Join Whole Health Louisiana in our informative sessions about topics relating to the implementation of trauma-informed care.

You are a Superhero AND Human: Strategies to prevent and reduce secondary traumatic stress with speaker Stephen Phillippi, Jr., Ph.D., LCSW, CCFC – Center for Evidence to Practice, LSU School of Public Health

Dr. Stephen Phillippi will address strategies for preventing and reducing secondary traumatic stress among professionals who support others in crisis. It will highlight the balance between being a dedicated “superhero” caregiver and maintaining human well-being while focusing on practical approaches to self-care, resilience, and organizational support systems.

He received his PhD from LSU, MSW from Tulane, and BA from Loyola New Orleans. He is a licensed clinical social worker and clinically certified forensic counselor. He has a thirty-plus-year history of developing, managing, evaluating, and providing direct services. Dr. Phillippi is the principal investigator on several studies, teaches, writes, consults, and participates in a number of professional and public service boards. He is a full professor with tenure, teaching both Master’s and PhD students.

Significant awards and honors include the 2022 Jim Finks Endowed Chair in Health Promotion; the 2013 National Champion of Change Award from the MacArthur Foundation for reform work in juvenile justice; the 2015 National Association of Social Workers Spotlight Recognition, that highlights social worker leadership and their contributions to the field; the 2016 National Conference of State Legislatures – National Legislative Research, Document Award; and the 2018 LSU School of Public Health – Faculty of the Year Award

Dr. Phillippi’s most significant contributions to science to date include identifying needs and gaps in behavioral health and justice systems, creating policy and practice changes to support research-driven prevention and intervention, and developing translational methods to grow such programming to scale in a sustainable fashion. Several of these efforts have been documented and disseminated in research literature, textbooks, and/or converted into monographs, curricula, and technical reports to reach a multi-disciplinary group of policy makers and administrators nationally.

Register for the Lunch n Learn here: bit.ly/WHL_LunchLearn