Jewish Family Services, along with The Charles E. Kubly Foundation and Medical College of Wisconsin’s Violence Prevention Initiative, presents a conference on “compassion fatigue.”
The program will be held Thursday, April 16, 8 a.m.-noon at the Italian Conference Center, 631 E. Chicago St. in Milwaukee. Admission is $10, and continuing education credits are available for an additional fee.
Compassion fatigue can result when people in helping professions — health care, social work and psychology — become focused on assisting others that they neglect their own physical and mental health.
Keynote speaker Mary Jo Barrett, MSW, of the Center for Contextual Change in Chicago, will discuss how helping professionals and agency administrators can cope with and prevent compassion fatigue.
To reserve a seat, call 414-225-1372 or email RSVP@JFSMilw.org by Thursday, April 9. For more information, visit JFSMilw.org. This program is offered in memory of Hirsh J. Larkey, a JFS therapist and official who died in 2011.
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