Futures Without Violence hosted a webinar to give a brief overview of compassion fatigue or vicarious trauma and provide strategies to enhance health, healing, and stress reduction for individuals and organization wide. The following are the learning objectives for the webinar: Identify how individual, organizational and work-related factors contribute to an individual’s experience of secondary trauma and ability to heal from it; Discuss the reasons organizations benefit from supporting an...

Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS) is the “emotional duress that results when an individual hears about the firsthand trauma experiences of another person.” Those who work in child welfare organization are at very high risk of developing STS, which when left untreated, can negatively affect their ability to continue their extremely important work. This factsheet provides on how STS manifests itself in child welfare, the kinds of staff who are at risk for STS, and strategies for prevention and...

This factsheet provides valuable information on cybersafety to caregivers of teens. Topics include “sexting”, app safety, parental monitoring, identity protection, and cyber-bullying.

From the CDC’s Injury Prevention & Control, Division of Violence Prevention: "Safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments are essential to prevent child abuse and neglect and to assure all children reach their full potential. The Essentials for Childhood Framework proposes strategies communities can consider to promote relationships and environments that help children grow up to be healthy and productive citizens so that they, in turn, can build stronger and safer families and...