There is now wide consensus that responding to the COVID-19 pandemic will take months rather than weeks. As CASA/GAL staff and volunteers, we work in high stress, trauma-exposed fields and all need to consider strategies that will help us remain clear-headed, compassionate and present in the long-term rather than racing to just get through another day.

Using evidence-informed strategies, this webinar will offer essential strategies and resources to help all of us manage this difficult time.

Presenter’s bio:
Françoise Mathieu, M.Ed., RP., CCC.
Compassion Fatigue Specialist
Executive Director, TEND.
Françoise Mathieu is a Registered Psychotherapist and a subject matter expert on topics related to compassion fatigue and secondary trauma. She is the executive director of TEND, whose aim is to offer consulting and training to professionals on topics related to secondary trauma, compassion fatigue, burnout, self-care, wellness and organizational health.

Mathieu has extensive experience working with the legal profession, dependency courts, guardians ad litem, Child advocacy Centres, anti-Human Trafficking and law enforcement. She has presented to the California Children’s Law Centre, the LAPD, the Colorado Collaborative Justice Conference, the International Symposium on Child Abuse, the San Diego International Conference on Child and Family Maltreatment, The Boulder County District Attorney’s Office, St Jude’s Children’s Hospital in Memphis, the Chief Coroner’s Office of Ontario, the Los Angeles County Anti-Human Trafficking Task Force and many other agencies who do high stress trauma-exposed work.
Mathieu is one of the founding members of the Secondary Traumatic Stress Consortium. She is the author of “The Compassion Fatigue Workbook” which was published by Routledge in 2012 as well as several articles and publications.