From pandemics to other public health emergencies and disasters—as well as in routine contexts—public health practitioners are very much on the front lines of the helping professions. In their varied critical roles, public health providers are potentially subject not only to physical fatigue, but also to psychological fatigue. This latter category of fatigue can entail emotionally relevant stress among public health workers, borne of their highly laudable compassion in serving their communities; this particular type of fatigue is known as ‘compassion fatigue.’

This interactive, self-guided module will define ‘compassion fatigue’ and its relevance to public health workers and will characterize how compassion fatigue can manifest and be managed in public health providers.

**Instructions to access the self-guided module will be provided after you register.**

Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this self-guided module, participants will be able to:

• describe why compassion fatigue is an occupationally-relevant psychosocial challenge for public health and health care professionals;
• list three (3) risk factors for compassion fatigue
• explain how compassion fatigue manifests; and
• describe intervention and coping strategies to mitigate compassion fatigue.

Target Audience
This interactive, self-guided module is relevant to public health practitioners working in community settings and clinical practitioners such as social workers and nurses.

Instructor
Daniel Barnett, MD, MPH is a professor in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH), where he has joint appointments in the Department of Health Policy and Management and the Department of Health, Behavior, and Society. He directs JHSPH’s Public Health Preparedness Certificate Program. Barnett’s research interests include evidence-based approaches to identifying and addressing gaps in public health emergency and disaster prevention/mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery systems. He has extensive experience in training public health and health care system-based practitioners in a broad array of emergency management topics including NIMS/ICS; developing and evaluating disaster preparedness exercises; crisis risk communication; and systematic methodologies for large-scale emergency planning and response efforts, including psychosocial aspects. He received his MD from The Ohio State University College of Medicine and Public Health and his MPH from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Barnett is also a graduate of the Johns Hopkins General Preventive Medicine Residency Program.

Level
This self-guided module is appropriate for those with no or basic levels of experience with compassion fatigue.

Length: 30–45 minutes

Continuing Education Credit
Continuing Education credits for certified public health professionals (CPH-CE, 1 hour) are available.

Technology Requirements
A computer with high-speed internet connection is required to view this self-guided module.

For more information about this self-guided module or for assistance with registration, contact marphtc@pitt.edu.

Incidents of mass violence often occur without warning and can happen anywhere, impacting entire communities and our country at large. Join us in this recorded webinar as we examine the prevalence of mass violence in the U.S. Subsequently, we will explore the Fatal Grievance Pathway Model to align with the latest research that suggests most active killers are motivated by a fatal grievance and progress along an identifiable pathway to violence. Finally, we will discuss prevention strategies as next steps for public health practitioners.

**Instructions to access the video will be provided after you register.**

Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this recorded webinar, participants will be able to:
describe the scope of mass violence in the U.S.;
describe important identification and intervention variables to prevent mass violence; and
identify public health levels of prevention and their components.

Target Audience
This presentation is appropriate for all public health and clinical practitioners.

Instructor
Jeff Daniels, PhD is a professor of counseling at West Virginia University who has been engaged in research pertaining to violence and violence prevention for over 23 years. Specifically, he has studied averted school shootings and school captive-takings. Daniels has also been carrying out collaborative research with the FBI for over 16 years using Perpetrator-Motive Research Design. He has conducted research on hostage-takers’ motives and procedures and a large study of police officer ambushes. Daniels’ research is published in peer-revised journals and presented at national and international conferences. His most recent book, Fatal Grievances: Forecasting and Preventing Active Killer Threats in School, Campus, and Workplace Settings (2022), forms the basis of this webinar. Dr. Daniels earned a doctorate in counseling psychology at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln. He has held academic appointments at Central Washington University and at Indiana University.

Level
This course is appropriate for those with no or basic levels of experience with violence prevention.

Length: 50 minutes

Continuing Education Credits
Continuing education credits are not offered for this course.

Technology Requirements
This recorded webinar is presented through the Vimeo Internet-based platform. A computer with high-speed internet connection and the ability to download and run this platform is required.

For more information about this course or for assistance with registration, contact marphtc@pitt.edu.

Creation Date
This training was created April 12, 2023.

To be “trauma‐informed” involves a number of scientifically grounded elements that focus on safety, emotional intelligence, connection, communication, resilience, and healing. We now know that many of the individual problems and social challenges that exist for trauma survivors were originally developed as attempts to cope with overwhelming experiences of relentless stress, toxic stress, and traumatic stress. Research has demonstrated that a majority of people in the United States will experience a traumatic event at some time in their lifetime. In urban areas, the rate of exposure is even higher.
**Instructions to access the recordings will be provided after you register.**
The project
On May 31, 2016, Dr. Sandy Bloom hosted a live webcast to highlight the context of Philadelphia as a model for trauma-informed work, the rationale for the Trauma-Informed City project, and how the project can be used to inform change.
The interviews
For over a decade, Philadelphia has been at the forefront of understanding trauma and its connection to health, education, and social and emotional well-being. As the fifth largest city in the country, Philadelphia has taken a public health approach to trauma and toxic stress that has drawn national recognition. As a way of bringing some of that knowledge and history - and future - to a broader audience, the Dornsife School of Public Health, through the HRSA-funded Mid-Atlantic Regional Public Health Training Center, interviewed 29 champions - experts in public health, behavioral health medicine, education, childcare, and criminal justice - to learn more about the work Philadelphia has done to become trauma informed and the challenges that lie ahead.
Each expert was asked a series of questions to understand their experience with trauma within their system, the progress that's been made, and where systems and individuals need to go from here.
Interviewees

• Sandra Bloom, MD; Professor of Health Management & Policy, Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health
• Susan Brotherton, MSW; Director of Philadelphia Social Service Ministries, The Salvation Army
• Frank Cervone, JD; Executive Director, Support Center for Child Advocates
• Mariana Chilton, PhD, MPH; Director, Center for Hunger Free Communities; Professor, Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health
• Theodore Corbin, MD, MPP; Associate Professor, Drexel University College of Medicine
• Charles Ehrlich, JD; Judge, Common Pleas Court Philadelphia
• Arthur Evans, PhD; Commissioner, Department of Behavioral Health & disAbility Service, City of Philadelphia
• John Fein, MD; Professor of Pediatrics & Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania; Director of Advocacy & Health Policy, Division of Emergency Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
• Jeanne Felter, PhD, LPC; Community & Trauma Counseling Director, Philadelphia University
• Joseph Foderaro, LCSW, BCD; Clinical Social Worker, Healing Hurt People, Drexel University College of Medicine
• Patricia Gerrity, PhD; Associate Dean for Community Programs, Drexel University College of Nursing & Health Professions
• Kenneth Ginsburg, MD, MSEd; Professor of Pediatrics, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia & Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
• Kalma Kartel White, MEd, CPRP; Behavioral Training Specialist
• Cara King, MPH(c); Master of Public Health student, Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health
• Leslie Lieberman, MSW; Director of Special Initiatives, Health Federation of Philadelphia
• Altovise Love-Craighead, MS; Captain, Philadelphia Police Department, 16^th District
• Ana Nunez, MD; Professor of Medicine, Drexel University College of Medicine
• Daniel O’Brien; Deputy Director of Implementation, Mayor’s Office of Grants, City of Philadelphia
• Michael O’Bryan; Youth Programs Manager, The Village of Arts & Humanities
• Suzanne O’Connor; Program Manager, United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania
• Joseph Pyle, MA; President, Scattergood Foundation
• Robert Reed, JD, MS; Executive Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice
• John A. Rich, MD, MPH: Professor of Health Management & Policy, Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health
• Ruthann Ryan, APRN, BC, CNP; Faculty, Sanctuary Institute
• Sandra Sheller, MA, ATR-BC, LPC; President, Sheller Family Foundation
• Carol Tracy, JD; Executive Director, Women’s Law Project
• Antonio Valdes; CEO, Children’s Crisis Treatment Center
• Nicole Vaughn, PhD, MA; Assistant Professor, Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health
• Crystal Wyatt; Community Research Coordinator, Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health

For more information about this course, contact cphp@drexel.edu. For assistance with registration, contact marphtc@pitt.edu.