Programming Director Lexipol Greenwood Village, Colorado
Description: In a post-pandemic world, corrections and detentions personnel face unprecedented challenges and demands. Critical staffing shortages and decreased budgets have placed strains on personnel, often requiring long hours, little downtime, and exhaustion. Research indicates that employee burnout and compassion fatigue can directly contribute to low morale, increased turnover, and low job satisfaction. Many organizations attempt to offer employee resources, which often don’t meet the needs of their staff and go unutilized. This course outlines strategies for organizational leadership to battle burnout and compassion fatigue by offering proactive, preventative, and culturally competent strategies to bolster agency and employee resilience.
Learning Objectives:
Identify the impacts burnout and compassion fatigue can have on organizational members and staff.
Recognize signs and symptoms of burnout and compassion fatigue in co-workers, leadership, and other personnel.
Conduct a gap analysis of current staff wellness resource offerings to determine whether they are culturally competent, being utilized, and where other strategies can be implemented to bolster resilience.
Explore how poorly trained or under-staffed peer support teams can struggle to assist in battling burnout.
Discover proactive strategies that can be offered to help increase employee mental health, decrease stress responses, and turn compassion fatigue into compassion satisfaction.
