify and participate in specific practices to raise resiliency

Zoom link will be sent to registered attendees the day before the training.

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Pam Hamilton, LSCSWS LCSW, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, a Certified Compassion Fatigue Professional, trained in EMDR and certified in the treatment of Complicated Grief through Columbia University’s Center for Complicated Grief.
 She is in private practice providing therapy and consultations.Visit her website at www.HamiltonCandC.com.

Virtual Lunch Hour Workshop: Adverse Childhood Experiences and Substance Use

Adverse Childhood Experiences and Substance Use

January 30, 12:00 PM — 1:00 PM

Description: In this training we will:

  1. Discuss the ACEs model and research,

  2. Explore Positive Childhood Experiences,

  3. Learn how to use ACEs, PCEs, and resiliency strategies to help families.

Presenter Bio: Stacy Haines is a Community Support Specialist at DCCCA, providing substance misuse prevention training and technical assistance to communities in the central Kansas region. She began work in prevention in 2005 and has served communities in both Kansas and Indiana as a prevention specialist and as a Drug Free Communities Grant Director. Stacy has a bachelor’s degree in communication from Pittsburg State University (Go Gorillas!) and is a trainer for Mental Health First Aid, Youth Mental Health First Aid, Prevention Ethics, INDEPTH Youth Tobacco Intervention, N-O-T Youth Tobacco Cessation, and Overdose and Naloxone Training.

Cost: $15

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Virtual Lunch-Hour Workshop: Opioid Overdose Prevention

Opioid Overdose Prevention and Medication Safety

October 30, 12:00 -- 1:00 pm

This presentation will provide participants up-to-date information on opioid trends, opioid overdose prevention, naloxone administration, and best practices for medication safe use, storage, and disposal. Participants will learn how to access free resources for themselves or families they serve including naloxone, medication disposal bags, and devices for storing medication safely in the home.

 Presenter: Deanne Armstrong, Prevention Advisor

Deanne has been with DCCCA for 12 years and in the prevention field for over 20. Her prevention experience started in Nebraska before moving to Kansas in 2007. She began as a community mobilizer, served as a Drug Free Community program director, a grant manager and was the coordinator of a 12-county coalition. She believes in prevention and that community people solve community problems best. Deanne enjoys providing consultation, technical assistance and training to community coalitions and stakeholders to assist them with addressing behavioral health needs with evidence-based approaches.

Cost: $15

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First in a series of 3 Lunch-Hour Workshops:

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