Balancing the Stress and Strength of Burnout

Your Course Description

Mental Health Basics
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  • 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

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  • Icon Youth Worker Track
  • Icon 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

Reviewer Photo Dr. Jennifer Clifden has lived and witnessed the toll burnout takes on those who give tirelessly. She guides human-service professionals to shift from self-sacrifice to self-healing, transforming the pressures of their calling into personal strengths and using burnout as a pathway for growth. With a deep passion for preventing the harmful effects of compassion fatigue and helping retain those called to healing and helping professions, Jen works to safeguard the well-being of the workforce our youth and communities depend on. Drawing on 29 years as a K–8 teacher, university teacher educator, mental health researcher, yoga instructor, and mother of three, she designs and delivers on-demand trainings, transformative on-site professional development, energizing keynotes, and restorative community practice circles that draw on the science of thriving to rebuild connection, reinforce personal power, and foster self-healing. Jen shows caregivers how their capacity to care can become a source of healing, growth, and thriving, not depletion. Learn more at www.drjenclifden.com.
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Your Skill-Building Objectives

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Mental Health Awareness

Recognizing and responding to mental health concerns

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Resilience Building

Teaching coping strategies to overcome barriers

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Self-Care

Prioritizing well-being to give your best

What YIPA members are saying

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I feel I also learned more about myself. Thank you.

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Presentation was interesting and beneficial how to deal with stressors

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Providing handout was beneficial to review and follow along during the session.