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Apr
24
Tue
RSVP…Compassion Fatigue Training @ Diman Regional Vocational Technical High School | Room 251 Restaurant
Apr 24 @ 8:30 am – 10:00 am

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?

Please RSVP …space is limited!

 

Oct
25
Thu
Dr. David S. Weed Cook Pond Nature Trail Dedication @ Entrance to the Cook Pond nature trail at the west end of Amity Street (Adjacent to Henry Lord Community School)
Oct 25 @ 4:00 pm

Please join us as the nature trail around Cook Pond is officially named after Dr. David S. Weed who has done more in his many years of service to improve the health of the Fall River community that any of us will ever know.