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The Department of Human Services, Division of Mental Health and Disability Services is offering the following training on June 21 & 22.

To register please email Karen Hyatt at khyatt@dhs.state.ia.us or fax to 515-242-6036.  Name, email, date and name of training.  The training is free to all participants due to a grant that DHS has received.

June 21: Compassion Fatigue
Dubuque at the Grand Harbor Convention Center
9:00 to 1:00, lunch included
3.0 CEU
Course Description
Compassion fatigue has been defined as "A combination of secondary traumatic stress (vicarious trauma) and burnout both of which negatively impact on care giving skills (Figley, Baranowsky) or a "Chronic lack of self care" (Figley) or "a Responder's diminished ability to provide emotional support for disaster survivors.  This lack of empathy, care and concern may come from overexposure to the suffering of survivors compounded by the emotionally draining effects of prolonged disaster duty".  Compassion fatigue is not the same as burnout or counter transference
This training will address:

    * Common misconceptions in the helper role
    * Who is vulnerable for compassion fatigue
    * Symptoms of compassion fatigue
    * The costs of compassion fatigue
    * Potential consequences of compassion fatigue
    * Strategies for managing and healing compassion fatigue
    * Compassion satisfaction

June 21:  Community Resiliency
Dubuque at the Grand Harbor Convention Center
1:30 to 5:00
3.0 CEU
Course Description
Resilience is the capacity to cope, adapt and return to effectiveness in spite of stress or trauma.  After a disaster, the resilience of a community depends partly on the resilience of its parts - organizations and individuals. Participants in this training will learn the factors that promote resilience, and through case examples and a series of "Resilience Scorecards," will assess themselves, their organizations and their communities, then discuss ways to support and improve them after a disaster. For the leader or disaster planner, this may involve building "natural support networks," and improving collaboration between organizations. For the worker or volunteer, it may require new patterns of peer support and self care.  For the community as a whole, participants will see how physical, economic, political, social and cultural factors affect behavioral health and recovery.

June 22:  Psychological First Aid
Dubuque at the Grand Harbor Convention Center
9:00 to 4:00, lunch included
6.0 CEU
Course Description
Psychological First Aid (PFA) is an emerging intervention that can be used during the immediate response phase of any critical incident or disaster. The primary objectives of PFA are to promote safety, create calm, connect to others, self-efficacy and instill hope.  By completing this training, participants will be able to: recognize opportunities to use PFA, demonstrate active listening skills, normalize psychological reactions as appropriate, teach stress management techniques, recognize adaptive coping versus maladaptive coping, identify sources of interpersonal support and use crisis communication techniques with individual disaster survivors and disaster workers.