Survival Guide for Superheroes: Managing Productivity and Boundaries to Improve Outcomes for System Involved Youth
Thu, Oct 06
|Online Event
Rachel Michaelsen, LCSW


Time & Location
Oct 06, 2022, 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM PDT
Online Event
About the Event
Rachel Michaelsen, LCSW
Training Description
Timely tracking and monitoring of support provided, meeting productivity requirements, maintaining boundaries, and preventing vicarious traumatization from negatively impacting the support we provide to system involved youth all while making positive connections and impact - that’s being a true SUPERHERO. Learn strategies for sustainable “superheroing” so you can provide the support to system involved youth and their families. We will cover challenges and strategies to address challenges with productivity, professional boundaries and vicarious traumatization and will develop a sustainable superhero plan to address the barriers to successfully meeting the needs of system involved youth and families while staying calm and focused.
Learning Objectives
· Determine at least one emotional block to managing timely and thorough tracking of support for system involved youth and families;
· Identify at least 1 area that boundaries are challenged when supporting system involved youth and 1-2 strategies to address the challenge;
· Identify at least 2 signs of vicarious traumatization and make a plan to address them; and
· Develop a plan to facilitate providing timely support with appropriate boundaries to system involved youth and families.
Agenda
9:00 – 9:30am Introductions, Course Overview, Opening Exercise
9:30 – 9:45am What is and is not working for you getting your job done?
9:45 – 10:30am Challenges and Solution: technical
10:30 – 10:45am BREAK (CE Hours will not be offered for this time)
10:45 – 11:30am Challenges and Solution: technical cont.
11:30am – 12:15pm Challenges and Solution: organizational
12:15 – 12:45pm LUNCH (CE Hours will not be offered for this time)
12:45 – 1:15pm Challenges and Solution: organizational cont.
1:15 – 2:15pm Challenges and Solution: psychological
2:15 – 2:30pm BREAK (CE Hours will not be offered for this time)
2:30 – 3:30pm Challenges and Solution: psychological cont.
3:30 – 4:00pm Sustainable Superhero Plan
4:00pm ADJOURNMENT
Meet Our Trainer
Rachel Michaelsen, LCSW, is a clinical social worker who has worked in HMOs, public agencies, and private practice as both a mental-health provider and a supervisor for more than thirty years. She has taught courses in clinical supervision, law and ethics, diagnoses, childhood psychopathology, vicarious traumatization, trauma informed care and energy psychology at universities, conferences, and mental-health agencies. She provides consultation and supervision to agencies and maintains a private practice.
This course meets the qualifications for (6.0) BBS CE Hours for LCSWs, LMFTs, LPCCs, and LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences & is provided by Fred Finch Youth Center, CAMFT Provider #045295.