Resilience Alliance

Promoting Resilience and Reducing Secondary Traumatic Stress

Understanding the Challenge

Research shows that up to 50% of child welfare professionals experience high or very high levels of Secondary Traumatic Stress.

Research also indicates that quality supervision and organizational supports are significantly associated with decreased rates of STS.

Resilience Alliance Curriculum includes:

  • Attending one group per week for 12 weeks via Zoom

  • Identifying work-related adversities common in child welfare practice

  • Enhancing stress-protective attitudes by promoting optimism and self-efficacy

  • Supporting the development of skills to manage work-related adversity

  • Increasing collaboration between co-workers and across levels of the organization to address work-related adversities inherent in child

Our goals? To improve knowledge and skills to address STS and to reduce rates of STS among staff members

Resilience Alliance is unique in that it finally gives language and acknowledgement to what our neuroscience has told us, that when we are in crisis we cannot learn or help others. We can get stuck when we are affected by other's trauma day in and day out. The workforce has long struggled with naming this and equipping staff with the skills and tools needed so they may mitigate the adverse outcomes of secondary trauma. But finally, we have a program that is empowering the workforce to manage their responses in a way that is most beneficial to the vulnerable families we serve.

-Natasha, KanCoach and Resilience Alliance leader

Interested in learning more about Resilience Alliance or taking part in KanCoach? These programs are available for many of the Kansas Child Welfare Professionals we serve. Just reach out!

info@childally.org