Hurricane Survivors Lack Access To Mental Health Services
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- Hurricane Survivors Lack Access To Mental Health Services
- The impact of Hurricane Katrina on technology and media infrastructure…
- Introduction: Special Issue on Hurricane Katrina: schools culture…
- In the wake of Hurricane Katrina: delivering crisis mental health…
- Walls’ play picks up Hurricane
- Stakeholder organizations: Hurricane Katrina and the New Orleans…
Hurricane Survivors Lack Access To Mental Health Services
eMaxHealth.com – Dec 22, 2007
In addition they noted that many mental health care facilities and personnel were lost after the hurricane especially in the New Orleans area. Those who were identified as having a post-hurricane mental disorder commonly indicated they felt no need to seek treatment. The majority of the respondents who did get treatment after the hurricane received it from general medical providers. Many of these respondents received medication but few had access to psychotherapy. The researchers note that their study sample likely underrepresented those who were most disadvantaged or ill because people unreachable by phone were excluded. Wang and colleagues conclude that future disaster management plans should anticipate the mental health care needs of people with pre-existing disorders who need to maintain treatment as well as survivors who may be vulnerable to emotional difficulties and mental disorders triggered by the disaster itself… 5 percent were receiving any treatment. Among the 21 percent of respondents who said they had been in treatment for a mental disorder prior to the hurricane 23 percent were having difficulty maintaining treatment after the storm and were receiving reduced treatment or no treatment at all. Respondents with pre-hurricane mental disorders cited loss of financial resources such as unemployment and loss of insurance as a significant barrier to maintaining treatment. In addition they noted that many mental health care facilities and personnel were lost after the hurricane especially in the New Orleans area. Those who were identified as having a post-hurricane mental disorder commonly indicated they felt no need to seek treatment. The majority of the respondents who did get treatment after the hurricane received it from general medical providers. Many of these respondents received medication but few had access to psychotherapy.
The impact of Hurricane Katrina on technology and media infrastructure…
Free with registration – Multicultural Education – AccessMyLibrary.com – Dec 22, 2007
(Schools Culture and Trauma)(Report) Perhaps one of the worst disasters in United States history Hurricane Katrina is expected to have a lasting impact on the economies of Louisiana Mississippi Alabama and Florida with losses in the billions of dollars (Zwaniecki 2005). Given that the economic foundation of the approximately 600 schools and libraries affected was far from ideal before the hurricane the prospect of recovery for technology and media infrastructures seemed dim. The United States Department of Education appointed Henry Johnson current Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education to examine the specific educational needs of Louisiana Mississippi and the Gulf region that were caused by the Katrina disaster as the department sought ways to redirect funding to meet the needs of disaster victims (United States Department of Education 2005). Johnson was quick to allow waivers of requirements under 2416(a) of ESEA that required that 25% of Title IID monies be spent on professional development. Although this was helpful and the United States Department of Education was to come up with several other initiatives to assist schools in the affected regions this study indicates very strongly that technology directors and media specialists throughout the region consider the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) eRate Program to be the true hero so far in reconstructing technology infrastructures throughout the affected areas.
Introduction: Special Issue on Hurricane Katrina: schools culture…
Free with registration – Multicultural Education – AccessMyLibrary.com – Dec 22, 2007
(Schools Culture and Trauma)(Editorial) This Special Issue on Hurricane Katrina was conceived as a vehicle to address some of the multicultural and ethical considerations that were present or inherent–but not yet fully addressed–in this trauma situation. The editors developed this thematic issue to gather and share critical information with educators from multiple disciplines on the interaction of culture and trauma in a disaster. Our intent is to bring together research critiques and personal stories from multicultural perspectives about Hurricane Katrina and its devastating effects on schools and educational institutions specifically but not exclusively. Most importantly this special issue is an effort to become a voice and an outlet to reflect on the failures successes and mistakes in the response aftermath and the rebuilding process following Katrina; in particular the serendipitous issues of race class and culture that spilled out are addressed. Our goal is to provide insight into these diversity issues that impacted educators’ professionals’ and public and higher education school systems’ ability to be culturally responsive and sensitive to culturally different students during a crisis… Most importantly this special issue is an effort to become a voice and an outlet to reflect on the failures successes and mistakes in the response aftermath and the rebuilding process following Katrina; in particular the serendipitous issues of race class and culture that spilled out are addressed. Our goal is to provide insight into these diversity issues that impacted educators’ professionals’ and public and higher education school systems’ ability to be culturally responsive and sensitive to culturally different students during a crisis. Ultimately this issue’s aim is to use lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina to address the.
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina: delivering crisis mental health…
Free with registration – Multicultural Education – AccessMyLibrary.com – Dec 22, 2007
Just sitting here reflecting on the conversations about racism and relocation with the evacuees I suddenly realize that the missing component in comprehensive crisis counseling with these evacuees is addressing the mental health of communities. More specifically we need a way to gauge the host communities’ solidity and stability over time as a result of the relocating of people who are ethnically culturally and racially different from the existing community members for the sake of both groups the evacuees and the old community members. September 17 2005 I am feeling so frustrated and having a hard time sorting through the circumstances especially from a mental health perspective surrounding Hurricane Katrina. We don’t seem to know what to do and it is too complicated convoluted and overwhelming for one person to sort through. Earlier today I thought to myself as professionals medical and mental health providers and educators from many disciplines; together we know something about almost any situation. We know about diversity of people medically physiologically psychologically biologically sociologically anthropologically historically linguistically educationally economically religiously domestically and internationally over societies generations and civilizations. We have theories therapies theorems techniques strategies treatment plans and models for emergency and crisis situations out the wazoo.
Walls’ play picks up Hurricane
Tulsa World – Dec 22, 2007
leadp { font-size:14px; color:#626466; }Walls’ play picks up Hurricane CALVIN WALLS’ gleaming smile often escorts his friendly nature. But get the Tulsa senior on the basketball court and his demeanor morphs to fierce competitor. “His whole mentality changes” teammate Ray Reese said. “He turns into the Incredible Hulk. He goes out there and plays like a wild man. That’s what we need on this team.
Stakeholder organizations: Hurricane Katrina and the New Orleans…
Free with registration – Multicultural Education – AccessMyLibrary.com – Dec 22, 2007
In a city with one of the highest rates of private school attendance in the country 25% compared to 10% nationally (Newmark & De Rugy 2006) the public schools have been consistently under-funded and neglected. Prior to the storm the district was led by 10 superintendents in 10 years and several have left under clouds of suspicion regarding mishandled money. Until the eyes of the nation fell on this city after Hurricane Katrina struck on 29 August 2005 there had been little political will to improve the failing system. The nation cringed at the TV news clips of poor African Americans huddled dehydrated and dying at the convention center and Superdome waiting for handouts from the government. The embarrassment to the city was real and this may provide the political will to change the city’s public schools permanently. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina the district temporarily lost 100% of its students and did not reopen a single school for more than two months. As it became apparent that the district was not prepared to bring the schools back from such a devastating blow educators began to see a silver lining in Katrina’s dark clouds… The nation cringed at the TV news clips of poor African Americans huddled dehydrated and dying at the convention center and Superdome waiting for handouts from the government. The embarrassment to the city was real and this may provide the political will to change the city’s public schools permanently. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina the district temporarily lost 100% of its students and did not reopen a single school for more than two months. As it became apparent that the district was not prepared to bring the schools back from such a devastating blow educators began to see a silver lining in Katrina’s dark clouds. State School Board member Leslie Jacobs said “The Diaspora of New Orleans represents the opportunity to rebuild our public school system” (Inskeep 2005b). While some saw this as an opportunity to rebuild the system huge segments of the population were living in Houston Baton Rouge Atlanta and hundreds of other places across the country. With the low-income non-white residents most often affected by the disaster it fell to the educational organizations in the city to lead the debate over how the schools should be reopened.