This document announces a pre-summit workshop on assessing secondary traumatic stress in organizations and creating resiliency plans. The workshop will provide attendees with a self-assessment tool to evaluate their organization's practices in protecting workers from indirect trauma exposure. Attendees will then use the results to develop a blueprint for enhancing resiliency in their workforce. The workshop aims to describe the impact of indirect trauma exposure on workers and identify risk and protective factors. It will be presented by Dr. Leslie Anne Ross, an expert on secondary traumatic stress and compassion fatigue in trauma-informed organizations.

1. Pre-Summit #5 :Healing The Healer: Assessing
Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS) Informed
Organizational Practices: Creating a Blueprint for Resiliency in the
Workforce
AUGUST 21, 2015 | TOWN & COUNTRY HOTEL, SAN DIEGO, CA
REGISTRATION & INFORMATION ON OTHER TRAININGS: HERE
DATE/TIME: Friday, August 21, 2015 |8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
FEES: $80 by August 14| $95 after August 14
ABSTRACT: Trauma-Informed Practice includes workplace wellness strategies to reduce the
risk of Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS), Compassion Fatigue, Burnout, and Vicarious
Trauma. This presentation describes a STS-Informed Self- Assessment tool for organizations
created by experts in STS and members of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network’s STS
Committee. This self-assessment provides a diagnostic picture of an organization’s strengths
and weakness at protecting workers from direct and indirect trauma exposure, and was
designed to provide a blueprint for training and organizational change. This workshop will
provide attendees with a hands on opportunity to assess the degree to which their organization
utilizes STS-informed practices, and create a blueprint for enhancing resiliency in the
workforce.
OBJECTIVES: At the conclusion of this session, the participant will be able to:
-Describe the impact of indirect exposure on the workforce, including risk and protective
factors
-Use the STS-informed Organizational Assessment to evaluate their organization’s progress
toward protecting workers and enhancing resiliency in the workforce

2. -Develop a plan for enhancing resiliency in professionals exposed to indirect trauma
CONTINUING EDUCATION:
$45 ($55 on site) - This training is sponsored by The Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma
(IVAT) at Alliant International University. IVAT is approved by the American Psychological
Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. IVAT maintains
responsibility for this continuing education program and its content. IVAT is recognized by the
National Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC) to offer continuing education for National
Certified Counselors (Provider #5659). IVAT adheres to NBCC Continuing Education
Guidelines. IVAT is approved by the CA Board of Behavioral Sciences (PCE #33) to offer
continuing education for LCSWs and MFTs. This training meets the qualifications for up to 4.0
hours of continuing education for MFTs and LCSWs as required by the CA Board of Behavioral
Sciences. IVAT is approved by the California Board of Registered Nurses to offer continuing
education for nurses (CEP #13737). IVAT is approved by the State Bar of California to offer
Minimum Continuing Legal Education for attorneys (#11600). CE credits approved by CA
agencies are accepted in most states.
For information on continuing education credits, please contact psmith@alliant.edu
PRESENTER:
Dr. Leslie Anne Ross Psy.D. is currently the Vice
President of the Leadership Center at Children’s
Institute, Inc. (CII) in Los Angeles; CA. where she
oversees programs in research, development, training
and implementation of evidence-based practices for
the treatment of child trauma and family
violence. She is the Project Director of CII’s
National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN)
partnership in the Los Angeles Child Trauma
Collaborative and is co-chair of the NCTSN
Secondary Traumatic Stress National Collaborative
group which focuses on the occupational risk of
secondary trauma associated with working with
children and families exposed to trauma. Dr. Ross
provides training and consultation for individuals and
organizations on early intervention and risk-
management of secondary trauma, compassion
fatigue, and burnout both locally and nationally. She
oversees the program development of CII’s national
annual conference, “Vicarious Trauma: Wellness

3. Strategies for Helping Professionals and Their
Organizations.” In addition, she is a faculty trainer
and developer for NCTSN’s Core Curriculum on
Child Trauma, and is co-author of “Responding to
Domestic Violence: The Whole Person Approach”
integrating wellness strategies in a group treatment
model for adult victims of DV and their children.
ALSO PLAN TO ATTEND:
20th International Summit & Training on Violence, Abuse & Trauma
August 23-26, 2015
Town & Country Resort & Convention Center
REGISTRATION & INFORMATION