Many people are reporting symptoms of burnout and compassion fatigue. Compassion fatigue, secondary trauma and vicarious trauma are words used to describe the reaction helping professionals may experience. Compassion fatigue is often defined as the cost of caring for others. Warning Signs Include: Reduced feeling of empathy Decrease engagement in work and life Poor work-life balance Reduced sense of career fulfillment Feelings of irritability and anger Problems in personal relationships...

CHILD USAdvocacy continues working closely with survivors, legislators, and advocates on the ground to pass a child sex abuse revival window for civil claims. The Pennsylvania House and the Senate have passed different versions of window legislation. The House has passed HB2 , which is a legislative window, and HB1 , which is a window via constitutional amendment. The Senate passed SB1 , which bundled the window with two other unrelated constitutional amendments. We support a stand alone...

PACEs Connection is excited to kick off our 2023 Creating Resilient Communities (CRC) Annual Accelerator Program.

We’re excited to announce the next offerings in our on-going Trauma Informed Lancaster County Community Education Series: a special four-part series of workshops on Trauma Informed Leadership. Several important notes about this series: * Each session will build on the previous session(s) and the full course consists of attending all four sessions. Please plan accordingly. * Seats are strictly limited and advance registration for all four sessions is required. When you register, please be...

Join us for this upcoming event in our "Next Steps: Walking the Talk of Trauma Informed Care" Lunch & Learn series with Debbie Gable, Vice President of Resident Services, HDC MidAtlantic on Tue Jan 31, 2023 , Noon - 1pm via Zoom Debbie Gable serves as Vice President of Resident Services at HDC MidAtlantic, leading a team that provides supports to residents that promote economic mobility, housing stability, and health and wellness. For over 35 years, Debbie has dedicated her career to...

Join us for this upcoming event in our "Next Steps: Walking the Talk of Trauma Informed Care" Lunch & Learn series with Angela Keen, Community Outreach & Volunteer Coordinator, Domestic Violence Services of Lanc Co on Tue Nov 29, 2022 , Noon - 1pm via Zoom Angela Keen provides training to staff and the community on topics related to domestic violence, including trauma, in her role at Domestic Violence Services (DVS). She leads the internal staff workgroup at DVS as they implement the...

Join us for this upcoming event in our "Next Steps: Walking the Talk of Trauma Informed Care" Lunch & Learn series with Greg Kessler, VP of Health Services, Training & Education, Water Street Health Services on Tue Oct 25, 2022, Noon - 1pm via Zoom Greg joined the Water Street leadership team as the Vice President of Health Services, Training & Education in September, 2015. He is a Licensed Professional Counselor as well as certified as a Clinical Supervisor and Advanced Alcohol...

Join us for the next in our "Next Steps: Walking the Talk of Trauma Informed Care" Lunch & Learn series with Adam Nagle, Executive Director of the Factory Ministries on Tue Sept 27, 2022, Noon - 1pm via Zoom Adam serves as the Executive Director of The Factory Ministries, a faith based social service hub in Easter Lancaster County focused on tackling poverty through an empowered relational approach. Adam has executive leadership experience in both the for-profit and non-profit sectors.

In this series of hour-long Lunch & Learn sessions, participants will learn directly from local organizational leaders in a variety of sectors: * how their organizations have gone about the work of becoming more trauma informed * resources, supports, tools, and processes they’ve found helpful * lessons they’ve learned in their trauma-informed journey, and * Ideas and advice they’d offer to other organizations in earlier stages of this process Presenters and Session Dates: (Last Tuesday...

At the Lancaster City Council meeting on Tuesday evening, May 10, Lancaster City Mayor Danene Sorace issued a proclamation recognizing the month of May as Mental Health and Trauma Awareness Month in the City. Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health and the City of Lancaster have been working in partnership for the past year to further the goal of making Lancaster a trauma informed city. This initiative includes training all staff in five city departments* about trauma, resilience and...

The month of May is “Mental Health and Trauma Awareness Month” and May 25th has designated as “Trauma Awareness Day”. On Wednesday, May 4, 2022, local leaders from Lancaster-Lebanon IU13, Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health, HDC MidAtlantic, Touchstone Foundation, Mental Health America of Lancaster County, and Lancaster County Behavioral Health ad Developmental Services offered perspectives on the importance of supporting mental well-being and resilience at the Lancaster County...

Here are the follow-up materials from our FREE spring Resilience Conference: Resiliently Grounded & Growing: Practices to Cultivate Well-Being. This conference was held entirely virtually, via Zoom, on April 20 and April 26, 2022. It was completely free of charge, thanks to our generous sponsors & funders: The Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health Behavioral Health Community Impact Fund and the High Foundation. Click the link below to view the full event program and line-up of...