Details and Logistics

Day 1: February 25, 2020 – Northern Region
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. (sign in begins at 8:00 a.m.)
Location: Robert H. Mollohan Research Center, 100 Galliher Drive Fairmont, WV
Note: Registration for this session is now closed.

Day 2: February 27, 2020 – Southern Region
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. (sign in begins at 8:00 a.m.)
Location: Holiday Inn & Suites, 400 2nd Avenue, South Charleston, WV
Note: Registration for this session is now closed.

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Seminar Description:

Educators and school-based staff play important roles in supporting student mental health, often listening to students’ fears and concerns and helping them cope with stressful events. In addition, educators and staff are working long days and often report feeling overwhelmed by juggling many job responsibilities. The effect of this stress can take the form of compassion fatigue, burnout, or secondary traumatic stress which contribute to lower job satisfaction and educator turnover. This one-day training will explore the differences between and strategies to counter fatigue, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress. Participants will also learn strategies to enhance well-being and promote job satisfaction.

Objectives:

  • Participants will be able to describe contributors to and symptoms of compassion fatigue, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress.
  • Participants will gain an understanding of their own experiences with compassion fatigue, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress.
  • Participants will learn strategies to improve their well-being and to counter compassion fatigue, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress.