Balancing the Stress and Strength of Burnout
Your Course Description
Mental Health Basics
- Burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious trauma are protective, not defective responses to stress.
- While you cannot control the onset of stressful events you will inevitably experience as a youth worker, you can learn to leverage stress to strengthen mental health and prevent burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious trauma.
- In this highly experiential 2-hour training, we will explore the science behind why we burn out and how to strategically manage the stress that feeds burnout and metabolize it into fuel that brings about mental health, emotional balance, and sustainable care.
Your Learning Objectives
- Learn what mental health is and the five core competencies that support it
- Learn about the anatomy of stress (the 4 E’s) and how it impacts your body, mind, and relationships
- Know how to spot the differences between burnout, compassion fatigue, and secondary traumatic stress by their causes and clues
- Learn how your nervous system responds to stress and how simple mind-body practices can help you reset and build resilience
- Experience healing-centered, trauma-responsive practices such as the HEAL method to strengthen your boundaries and protect your mental health
Your Course Details
- Interactive
- Completion Certificate
- Youth Worker Track
- This training will count as 2 CE hours for most boards. Please contact your board directly with questions on submitting. Course details for CE submissions provided.
Your Trainer

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Your Skill-Building Objectives
Mental Health Awareness
Recognizing and responding to mental health concerns
Resilience Building
Teaching coping strategies to overcome barriers
Self-Care
Prioritizing well-being to give your best