From Burnout to Resilience in Child Welfare Work

From Burnout to Resilience in Child Welfare Work

January 6th from 1 pm-4:15 pm EST

Note

This course is offered via Zoom. You will receive additional instructions and a Zoom link in your confirmation email, one week before the training, and we will send another reminder 24 hours before the session starts. They will be sent by training@ihs-trainet.com at the Institute for Human Services. You may want to add it to your contact list to ensure the email comes through. Please check your spam folder in case you don’t receive the first email. Sometimes, employers’ firewalls and filtering services block communication from unrecognizable email addresses. We advise you to include an alternative email address to prevent that.

About the Course

NOTE: This training is a 3-hour virtual session.

Child welfare and related professionals face high risks of burnout due to the demands and emotional intensity of their work. Resilience is not a one-time achievement—it’s an ongoing practice that requires attention at the personal, team, and organizational levels.

In this intermediate, interactive workshop, participants will explore the roots of burnout and evidence-based strategies to build and sustain resilience. Drawing on research from the personal, organizational, and systemic levels, we will examine how professional well-being can be supported individually and collectively. Participants will leave with actionable strategies for personal self-care, team advocacy, and organizational engagement to strengthen resilience in their work.

This training is appropriate for social workers, counselors, psychologists, and other human services professionals seeking practical tools to prevent burnout and build resilience in themselves and their teams.

Participants will be able to:

1. Explain the development and contributing factors of burnout among child welfare professionals.
2. Identify personal, team, and organizational strategies that support professional resilience.
3. Apply personal and self-advocacy strategies to foster resilience at both the individual and team level within agencies.

Continuing Education Credits

This training is approved for 3 Social Work CE Credits. See additional information below.

Institute for Human Services, provider #1802, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards' (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 03/25/2023 – 03/25/2026. Social workers completing this course receive 3 continuing education credits.

To earn CE credits, participants must attend the session in its entirety, remain on camera, complete an evaluation, and pay the $15 CE fee at the time of registration.

The Institute for Human Services understands that circumstances arise that may prevent registrants from attending a pre-paid training. A training and continuing education credit (excluding Eventbrite platform fees and any credit card fees) will be refunded if a registrant cancels their training attendance on the registration platform at least 7 days before the training event. If the registrant does not cancel within 7 days of the continuing education session, no refund will be issued.

View our Grievance and Refund Policy.

Questions? Email training@ihs-trainet.com or contact our office at 614-251-6000 Monday through Friday between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. EST. If you need additional accessibility supports, please contact us in advance of the training to make necessary arrangements.

Reminder: This virtual workshop will take place from 1 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. EST. Please make note of the time zone.

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Laura A. Gaines, MSW, LISW-S

Laura Gaines is a clinical social worker with over 28 years’ experience. She received her Master of Social Work (MSW) degree from The Ohio State University and is a licensed independent social worker. Career experience includes managing group homes for people with developmental disabilities; associate professor at the Nisonger Center, OSU; family service coordinator at Dahlberg Learning Center; and Mental Health Clinician for children and adolescents in private practice.

She develops and presents training for helping professionals in the areas of child and adolescent development and mental health, Social Work Ethics, Individual and Community Resilience, Trauma-Informed Care, and supporting people who are neurodivergent. She is also a volunteer for the Crisis Text Line.