Encore Presentation: Identifying and Transforming Secondary Traumatic Stress

An informative and interactive workshop designed for social workers or others in the healing professions that will look at secondary traumatic stress (STS) and its impact on how we do this work. We will define and assess our own level of STS and discuss how to create a plan for sustaining in this work. Skills and interventions will be explored and practiced on an individual and group level.

Kristi Glotzbach, MSSW, LCSW, has over 25 years working with child-welfare involved children and their families, in both residential and community-based settings. While working in residential treatment with adolescent females who have experienced complex trauma, she helped create a specialized program to help stabilize this population, increase continuity of care, and help these youth work towards permanency. Kristi is currently the Chief Clinical Officer for Family Ark Jeffersonville, Indiana. She oversees their outpatient behavioral health center and transitional living program for women who are struggling with substance use disorder. Kristi is passionate about the prevention of childhood trauma, early screening, and intervention for children who have experienced trauma or intergenerational substance use and abuse. Kristi is a Faculty Trainer for the Traumatic Stress Institute and an advisory board member for the Center for Promoting Recovery and Resilience at the Kent School of Social Work.