Course Description

Purpose:

To enhance professional practice, values, skills, and knowledge about ways to mitigate burnout and enhance self-care through community care.

Goals:  

Throughout the training, participants will discuss various self-care options and ways to best develop a plan to ensure their healthiest selves in this work.

Objectives:

  • Participants will understand the difference between self-care and self-soothing strategies.
  • Participants will develop a personal self-care plan.
  • Participants will learn effective strategies for building community to sustain the self-care plan.

Instructor

Clara Anderson Sainte, LCSW, LSCSW

Clara Anderson Sainte, LCSW, LSCSW, she/her/hers, is the Diversity & Inclusion Specialist with ReDiscover Mental Health. She is also a therapist in private practice with CenterPoint Counseling & Recovery and trained as a Grief Recovery Specialist. Clara serves the community through a variety of roles: 6th District Commissioner City of Kansas City’s LGBTQ Commission, Chair of Children’s Mercy’s Equity and Diversity Council; Big Brothers Big Sisters DEI Board Member; and healthcare instructor for Johnson County Community College. Clara previously served as a board member for KC Center of Inclusion and Mental Health America of the Heartland. Clara’s master’s degree in social work is from UMKC and she is an alumnus of Northwest Missouri State University. She spends time away from work with her husband and their children enjoying their favorite spots around KC.