Imagine you have been hired as a consultant to a social service organization. This organization has recently had several employees abruptly quit and still more apply for FMLA due to their own vicarious traumatization. They are seeking your knowledge and expertise to develop a plan to support their employees in the realms of self-care and well-being.
analyze the organization’s current culture and then suggest a plan for implementation that incorporates best practices you have learned in this class for self-care and well-being.
Resources for Assessment:
•Self-Care and Trauma Work
•Characteristics of Successful Wellness Programs
•Promoting Employee Well-Being
•Organizational Prevention of Vicarious Trauma
•CompassPoint-Organizational Self Care
•What About You? A Workbook for Those Who Work with Others (pages 33-38)
•50 Example Mission Statements
Choose one of these fictional social service organizations:
1.The Delaware Alliance against Sexual Assault: Non-profit agency that provides counseling, advocacy and court accompaniment to local victims of sexual assault.
2.Delaware Sanctuary: Non-profit agency that provides individual, group counseling, case management and temporary shelter for victims of child abuse statewide.
Part 1: Create a mission statement for the organization you chose that includes mention of employee support and wellness.
Part 2: Discuss current practices for supporting staff’s self care and well-being (you will need to be creative here. This is a fictional organization so you decide the particulars of how they support staff). Analyze what is working well and what is not.
Part 3: Create a report suggesting a concrete plan for implementing more self-care and wellness attention for staff.
•Include at least five suggestions that would help this organization attend to the needs of their staff.
•Provide examples to guide the organizations’ management team make your recommendations a reality.
Part 4: Discuss at least three likely benefits to the organization should they implement your recommendations.
•Indicate at least three likely results of neglecting staff well being and self -care.
•What might be some of the barriers or challenges to implementing these practices?
