The Importance of Managing Compassion Fatigue within Efforts to Support System Involved Youth

Waynette Brock and Melissa Wallace

Training Description

Identifying and understanding compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma, which are known as the “hazards of the trade,” is important to maintain wellness. Anyone who supports system involved youth and families are vulnerable to these hazards. Through this experiential training, participants will explore their own experiences with these subjects, learn ways to build resilience, and gain strategies to effectively prevent or manage them and improve outcomes for system involved youth.

Learning Objective

· Participants will be able to explain compassion fatigue and identify at least 2 risk factors for developing compassion fatigue.

· Participants will be able to identify three different ways in which boundaries add to healthy relationships and reduce the likelihood of vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue.