Supporting Those Who Support Children and Families: Recognizing Risk and Building Resilience

Activity Description

This activity explores compassion fatigue and related occupational stress among professionals supporting children and families involved in foster care. Learners will examine common signs and risk factors, distinguish related concepts, and identify practical strategies to support resilience, professional well-being, and long-term sustainability.

Target Audience

Nurses
Physicians

Learning Objectives

  1. Recognize characteristics, risk factors, and signs of compassion fatigue in foster care practice.
  2. Differentiate compassion fatigue, secondary traumatic stress, vicarious trauma, and burnout.
  3. Apply individual, supervisory, team, and organizational strategies to support professional well-being.
  4. Develop a realistic action plan to support personal resilience and professional sustainability.

Additional Information

Course summary

Available credit (Listed in Hours): 
  • 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 0.50 ANCC
  • 0.50 Attendance/Participation
Course opens: 
11/05/2026
Course expires: 
11/04/2029
NameRoleDisclosure of Relevant Financial Relationships with Ineligible Company
Tara Travers, RNPlannerNo relevant financial relationship(s)
with ineligible companies to disclose
Mary Mogg-Postle, MSWPlannerNo relevant financial relationship(s)
with ineligible companies to disclose
Kari Muskopf, MSOT, OTR/LPlanner / SpeakerNo relevant financial relationship(s)
with ineligible companies to disclose
Mandy Lin, MPHPlannerNo relevant financial relationship(s)
with ineligible companies to disclose
Jennifer Jackson-Wohl, DO, CHCQM, FABQAURPPlannerNo relevant financial relationship(s)
with ineligible companies to disclose
Stan Waddell, LPC-SIndependent ReviewerNo relevant financial relationship(s)
with ineligible companies to disclose

Disclosures of relevant financial relationships
In accordance with the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education's (ACCME) Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education, Centene Institute for Advanced Health Education (Centene Institute) requires all those in control of educational content to disclose their financial relationships with ineligible companies within the prior 24 months. Ineligible companies are defined by the ACCME as companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling or distributing health care products used by or on patients. Individuals must disclose all financial relationships, regardless of the amount, with ineligible companies and regardless of their view of the relevance of the relationship to the education. Centene Institute ensures that the content is independent of commercial bias.

None of the planners, speakers, or reviewers for this course have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

Accreditation Statement

In support of improving patient care, The Centene Institute for Advanced Health Education® is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
 
 
 

Credit Designation Statements

Physicians
The Centene Institute for Advanced Health Education® designates this Internet Activity (Enduring Material) for a maximum of 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
 
Nurses
The Centene Institute for Advanced Health Education® designates this Internet Activity (Enduring Material) for a maximum of 0.50 ANCC contact hours.

Available Credit (Listed in Hours)

  • 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 0.50 ANCC
  • 0.50 Attendance/Participation
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