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Even a Cactus Needs Water: The Importance of Staff Care
Date
Feb 27, 2025
Time
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Location
Virtual
Topic
Presenter(s)
Eileen Russo, MA, LADC
The emotional strain of working in the helping professions can cause burnout, compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma. This impacts staff turnover, effectiveness and affects professional/personal lives. Without effective coping mechanisms caregivers can become frustrated, overwhelmed and immobilized.
This experiential workshop is a three-layered approach to staff care; organizational, professional and personal. In addition to receiving information on topics such as vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue, participants will engage in exercises related to re-connection, spirituality and mindfulness practices.
This webinar is ideal for organizations working with vulnerable populations, especially frontline staff and volunteers.
For questions or changes in registration, please contact Allison Abramson.
About the Presenter
EILEEN M. RUSSO, M.A., is a licensed addiction counselor, a certified clinical supervisor, and an advanced certified alcohol and drug counselor who has worked in the addiction and mental health field for the past 39 years. Ms. Russo also holds credentials as a relapse prevention specialist and a compassion fatigue educator. She has recently retired as Program Coordinator and Professor Emeritus for the Drug and Alcohol Recovery Counselor program with Gateway Community College in New Haven, Conn.
For 19 years, she has been a trainer/consultant with the CT Women’s Consortium, the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, private agencies, and several states beyond Connecticut. Ms. Russo has assisted over 40 agencies/programs with developing trauma-informed programs, including those who provide services for mental health and substance use disorders, employment, and criminal justice programs. Ms. Russo has co-authored articles on the integration of trauma-specific services into treatment for substance use disorders and is a co-author of the curriculum Healing Trauma+: A Brief Intervention for Women and Gender-Diverse People, Third Edition, by Stephanie Covington.