Self-Care: Don't Forget to Breathe

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Description:

Stress. Burnout. Turnover. Staff working in human services are often over-worked and underpaid. The work is hard. The stories are overwhelming. As individuals engaged in personally and professionally challenging work, we must care for ourselves so that we are better able to care for others. This unit offers strategies for staff self-care and creating healthy working environments. You will learn what self-care is and is not; how awareness, balance, and connection contribute to self-care; signs of secondary trauma; ways to balance action with mindfulness; and relate care for ourselves to connections with others. 

Who should take this module:

• Managers
• Directors

Learning objectives:

• Recognize the connection between staff turnover, burnout, and vicarious trauma
• Illustrate ways individuals can prevent burnout
• Describe ways to develop healthy working environments

Meet the authors:

Ken Kraybill, MSW, has worked in healthcare, behavioral health, homelessness, and housing for more than 35 years. He has 18 years of experience working as a behavioral health practitioner in homeless services. For the past two decades, he has been developing curricula and facilitating in-person and online training nationally on topics including motivational interviewing, trauma-informed care, outreach and engagement, case management, critical time intervention, and supervision.

Sam Johnston, EdD, focuses on social learning and processes and the use of online and blended learning to support peer-to-peer knowledge transfer. She has conducted design-based research in the fields of mental health care, human services, criminal justice and education in order to find out what various workforces need to continue to learn when engaging in personally and professionally challenging work. She led the creation of C4's online strategy and helped developed a blended learning curriculum for criminal justice and behavioral health professionals. 

Module facts:

• Subject: Self-care
• Length: Most can complete in 1 hour
• Course type: Asynchronous, home study
  • Participants will watch pre-recorded videos and be quizzed on the knowledge they learn afterwards 
• Content level: Introductory
• Covered topics: Self-care, burnout, compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, secondary trauma
• Fees: $50 (unless a basic or advanced subscriber)

Refund and Cancellation policy:

Access is automatically provided to this module once purchased. Therefore, no refund will be given. For special circumstances, C4 may cancel your registration and move your credit to another module of equal value. 

Accommodations 

If you need accommodations for disability, please contact Program Manager, Marsha Kubyshko at training@c4innovates.com.

Grievances 

If you would like to report a complaint, please contact Associate Director, Rachel Ehly at rehly@c4innovates.com. 

Related resources:

• Recovery Oriented Supervision
• Mindfulness & Compassion