The CE-CERT Skills: Sustaining a Career in the Helping Professions

The CE-CERT Skills: Sustaining a Career in the Helping Professions

Please choose from one of the following dates:

August 12 & 13, 2025-Derryfield Restaurant, Manchester, NH

September 8 & 9, 2025-Derryfield Restaurant, Manchester, NH

December 4 & 5, 2025-Common Man, Plymouth, NH

March 5 & 6, 2026-NH Audubon, Concord, NH

Time: 9:00-4:00pm each day; participants must attend both days to receive continuing education credits

Cost: $250.00

*A light breakfast and buffet lunch will be provided.

Description:

Compassion Fatigue. Burnout. Vicarious Trauma. Secondary Trauma. Terms that overlap and are different in some ways. But all these concepts have one thing in common: they describe the emotional toll that is exacted upon workers in the human services who deal intensively and empathically with persons who are in engaged in an emotional personal struggle. It is a privilege to work in a profession in which caring about those who suffer is the main tool of our work. But caring also takes a toll. Being close to ground zero when people struggle affects the emotional life of those of us who care.

CE-CERT (Components for Enhancing Career Experience and Reducing Trauma) is a suite of skills to support emotional well-being in workers who are exposed to the effects of secondary trauma. But--as in Star Trek, “survival is insufficient.”

Ultimately, the goal of CE-CERT is not merely to survive this work: Rather, the goal is to have a vocation that is uniquely and deeply satisfying.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify what the Components for Enhancing Career Experience and Reducing Trauma are
• Discuss strategies to address provider burnout
• Reflect on the relationship of each of the five skill domains to an individual’s own sense of well-being during times of job strain or secondary trauma

Speakers:

• Brian Miller, Ph.D
• Cassie Yackley, Psy.D.
• Megan Wilson, Psy.D.
• Beth Ketaineck, Psy.D.
• Jenessa Deleault, Psy.D.

Continuing Education:

Nurses:

Southern New Hampshire Area Health Education Center is an approved provider with distinction of nursing continuing professional development by the Northeast Multistate Division Education Unit, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

11.25 contact hours. Activity Number: 1590

Physicians:

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of Southern NH AHEC and Center for Trauma-Responsive Practice Change. The Southern NH AHEC is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Southern New Hampshire Area Health Education Center designates this live activity for a maximum of 11.25 AMA PRA category 1 Credit (s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Social Workers: 11.25 CEUs pending approval from NASW NH.

CHWs: This program has been approved by the Southern New Hampshire Area Health Education Center for 11.25 hours of CHW continuing education.

For all other health professionals: 11.25 hours