This training explores issues caregivers face in recognizing and mitigating vicarious trauma so they can take good care of themselves in order to support others.

Emotional and physical exhaustioncan affect helping professionals and caregivers over time. It’s associated with gradualdesensitizationto client stories, adecrease in quality carefor clients,higher rates of depression and anxietydisorders among helpers. The most insidious aspect of compassion fatigue is that it attacks the very core of what brings helpers into this work: their empathy and compassion for others.

This six-hour virtual or in-person training qualifies for continuing education credits. It can be delivered in one day or broken down into two three-hour presentations delivered over a couple of days.

This training explores issues caregivers face in providing a nurturing and supportive environment for people in their care with special needs.

Caregiving for a person with special needs is an enormously rewarding endeavor filled with satisfaction, caring, and love. It is also an ever-changing field filled with challenges and pitfalls that can test our ability to perform duties with empathy and compassion for others and ourselves. Maintaining a caring relationship and being available for another often means opening ourselves up and exposing our own human vulnerabilities. If we can cultivate an approach to caregiving that includes an openness to learning from our failures we are often rewarded with increased ease in our duties, more joy in our day, and healthier relationships.

This three-hour virtual or in-person training qualifies for continuing education credits.

This training explores issues caregivers face working in the current pandemic climate.

Using the COVID–19 pandemic lens participants learn to define and differentiate key concepts: Chronic stress, allostatic load, compassion fatigue, resilience and mindfulness. We will explore the effects of stress on overall functioning, discuss strategies and techniques for self–care, and develop skills to recognize signs of over stress in ones-self and others.

This three-hour virtual or in-person training qualifies for continuing education credits.

This training is intended to explore issues that program managers face maintaining residential properties and group homes.

In this workshop participants will learn to identify potential electrical & fire hazards within a residential setting, recognize and mitigate common water/moisture issues, and createand execute a weatherization plan. You will also be able to design and implement a quarterly property inspection program to identify and document emergent and potential issues, and to discern when to consult a licensed contractor verses “DIY”.

This is a three-hour virtual or in-person training.

This training explores critical issues all humans face when dealing with significant loss.

Professionals in the human services field regularly work with the experiences of loss, grief, and morning. The ability to work constructively with our own feelings allows us to room to be supportive of clients and co-workers while empowering ourselves; honoring the loss, and being able to step forward into the light.

This two-hour virtual or in-person training qualifies for continuing education credits.