• The Healing Journey Leadership Training
• Support Training Program
• Care for the Professional Caregiver

Care for the Professional Caregiver

Research strongly suggests that patient-centered care, stress relief and employee retention are directly related to the ability of healthcare professionals to obtain supportive care for themselves.

Wellspring’s Care for the Professional Caregivers Program is designed to provide front-line professional workers with effective self-help tools to manage work-related stress and fatigue. 

‘Burnout’ in front-line health care professions is a well-known phenomenon, with a potentially serious impact on professionals, patients and health care organizations.  The Care for the Professional Caregivers Program is designed to educate professional caregivers about burn-out, focusing on vicarious trauma and loss as a key contributor.  The program also addresses how burn-out can be recognized and prevented, and teaches coping strategies specially designed for the workplace.

Wellspring has delivered the Care for the Professional Caregivers Program to over 700 nurses, social workers and other professions in the health care industry in Ontario.  In a study measuring the efficacy of the Care for the Professional Caregiver Program, the participants found significant improvements in the levels of workplace stressors after accessing the program*.

Wellspring has offered the Care for the Professional Caregivers Program to health care professionals from a wide variety of different health care institutions or organizations, including:

• The Hospital for Sick Children
• London Health Sciences Centre Regional Cancer Program
• Southlake Regional Health Sciences Centre
• Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
• Toronto General Hospital
• University Health Network
• Women’s College Hospital
• Canadian Paraplegic Association
• Credit Valley Hospital
• Ovarian Cancer Canada
• Native Canadian Centre of Toronto
• Royal Victoria Hospital
• Toronto East General Hospital
• Toronto Rehabilitation Institute 

The Care for the Professional Caregivers Program offers participants an opportunity to better equip themselves with stress reduction techniques, socializing and networking opportunities in a relaxed environment.  

Participants will leave with:

• The tools to identify experiences of vicarious trauma and loss when working
• The ability to apply practical self-care tools as professional caregivers
• Needed coping skills and techniques to help manage and reduce workplace stressors
• The support and common and shared experiences of peers they pertain to workplace stressors