Ambassador of Hope Webinar Series: What to Do When Your Empathy is Strained

Name: Ambassador of Hope Webinar Series: What to Do When Your Empathy is Strained
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June 2022

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Ambassador of Hope Webinar Series: What to Do When Your Empathy is Strained

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Whether you are an Ambassador or not, you have worked hard to educate yourself, you’ve learned hard truths about the violence and perversion of child sex trafficking, and you help educate others. You’ve had to answer the hard questions, and you may even be involved at the grassroots of a victim’s journey to freedom. What happens when you find your compassion is eroded? What if your worldview shifts and you can’t see the good in humanity anymore? What if you feel like “What’s the use? Am I making a difference anyway?” This workshop gives you checklist of symptoms for compassion fatigue, secondary trauma and ways to identify your personal vulnerability. You will receive solutions for resiliency and positive ways to be able to continue in the fight sex trafficking. To request a copy of the transcript, please contact training@sharedhope.org.

Description

Whether you are an Ambassador or not, you have worked hard to educate yourself, you’ve learned hard truths about the violence and perversion of child sex trafficking, and you help educate others. You’ve had to answer the hard questions, and you may even be involved at the grassroots of a victim's journey to freedom. What happens when you find your compassion is eroded? What if your worldview shifts and you can't see the good in humanity anymore? What if you feel like "What's the use? Am I making a difference anyway?" This workshop gives you checklist of symptoms for compassion fatigue, secondary trauma and ways to identify your personal vulnerability. You will receive solutions for resiliency and positive ways to be able to continue in the fight sex trafficking. To request a copy of the transcript, please contact training@sharedhope.org.

Speakers

Melissa Kaiser is an independent consultant in the anti-human trafficking field; and was the first Human Trafficking Navigator hired for Eastern North Dakota, and contracted with the North Dakota Human Trafficking Task Force. Melissa was employed with the Bureau of Criminal Investigations as their first Victim/Witness Specialist, and assisted in creating the integrated victim services and law enforcement program in ND. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in social work from Minnesota State University Moorhead. She is a skilled facilitator working with groups within foster care systems, psychiatry and addiction patients, and human trafficking multi-disciplinary teams. She has experience in team supervision, protocol development, crisis management, public speaking, training development, prevention/education, advocacy, and case management.