Webinar: Burn Bright, Not Out: Interactive Strategies for Overcoming Compassion Fatigue While Staying Strong
Individuals in the helping professions — like home visiting staff — enter their fields with the desire to provide empathic support for their clients/patients. However, because of overexposure to the traumatic experiences or difficult stories of the people they serve, caregivers may experience compassion fatigue. This can harm our well-being and make us less effective at our jobs. But there are things we can do to guard against and to overcome compassion fatigue.
On December 10, 2024, LA Best Babies Network (LABBN) hosted a webinar on compassion fatigue. In this webinar, which we hosted for Welcome Baby Outreach Specialists and other staff of our network’s home visiting organizations and Welcome Baby hospitals, LABBN’s Training Coordinators Terrie-May Ruiz and Patrick-Flippin Weston:
- Define compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, and secondary trauma stress, and review the signs and symptoms of each
- Review the similarities and differences between compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, and burnout
- Discuss the importance of self-care
- Share tips and strategies to help prevent these stresses
Watch the webinar recording here, and don’t miss the links to related resources below:
Related Resources:
- Presentation slides for this webinar
- Webinar worksheets:
- Caregiver’s Bill of Rights (Compassion Fatigue Awareness Project ∙ CompassionFatigue.org)