Deborah Harrison
Class of 2017
contact email
dharrison@yorkcac.org
contact phone
717-718-4253
website
Organization Name
York County Children's Advocacy Center
Fellowship Project
I completed a 3-month, weekly coaching project on mindfulness, responses to vicarious trauma and emotional intelligence, with Work Wisdom, Lancaster PA. My goal was to learn resources to focus on agency-wide and individual responses and plans for managing the vicarious trauma that my staff experience while working with abused children. My project culminated in a personal silent meditation retreat in South Carolina, at the Art of Living Retreat Center.
Organization Affiliation During Your Fellowship Year
York County Children's Advocacy Center
greatest impact of your fellowship year
The program "forced" me to pay attention to self-care and personal development, which often takes a back seat for most Directors. Secondly, I really enjoyed learning to know my "fellow Fellows" better!
Why would you recommend the York federal fellows program?
As Directors we rarely get the opportunity (or have the funding) to focus on our own professional and personal development. This is a rare gift and I am so grateful to have had the opportunity!