Workplace Trends, Resources, and Strategies: Disaster Cascade and Long-Term Recovery Management

Speaker:  

Kira Mauseth, Ph.D., Co-Lead Behavioral Health Strike Team, Washington State Department of Health

Description: 

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected our personal and professional lives in many ways that we may not recognize. In the context of a disaster cascade, finding the mental, emotional, and other resources necessary to feel resilient is more challenging than ever before. Working through emotional, cognitive and interpersonal difficulties is important at home and at work. Leaders and team members alike have unique opportunities to help others navigate their experiences while also taking care of themselves. 

Learning Objectives:

• Strategies for reducing burnout, compassion fatigue, and moral injury, and improving healthy boundaries and communication skills in the face of hardened opinions and strong feelings. 
• Healthy and effective communication techniques that support recovery from a large-scale disaster
• Active coping and other resilience-building strategies

• This is a chance to broaden insights and gain a better understanding of the collective impacts the COVID-19 Pandemic has had on our mental health.
• This is a way to learn to about a variety of resilience strategies designed to help individuals persevere forward.
• This is a chance for Supervisors to gain a better understanding of how they can better support their workgroups.

Who Should Attend:

• Anyone who has lived through the pandemic and has struggled with the collective impacts. 

Thank you for joining us!

Registration:

• WRPA Members: $15
• Non-Members: $25