This training is for (but not limited to):

Health Care Providers – nurses, social workers, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, massage therapists, pharmacists, physicians, palliative care workers.

Mental Health Clinicians – psychologists, clinical social workers, marriage and family therapists, educational counsellors, psychiatric nurses, addiction counsellors, crisis counsellors, intake workers.

Teachers/Educators – teachers, teacher aids, school counsellors, principals, leadership.

Community Support Workers – child protection workers, case managers, home care support workers, community social workers.

This program is for helping professionals who want to reduce or prevent compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma.  

If you're ready to learn a new framework for approaching your work and are willing to try new strategies to protect yourself, this program is for you.

Please note this is an educational program and not therapy.  Anyone concerned about symptoms of mental illness should seek professional support.

The Individual Program takes approximately 18 hours to complete.  You have six months to complete the modules with six weeks of weekly live support, followed by monthly live sessions.

The Professional Training Program (modules 1-12) takes approximately 40 hours to complete. You have 12 months to complete the modules with six weeks of weekly live support, followed by monthly live sessions.

The Private Practice Bliss™ online training that is included with the Deluxe Professional Training Program includes over 6 hours of video training and takes approximately 18 hours to complete.

In order to access the content each week, you will need to log into a program with a username and password that you will create when you register.  If you have logged in and watched my free video training, then you have everything you need to access the course material.

There are video and audio files that you can watch/listen to. There are worksheets in Adobe Format that you can download. Adobe has a free program you can download to open the documents and there is a link to it inside the course platform.

You should have a basic understanding of logging into programs with a user name and password for this program.

Technically, these can be done on a desktop, laptop, tablet and smartphone. Keep in mind there are worksheets to print in each module and this is not always available from tablet/phones.

You can download the slides, handouts and audio practice to keep indefinitely, however, the video trainings are formatted and not downloadable.  You have access to them through the library for the duration of your program.

You will have the option to complete a quiz at the end of the program.

It is up to you to see if your regulatory college will accept this training.

Trainings offered through Caring Safely® have been previously accepted for continuing education hours through various organizations, including: NASW (Missouri Chapter), the Alberta College of Social Workers (Category A), The BC Nurses Union. 

Here is information that you can provide your regulatory body for this training (you can copy and past it if you’d like):

In order for someone to receive a certificate of completion for this training through Caring Safely, they must complete a pre and post test, a program evaluation and a final quiz that contains no more than 10% true and false questions with a passing grade of 80% or higher. The trainer that has a Master of Social Work degree and is provided by an organization that has a privacy officer. The trainer’s credentials include a bachelor of social work, a masters of social work, a clinical registration to provide psychosocial restricted activities and over 10 years of direct clinical practice. The trainer is registered with the Alberta College of Social Workers (ACSW) (Registration #11958) and the Canadian Association of Social Workers (CASW).  Caring Safely training has previous been accepted by both the Alberta College of Social Workers and the Canadian Association of Social Workers and is a certified education institute in Canada.

No. The Caring Safely program has been designed so each person will work through the Individual Program in order to understand and integrate the framework and strategies themselves before deepening their understanding of the subject matter through the Professional Training. 

The purpose of the professional training program is to specialize in the concepts of compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma and burnout and to learn how to create your own educational training materials. You will then decide what area you want to specialize in and create training materials to use in your workshops.  You will not be teaching the Caring Safely® content/curriculum.  

Each year there are a limited number of spots in the Professional Program so we suggest that you register for it if you know you want to take it. 

If there are remaining spots after registration closes, we will open registration for the Professional Program again shortly before it begins in January 2020 for those who have completed the Individual Program.   

Signing up for continuing education is an investment of time and money. We do not offer refunds, so please take the time you need to decide if this training program is for you.