Health Enabling for Listening Professionals (HELP)
Anyone who works with people in trauma can experience
Vicarious Trauma or Compassion Fatigue.
Serving over 8,000 victims a year, the staff at
The Denver Center For Crime Victims knows firsthand the detrimental
effects Vicarious
Trauma can have on the individual and the organization as a whole.
In 2001 DCCV took a proactive stance against Vicarious Trauma
by implementing self care planning with its staff and volunteers.
Out of this philosophy HELP was born. This development and coaching
workshop promotes employee self-care. DCCV began offering HELP
workshops to other helping professionals as a result of our success
within our own agency.
Our powerful full-day workshop provides professional
service providers such as first responders, EMS, social workers,
victim’s service
providers, attorney’s, family therapists, interpreters, nurses
and all helping professions with education about Vicarious Trauma
and proven tools to reduce its effects.
What is Vicarious Trauma and how is it different from Burnout?
Briefly, Burnout is the standard vernacular workers use to describe
what is a gradual emergence of physical, emotional and mental
exhaustion, typically caused by long term, repetitive tasks or
involvement in physically or emotionally demanding situations.
Burnout manifests as lack of enthusiasm, boredom, declining performance,
depersonalization, pessimisms and cynicism (Pines and Aronson 1988,
Aguilera, 1995).
It may or may not be trauma related.
Vicarious Trauma is essentially the result of that empathic engagement
with a survivor’s trauma and that which changes us (Pearlman & Saakvitne,
1995). It may have negative physical, emotional, cognitive consequences
(Figley, Danieli, 1996, McCann & Pearlman, 1990) manifesting
in clusters of symptoms that emulate the primary trauma victim;
intrusive imagery, heightened distrust and vulnerability, feelings
of lack of control and lack of genuine connection or intimacy with
others.
According to Janoff-Bulman, we all have our beliefs and assumptions
about how the world operates. Our beliefs and assumptions about
the world become compromised when exposed to traumatic events or
traumatic material. They offer, we question our worthiness; the
benevolence of the world; and the meaningfulness of the world.
Our worldview is altered.
Is your staff suffering from vicarious trauma?
Let us bring a HELP workshop to you.
Participants will:
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Learn about Vicarious Trauma and how to counteract its effects
on the body and the mind.
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Understand responses to trauma.
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Examine and respond to personal history.
• Experience tools and techniques to reduce vicarious trauma.
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Understand the benefits of a self care plan.
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Create a personalized self care plan.
Presenters:
Kathi Fanning M.S., LPC
Director of Training and Volunteer Services for The Denver Center
for Crime Victims in Denver, Colorado since 1990. Kathi earned
her Master of Science in Counseling from the University of Oregon.
Cathy Phelps, M.A., LCSW
Executive Director for The Denver Center for Crime Victims. Cathy
earned her Master of Arts in Medical Anthropology from the University
of Colorado at Denver and additionally, graduated with her Master’s
Degree in Social work from the University of Denver.
Janice Rhyne
Director of the Translation & Interpreting Center. Janice is
pursuing her Masters in
Non-Profit Management at Regis University.
She has training in Clinical Aromatherapy from Dr. Raphael D’Angelo,
founder of the Center for Holistic and Integrative Medicine.
Amy Ulrich, MNM
Director of Administration at the Denver
Center for Crime Victims. Amy holds a Master’s Degree
in Nonprofit Management from Regis University. As a member of DCCV’s
Leadership Team she oversees all administrative and development operations of the agency.
Our clients include:
Denver 911 Call Center
Denver Health- Interpreting Department
The Translation and Interpreting Center independent contractors
The Children’s Hospital – Interpreting Department
Colorado Association of Professional Interpreters Members (CAPI)
Colorado Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf Members (CRID)
Conference presentations:
49th annual American Translators Association conference
Denver Human Service Network
Colorado Organization for Victim Assistance- COVA
Colorado Coalition Against Domestic Violence in Denver- CCADV
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