June 16, 2025 – 9 AM – 12 PM
PRE-CONFERENCE FEE: $75
Registration Form: https://maacce.wufoo.com/forms/r1y0zjrq0e735co/
Pre-Conference is worth 6 Hours of PD credit. Participants must attend both sessions to receive the 6 hours of PD credit.
Session 1:
The Bridges Out of Poverty
This workshop is a comprehensive approach to understanding poverty. Participants will receive specific strategies for improving outcomes, but the focus of the workshop is to provide a broad overview of concepts. Bridges Out of Poverty uses the lens of economic class and provides concrete tools and strategies for a community to understand, address, and alleviate poverty. This training assists community organizations, social service agencies, employers, and individuals in gaining insight and strategies to ultimately create stability for all.
Participants of this workshop will: Examine the resources by which you create stability.
• Discover the causes of poverty.
• Create and analyze mental models of economic environments.
• Discover the hidden rules of economic classes.
• Understand how economic environments impact language and story structures.
• Discuss stability within family and support system.
• Importance of building social capital.
• Learn new tools and strategies for improving relationships and outcomes
Session 2:
Preventing and Recovering from Compassion Fatigue
Join this pre-conference, interactive workshop to learn warning signs of compassion fatigue and burnout, and how to use wellness skills to promote self-care and team-care. Engage in real-time activities such as Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) exercises, Professional Quality of Life Quiz and Resilience Assessment Questionnaire. Participants will walk away with more awareness of compassion satisfaction and fatigue and practical suggestions for implementing a holistic wellness plan for personal and professional use.
PRE- CONFERENCE SPEAKERS are SONDRA HUEY and RACHEL JONES. Click here for Speaker Bios
Pre-Conference Fee does not include MAACCE Membership