KHSA Receives Safe Kids Kansas Award

From Safe Kids Kansas:

Kansas Head Start Association was recognized last week with an Outstanding Partnership for Child Safety award. KSHA. has partnered with Safe Kids Kansas to provide safety education to Home Visitors, and access to home safety devices to provide to the families they serve. In addition, they have distributed safety-themed books provided by Safe Kids Kansas to their Head Start families, encouraging reading to children while sharing important safety tips to parent and child. KHSA Executive Director Heather Schrotberger is pictured above with the award.

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.

PLEASE READ THIS: We are changing our registration platform! The new platform is a little easier to use; everything is on one web page! You’ll see the event description, scroll down for tickets, scroll down a bit more for billing information. That’s it! If you have any trouble at all, please don’t hesitate to contact us! PS: there are no discount codes for this event.

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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Flyer with registration for all three workshops on substance use disorder>>