Prioritizing the social-emotional needs of students is essential to academic and life success. To do so, we must prioritize the social-emotional needs of the professionals who are serving them. We cannot give what we don't have! This empowering, interactive session will speak to enhancing our overall wellness both personally and professionally as educators/child advocacy professionals. Through a comprehensive, practitioner-based approach found in the presenter's book, we will examine how secondary trauma and/or personal trauma can lead to compassion fatigue and why it can impede effective self-care. Remembering our power of influence, participants will be resourced with strategies for mental, physical, emotional, and professional health with the goal of positioning ourselves for HOPE and overall wellness.
