This resource guide helps professionals recognize and cope with secondhand trauma by outlining common signs, impacts on work, practical self-care and organizational strategies to prevent burnout and sustain well-being.
Core Knowledge Area: Professional Practice
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Pause, Reset, Nourish to Promote Wellbeing
The National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) provides a factsheet on the self-care strategy called Pause, Reset, Nourish that promotes professional wellbeing, concrete self-care actions, and resources for mental health and professional wellbeing. This factsheet is available in both English and Spanish
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Introduction to Trauma-Informed Care with Newcomers
Switchboard provides a introductory webinar on trauma-informed care that reviews compassion fatigue, self-care techniques for direct service professionals, and the strategies for maintaining healthy professional boundaries.
Resource: Introduction to Trauma-Informed Care with Newcomers
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Introduction to Secondary Traumatic Stress
The National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NTCSN) provides an introduction to secondary traumatic stress. This online guide addresses who is at risk, prevention and intervention strategies, and strategies to build individual and organizational resiliency.
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Practicing Personal Safety While Partnering with Families
This module covers visit prep, personal safety and handling unique safety situations, avoiding risks, self-care techniques, and program responsibilities.
Resource: Practicing Personal Safety While Partnering with Families
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Avoiding Escalation & Increasing Personal Safety on Home Visits
Explore personal and professional safety during home visits and learn daily de-escalation strategies in this reflective webinar. A link to the recorded webinar will be sent to you after completing the registration form.
Resource: Avoiding Escalation & Increasing Personal Safety on Home Visits
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Reflective Supervision Part 2
This module introduces supervisors to reflective supervision, covering its roots in infant mental health, key principles, benefits, and components to support effective practice.
Resource: Reflective Supervision Part 2
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Reflective Supervision Part 1
This session introduces reflective supervision concepts, emphasizing communication, self-reflection, bias awareness, and collaboration strategies to enhance relationships and outcomes.
Resource: Reflective Supervision Part 1
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ACEs Prevention Home Visiting Companion Guide
Start with this guide that explains the pieces of the Preventing ACEs (PACEs) in Home Visiting Toolkit. This provides guidance on using the PACE Home Visiting Tool, ChEW, as well as other toolkit resources. The Companion Guide includes an overview, sample discussion starters, and references to resources that can be utilized.
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Section E: Additional ACE Factors-Discrimination: Modules on Historical Trauma and Racial Equity Training
Training modules for home visitors from the Institute for the Advancement of Family Support Professionals on historical trauma; racism and equity.
Resource: https://institutefsp.org/