Feeling stressed out, overwhelmed, cynical, agitated, restless, and/or hopeless when you're at work or after your shift ends? If you're a social worker, treatment counselor, healthcare provider, first responder, human services, provider, educator, or any other "helping" type job you could be experiencing compassion fatigue.

As a 'helper' it's important to recognize the warning signs and learn how to assist yourself and develop coping skills to avoid complete burnout.

In this interactive workshop participants will:

• Identify the definitions and symptoms of burnout and compassion fatigue.

• Apply compassion fatigue theory and statistics to personal and career experience.

• Assess risk factors, preventive factors, and coping skills for compassion fatigue.

• Rate the community impact of the opioid epidemic and identify support systems to address the effects of compassion fatigue on service providers.

About the instructor:

Pam Kuras, MSW, LCSW, GC-C is a licensed therapist and certified grief counselor. Pam owns Johnston Integrative Counseling (https://www.jococounseling.com/) in Benson, NC, and completed advanced training in Complicated Grief Therapy. Pam provides individual grief therapy and facilitates grief support groups for a variety of specialty populations, including survivors of substance misuse-related death. Pam leads the HEAT Grief Support Group in collaboration with the US Attorney’s Office-EDNC Heroin Education Action Team. Pam also serves her community as a hospice and bereavement social worker and a registered yoga and meditation teacher.

Mountain Area Health Education Center designates this continuing education activity as meeting the criteria for __0.3__ CEUs as established by the National Task Force on the Continuing Education Unit. Training sponsored by: United Way of Rutherford County and MAHEC .

Training funded by United Way of Rutherford County's HRSA RCORP Opioid Strategic Planning Grant.