Meeting Time: Usually the fourth Monday of the month at 10:30 a.m. Contact Wendy to confirm the date and time of the next meeting
Meeting Location: Community Room, HealthFirst Family Care Center, 337 Quarry Street, Fall River
Register for Trainings:
MUST RSVP – SPACE IS LIMITED!
This month’s very important training will focus on Compassion Fatigue presented by Derek Foulds, a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, as well as an Assistant Clinical Director and Program Director at Family Service Association.
Objectives for the training include:
– define stress, compassion fatigue, secondary traumatic stress and burnout
– complete a compassion fatigue self-test
– discuss the phases of compassion fatigue
– discuss how the nervous system response to stress
– discuss strategies to develop effective self-care
– discuss what supervisors can do to help staff members improve their effectiveness and decrease burnout
– discuss how to practice mindfulness
– discuss magazine article re: myths about self-compassion. What keeps us from being kinder to ourselves?
Meeting Time: Every first Tuesday of the month at 8:30 a.m. in the Community Room of the HealthFirst Family Care Center, 387 Quarry Street, Fall River.
The Greater Fall River Coalition for Health and Well Being is an ad hoc group formed in response to the challenges posed by homeless families living in local motels while they await placement in permanent housing. Members of the group meet to continue their ongoing discussion of strategies to assist the families. The group is working on providing resources and assistance with accessing medical care, finding donations of clothing and personal care items, transportation, and options for recreation for the children who are living in very restrictive environments. Anyone with an interest in problem-solving for this at-risk population is welcome to attend the meetings.
Coordinator: Wendy Garf-Lipp (508-324-7900, Ext. 103)
Meeting Time: Usually the third Wednesday of the month at 8:30 a.m. Contact Wendy to confirm the date and time of the next meeting
Meeting Location: Community Room, HealthFirst Family Care Center, 337 Quarry Street, Fall River
Register for Trainings:
Meeting Time: Usually the fourth Monday of the month at 10:30 a.m. Contact Wendy to confirm the date and time of the next meeting
Meeting Location: Community Room, HealthFirst Family Care Center, 337 Quarry Street, Fall River
Meeting Time: Every first Tuesday of the month at 8:30 a.m. in the Community Room of the HealthFirst Family Care Center, 387 Quarry Street, Fall River.
The Greater Fall River Coalition for Health and Well Being is an ad hoc group formed in response to the challenges posed by homeless families living in local motels while they await placement in permanent housing. Members of the group meet to continue their ongoing discussion of strategies to assist the families. The group is working on providing resources and assistance with accessing medical care, finding donations of clothing and personal care items, transportation, and options for recreation for the children who are living in very restrictive environments. Anyone with an interest in problem-solving for this at-risk population is welcome to attend the meetings.
Coordinator: Wendy Garf-Lipp (508-324-7900, Ext. 103)
Meeting Time: Usually the third Wednesday of the month at 8:30 a.m. Contact Wendy to confirm the date and time of the next meeting
Meeting Location: Community Room, HealthFirst Family Care Center, 337 Quarry Street, Fall River
Meeting Time: Third Wednesday of each month at 3:00 p.m.