For All 1st Responders!

Caring Doesn't have To Cost This Much
Mitigating Compassion Fatigue, PTSD & Vicarious Trauma
 

Thursday August 17th, 2017
9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
$200 + HST per person - Includes coffee, tea, a light lunch and handout materials.

NEW - Bring a person that supports you or that you support for only $60.
Any two people where there is emotional support - peers, spouses, therapist/social worker, chaplain. Two people $260 + HST.

Hidden Valley Resort
1755 Valley Rd, Huntsville, ON P1H 1Z8 

regehr@cast-canada.ca       705-749-6145

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Not unlike the “Walking Dead” many First Responders are fearful of being bitten by the dreaded Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Additionally, if you have suffered from previous trauma, lived or worked in ambient chaos, have anger against your organization, are not intentionally preparing yourself for difficult calls and ongoing stress, you will be more vulnerable.

This workshop invites First Responders to personally become
more “TYPE A” about self-care.

Give yourself permission to reframe your perspective from “suck it up buttercup” to “I can work through this” by deliberately initiating strategic choices and coping skills.

Participants will:

• Discuss the “occupational hazards” of working as a First Responder;
• Differentiate between the key concepts of compassion fatigue, primary trauma (i.e. developmental, relational or shock trauma), acute stress disorder, vicarious trauma and PTSD
• Understand the psychobiology of ‘Unconscious Empathy’ and its influence on first responders
• Learn and discuss tools that can be used to mitigate compassion fatigue, PTSD and other trauma related factors
• Learn/review strategies for “working it through.”

Whos is this for?
Paramedics - Firefighters - Police

Public Safety Officers - Corrections Personnel - Border Services Officers

Dispatchers & Emergency Response Managers

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About the Presenter:

Tom Walker, MSW, RSW, Ornge

Tom works with Ornge where his provides therapeutic interventions for paramedics and staff and has recently developed and implemented a Peer Support Program. He is a trainer and consultant with the CAST, Crisis Trauma Response Institute (CTRI) and the Traumatology Institute where he is a trained Clinical Traumatologist & Certified Compassion Fatigue Specialist. 

  Tom has a private practice where he also works with trauma, addictions and mental health counselling for adolescents, adults and families. He periodically works as a professor at George Brown, Seneca and Humber College and has worked as the Director of Business Development and Training with CTI where he “trained people helping people” and took leadership roles with the Youth Worker Training Initiative and the Breaking the Cycle program (Youth Gang Exit Strategy). Tom has 28 years of experience working in social services.

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Questions?

regehr@cast-canada.ca     becca@cast-canada.ca     705-749-6145