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Self-Care is NOT Selfish: 10 Creative Tools for Boosting Your Resiliency

Speaker(s):

Glidden, Kay, MS

Reynolds-Lewis, Beth, BS

Presentation:

You have been working very hard most recently through a global pandemic. You are balancing your family needs and you are working diligently to meet the demands of the people you serve.

We now have over two decades of research that working in high stress, trauma-exposed professions carries risk to the staff.

The level of compassion fatigue staff experience can ebb and flow from one day to the next. Even very healthy staff with optimal life/work balance and self-care strategies can experience compassion fatigue.

Participants will improve their understanding of compassion fatigue, secondary trauma and burnout and will be given ten practical take-away tools, resources and strategies to include in daily self-care planning for improving health and resiliency.

Objectives:

  1. Define compassion fatigue, secondary trauma and burnout.
  2. Identify the signs and symptoms of compassion fatigue, secondary trauma and burnout.
  3. Utilize ten hands-on tools and resources for building resiliency.
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Providing Effective Staff Supervision using Trauma Informed Care Practices

Speaker(s):

James, Belinda, MSW, LCSW

Presentation:

This workshop will provide attendees with a foundation of knowledge on trauma informed care supervision. Professional development stages of staff will be reviewed to identify effective supervision strategies. Motivational interviewing skills will be practiced to address staff productivity, emotional wellness, compassion fatigue and burnout.

Objectives:

  1. Review central principles of supervision
  2. Increase awareness of cultural and contextual factors in supervision
  3. Practice trauma informed care strategies to address compassion fatigue and burnout

 

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Careers in Social Work: Life Transforming Opportunities to Help Others

Speaker(s):

Memmott, Jay, MSW, Ph.D.

Presentation:

Social work is a multifaceted profession committed to the improvement of human well-being by helping people meet their basic and often complex needs, with a particular emphasis on those who are vulnerable, oppressed, marginalized, and living in poverty. Drawing on his own 40+ years of experience as a social worker, Dr. Memmott will discuss why social work, with its focus on social, economic, and environmental justice, is a viable career path in the 21st Century. In addition, Dr. Memmott will demonstrate how social work is a profession that can be a catalyst for life-transforming changes in families, communities, and other social systems.


Objectives:

  1. Describe the mission of social work.

  2. Distinguish between a profession and an occupation–and explain why the distinctions matt

  3. Identify the three levels of social work practice

  4. Name at least three types of job that social workers perform.

  5. Explain how social work differs from other professions/occupations.

 

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Reynolds-Lewis, Beth BS

Beth Reynolds Lewis, BS, is a compassion fatigue specialist, trauma informed care trainer and Registered Yoga Teacher. Her experience includes 30+ years as a Child Welfare case manager, a Forensic Interviewer, and work in a public behavioral health system. Beth is a co-owner of Compassion Resiliency, a training and consultation company that promotes the well-being of professionals who work in high stress/trauma-exposed work environments.

Presentation(s): 

Self-Care is NOT Selfish: 10 Creative Tools for Boosting Your Resiliency


 

 

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Memmott, Jay, MSW, Ph.D.

Jay Memmott earned a BA in English at the University of Utah, and both his MSW and Ph.D. (in social work) at the University of Kansas. He has worked as a social worker in inpatient and outpatient mental health and substance abuse treatment settings, hospice and home health care, managed mental health care, and private practice. Jay has been a social work faculty member at the University of Oklahoma, Saint Louis University, Washburn University, and the University of South Dakota. At Park University, Jay serves as the director of the graduate social work program. He is a member of the Academy of Certified Social Workers (ACSW), the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), and the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE). Since 2002, Jay has been affiliated with the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB), an international organization that develops and administers licensing examinations for baccalaureate, masters, and post-graduate social workers in both the U.S. and Canada. Jay’s current research and scholarly interests include the processes of change, mental health and substance abuse treatment and recovery, indigenous helping, and couple/family therapy.

 

Presentation(s): 

Careers in Social Work: Life Transforming Opportunities to Help Others

How to Improve Your Community: Encourage and Promote Indigenous Helping


 

 

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James, Belinda, MSW, LCSW

Belinda James is a passionate advocate for children, youth and families. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, a Missouri Family Development Credential from the University of Missouri – Kansas City, a Master degree in Social Work from The Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, and training in Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy from the Medical University of South Carolina.

For the past 25 years, Belinda has provided parent workshops and professional development training in the areas of sexuality health, mental health including trauma informed care, motivational interviewing, substance use, suicide prevention and adolescent development. She has also taught in the field of social work as an adjunct instructor at Washington University in St. Louis. As a licensed Clinical Social Worker, she counsels women who are homeless, pregnant and may have mental health, chemical dependency issues and extensive trauma backgrounds. In addition, she is responsible for an innovative program that provides psychoeducation on behavioral health and parent education/support to pregnant and parenting teens in the St. Louis Public School system.


Presentation(s): 

Providing Effective Staff Supervision using Trauma Informed Care Practices


 

 

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Glidden, Kay, MS

Kay Glidden, MS, is a compassion fatigue specialist, trauma informed care trainer and mindfulness educator. Her experience stems from 30+ years as a mental health professional and work in a public behavioral health system. Kay is a co-owner of Compassion Resiliency, a training and consultation company that promotes the well-being of professionals who work in high stress/trauma-exposed environments.