2015 NNHVIP Conference Call for Workshops
“Healing is Justice: Helping Systems of Care Promote Equity”
September 28-29, 2015
The California Endowment’s Center for Healthy Communities, Los Angeles, CA
The National Network of Hospital-based Violence Intervention Programs’ annual conference
draws a diverse audience committed to breaking the cycle of violence and promoting healing in
communities where violent injuries occur. The over 200 attendees include: frontline gang
intervention workers, pediatric and adult physicians, public officials, experts and emerging
researchers from various academic fields, crisis responders, community-based programs and
organizations, social workers, mental health providers, nurses, members of state/local/federal
government, and community members affected by and/or responding to violence. Presentations
are encouraged that honor, promote and build upon the expertise of conference attendees.
Proposed Session Title: Recognizing Stress, Burnout, Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious
Trauma: Healing Mindfulness Practices in Working with Trauma
Suggest a title (8-10 words) that is informative and clearly reflects the presentation content.
PRESENTER(S) BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Name of Lead Speaker/Proposal Submitter: Stan Bosch, Psy. D.
This person will be the contact and is responsible for all session logistics
Job Title: Director Mental Health/Psychotherpist
Action/Caught in the Crossfire
Organization: Soledad Enrichment
NNHVIP affiliation (i.e. member program, emerging program, other.): SEA is a member of the
NNHVIP network and facilitates the Caught in the Crossfire in Los Angeles, CA
Street Address:222 N. Virgil Ave.
City, State, Zip: Los Angeles, CA 90004
Telephone: 213-309-5019
Email: sbosch@seacharter.net
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Additional Speakers: If applicable, identify any additional speakers below with e-mail and phone
information.
Name
E-mail address
Phone #
Nguyet Galaz, MSW
Ngalaz@seacharter.net
213-631-6522
Professional Background: Provide a 1-4 sentence biography for each speaker to be used as an
introduction as well as an overview of your knowledge and experience related to the proposed
session topic and HVIP field; i.e.: years of experience in the related field, degrees held and from
what academic institutions, current appointments, concurrent responsibilities, areas of specialty,
past speaking engagements, etc.
Father Stan Bosch, S.T., Psy. D. is a member of The Missionary Servants of the Most Holy
Trinity, a Catholic religious community working with the poor and abandoned, and has worked
with Los Angeles’s gang involved youth and adults for more than 30 years. In these past years,
Fr. Stan’s work with inner city youth was featured in the National Geographic documentary
“Inside LA Gang Wars”, as well as in various Los Angeles Times articles.
Fr. Stan holds a doctoral degree in psychology with an emphasis in Marriage and Family
Therapy from the California Graduate Institute of the Chicago School of Professional
Psychology. He is a psychotherapist, Co-Director of Mental Health/Personnel Development for
gang intervention and staff workers with Soledad Enrichment Action (SEA) and the City of Los
Angeles’ Gang Reduction and Youth Development Project (GRYD) as well as ‘Caught in the
Crossfire’.
Nguyet Galaz, MSW is Regional Program Manager for Soledad Enrichment Action and
provides oversight for eleven programs including Soledad Enrichment Action’s Caught in the
Crossfire Program. Ms. Galaz possesses more than 14 years of solid professional experience
working with vulnerable populations and over 12 years of progressively responsible program
management experience, with an emphasis on juvenile re-entry, substance abuse treatment, and
behavioral and mental health services. Ms. Galaz holds a master’s degree in social work (MSW)
with an emphasis in mental health from the University of Southern California (USC) and is a
Certified Addictions Treatment Counselor.
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PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION
Presentation Learning Objectives: List 3 educational goals of the presentation that specify
what participants will learn as a result of attending the presentation. (NNHVIP reserves the right to
edit objectives to meet requirements for CEUs)
1. Distinguish between Compassion Fatigue, Vicarious Trauma, Stress and Burnout
2. Identify Stress and Distress in everyday life, and how other’s pain affects the
mental/medical health professional
3. Introduce ‘Emotional Separation’ and ‘Mindfulness’ practices for Mental Health
and Medical Practitioners
Session Categories: Check one or more categories that best represent the focus area of the
presentation.
☐ Promoting Equity / Addressing Bias
☒ Best Practices in Direct Services
☐ Policy and/or Advocacy
☒ Trauma-Informed Care
☐ Bridging Direct Service & Advocacy
☒ Mental Health
☐ Research
☐ Hospital-Community Partnership
☒ Other: Evidence-based Practices
☒ Healing the Healers / Self-Care
I submit this workshop proposal for consideration for the preferred following event format(s):
(Check all that apply)
Presentation Length:
☒ 90 minute breakout session
☐ 40 minute presentation to be paired with another presentation on a similar topic
Presentation Format:
☐
Presentation (with or without Q&A to follow)
☒
Interactive training or conversation
(At this year’s conference, the planning committee is giving special consideration
to interactive workshops that build on the skills and expertise of audience
members. If checked, please specify what methods will be used to ensure
audience participation and interaction on the topic presented.)
This training will be presented using a power-point medium, yet will include
stories and personal/professional experiences with solid psychological data by the
facilitators. It will welcome comments, concerns, anecdotes and personal
experiences by the participants as the center piece of the workshop.
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Session Narrative: Please summarize the presentation in no more than 500 words).
This will be utilized to evaluate the overall relevance and quality of the proposed presentation. If
your presentation is selected, this narrative will also be adapted for the Conference Program.
Abstract: Studies confirm that caregivers play host to a high level of stress, burn-out, and
compassion fatigue in their exposure to trauma, which develops into vicarious or secondary
trauma for the professional. Day in, day out, practitioners struggle to function in care giving
environments that constantly present heart wrenching, emotional challenges. Affecting positive
change in society, a mission so vital to those passionate about caring for others, is perceived as
elusive, if not impossible. This painful reality, coupled with first-hand knowledge of society's
flagrant disregard for the safety and well being of the feeble and frail, takes its toll on everyone
from full time employees to part time volunteers. Eventually, negative attitudes prevail.
Burn-out and Compassion Fatigue symptoms are normal displays of chronic stress resulting from
the care giving work we choose to do and the exposure to the trauma in their patient’s/client’s
lives, thus called vicarious trauma. Leading traumatologist Eric Gentry suggests that people who
are attracted to care giving often enter the field already compassion fatigued. A strong
identification with helpless, suffering, or traumatized people is possibly the motive. It is common
for such people to hail from a tradition of what Gentry labels: other-directed care giving. Simply
put, these are people who were taught at an early age to care for the needs of others before caring
for their own needs. Authentic, ongoing self-care practices are absent from their lives.
This workshop will make the distinctions yet correlations between stress, burn-out, compassion
fatigue, and vicarious trauma while suggesting concrete and practical methods and practices for
self-care.
Presentation Agreement:
 Submit my PowerPoint presentation via email or flash drive no later than September 21, 2015.
 Provide all required information and affirmations for CEU certification, by due dates requested.
 Prepare, duplicate, and distribute handout materials for my presentation at my expense.
 Allow NNHVIP to list my contact information on printed and online materials.
 Presenters may not sell, promote or pitch any specific product or service.
 I understand NNHVIP cannot pay honoraria, travel, per diem, handouts or other costs for
speakers. In appreciation for your contribution, one approved speaker may attend the conference
at no cost for registration.
By submitting your presentation, you are agreeing to the presentation agreement.
*** Email submissions by May 1, 2015, to Ahmed Ali-Bob at ahmed@youthalive.org ***