subject: Children Still Can't Get Past Katrina [print this page] Children Still Can't Get Past Katrina Children Still Can't Get Past Katrina
The USA Today reported that newly released study by the journal Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, that thousands of children are still suffering from the effects of Katrina, due to the lack of stable housing and serious emotional disturbances.
The 163,000 children that were displaced in Mississippi and Louisiana, are five times more likely than others to suffer from severe emotional disturbances.
Less than half of the displaced children needing psychological assistance received treatment.
The BP oil spill has added to the suffering. The journal identified that more than a third of the children living within a mile of the Gulf Coast suffered some sort of physical or mental distress, since the rig blew.
60% of the children have been forced in to some form of group housing.
The displacement issues has held back more than a third of children in middle school and high school, and are now 1+ years older than their classmates.
The National Commission on Children and Disasters is making recommendations to the president and Congress to better disaster preparedness, response, and long term recovery for children. These recommendations can eventually be incorporated in to legislation or form new regulation for the protection of children.
M.H.M. & Associates Enterprise, Inc. (MHM) sees this opportunity for emergency and related service agencies nationwide, especially those in disaster areas, to be prepared for possible funds coming their way. Especially those agencies dealing with children. Those agencies that provide the following services should especially be in the lookout for those earmarked funds: first-responders, food banks, shelters, emergency response units, mental health organizations, hospitals/clinics, transitional living homes, providers of basic needs and services, etc.
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