This training will deliver strategies aimed at improving individual, clinical team, and organizational wellbeing. Participants will be introduced to the topic of professional safety as it pertains to service delivery work, and review the latest research on how professional safety strategies can be used in moments of professional adversity and severe stress to preserve and protect their wellbeing over the long-term journey of professional development and wellness.

This training will describe the risk factors for burnout, vicarious trauma, and secondary trauma in the professional workplace as well as personal, and finally, team-based and organizational resilience factors and strategies. Participants will learn how to critique social and cultural messaging regarding health and wellness from a diversity, equity, and inclusion lens. Participants will engage in learning to use best practices of adult learner models, where application and didactics are the information delivery system.

Through this training, participants will create an individualized and unique plan of care for their wellbeing, and come away from the training with professional hope, motivation, calm, inspiration, and increased performance and productivity. This training is intended for field-based mental health and outreach workers in Los Angeles County.