Trauma-informed, Resiliency-oriented and Equitable Care & Workforce

TP23 - Trauma-informed Approaches to Addressing Workforce Shortages

Tuesday, April 12, 2022

1:30 PM – 2:00 PM

Location: Gaylord National, Prince George's Prefunction

Poster Presenter(s)

Dillon A. Browne, LMSW

Coordinator, Peer and Recovery Services
The Mental Health Association of Westchester
Scarsdale, New York
Marianne LaCalamito, LMSW

Senior Clinician, Crisis Stabilization
The Mental Health Association of Westchester
Tarrytown, New York

The workforce shortages nationwide have had a profound impact on the behavioral health field. To effectively address the shortage, we must identify its root causes and understand the dynamics that result in staff resignation and improve our culture and practices around employee wellness. You’ll get actionable steps toward creating a set of strategies designed to increase staff retention, provide a set of solutions to engage in worker wellness and address impact of the work on staff morale and staff retention.

Learning Objectives:

Organizational strategies that lead to staff satisfaction.
Describe the impact of vicarious trauma and effective ways to mitigate that impact.
Measures used to analyze the effectiveness of staff wellness initiatives.