Something I’ve been pondering lately is how foster care advocacy work can intersect with both primary trauma and secondary traumatic stress.
We had a training at the library recently, and the trainer said:
- We need to normalize compassion fatigue and secondary traumatic stress as part of our work.
- It would be inhuman if we learned about and experienced such painful things and had no emotions about it or didn’t care.
The next step is figuring out what to do, to care for ourselves when that happens. Not IF. But WHEN.
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