December 2022

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Event Description

Refuel, Re-Energize: Beam Up Motivation, Resiliency, & Heal Our Collective Trauma

It is time to Re-Fuel, Re-Energize, and Beam Up Motivation, Resiliency, and Heal our Collective Trauma from the COVID-19 pandemic! Our lives have been altered, our work has had to adapt; we feel less connected, isolated, and lost in space…but now is the time to recognize the signs of burnout and begin motivating you and your peers to re-fuel and re-energize for the future. This training will examine the root of collective trauma, examine burnout and fatigue. An introduction to emotional first aid and tips on resilience will highlight the ability of self-reflection to improve helping professional’s ability to re-energize their passion and re-fuel their resiliency levels. Let’s boldly go where no other helping professionals have gone before!

Learning Objectives:
1. Gain an understanding of collective trauma via connection of societal effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
2. Explore professional burnout to develop strategies to professionally heal and recognize burnout.
3. Improve professional self-reflection to enhance professional resilience in the helping professions.
4. Learn strategies of emotional first aid to improve resilience, reduce burnout, and motivate in the helping professions.

Upon completion of this course attendees will earn 2.5 Category I Contact Hours.

PLEASE NOTE:

• Arrival time is 8:50am; Training is 9:00am - 11:30am EST
• This is a live virtual training. A link will be sent to registrants the day prior to the training.

Thank you to everyone who attended and participated in the 2022 Annual Conference on June 1-3, 2022 in Baton Rouge, LA.


We had a wonderful turnout for our first in-person event in two years! So many of you expressed that you had a joyful time not only attending live interactive professional education, but also reconnecting in person with classmates and colleagues from across the state.

During the entire month of March, it is the opportunity to place the spotlight on social workers across the country and highlight the numerous contributions we make to society. It also provides a time to promote, and advocate for social workers through activities, events, and other outreach and awareness efforts.

In 1984 the White House began officially recognizing Social Workers in March as Social Work Month.   Since then the National Association of Social Workers has selected a social issue to promote each year, spanning topics such as the health care crisis, to hate crimes, to children in poverty, to homelessness and more.

Each year has a different theme and the 2022 theme is,  The Time is Right for Social Work.  According to National, this theme underscores the contributions social workers have made to this nation for more than a century and how the services they provide are needed more than ever as our nation addresses economic inequality, systemic racism, the need for improved health and mental health care, Covid-19 and other issues.

As social workers, daily you find yourselves in various demanding, often emotional situations.  From   discrimination, poverty, trauma, protecting children and adults with support needs from harm,  helping keep families under pressure together to supporting someone with mental health challenges.  What you do can be very difficult, especially when you give so much of yourself, despite the long hours and the emotional impact of the job and everything you have assigned to you. Yet, you do it without thinking, you always complete the assignments. It’s part of who you are – thank you for UNDERSTANDING your assignment.

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