Deborah Harrison

Class of 2017

 
 

contact email

dharrison@yorkcac.org

contact phone

717-718-4253

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!