We just launched a completely free project that we have been working on for a year - our second round or support groups for animal welfare professionals!
The entire team is full of therapists, psychologists, and professors who are also animal lovers, and we all work or volunteer as well in rescue and rehab. Our goal is to eventually turn this into its own research based non profit that focuses on connecting animal welfare professionals and volunteers to no cost community based mental health support.
We launched this after recognizing the emotional demands, compassion fatigue, and burnout, and finding out just how few resources are available.
This will be a 10 week online group at no cost to participants that begins in Feb, and a second group in late spring. To be eligible for a group people must work or volunteer in an animal shelter or animal rescue group and be at least 18 years of age.
Previous group participants have demonstrated significant improvement in their mental health and burnout and many left feeling much more connected to their work, colleagues, and the animals under their care.
If this sounds helpful to anyone, we'd appreciate you completing or sharing this information and the registration page which can be found
https://sites.google.com/view/animalgroup/registration
If anyone has any questions about this please feel free to reach out!
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Jennifer Witkowski
Owner
Miles To Go Kitten Rehab
NC
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