Children Struggling in Post-Katrina Louisiana, Latest Research Shows http://www.mailmanschool.org/news/display.asp?id=699
These children are among the most medically needy child population in the United States, and at the highest level of risk of the 20,000 or more children still displaced in Mississippi and Louisiana.
• 55% of elementary school age children had a behavior or learning problem.
• 42% of children three years and older needed developmental or mental health services.
Full study
http://www.childrenshealthfund.org/PDF/BR-WhitePaper_Final.pdf
Thank you for posting this video. Half the time we focus on poverty abroad, and forget that right in the midst of America's plenty and wealth, there the marginalized poor who are still suffering from the vestiges of slavery, and the impact of Katrina, a problem that is rarely talked about. Thanks, thanks, thanks and there is need to address that post stress traumatic disorders resulted from the tragedies of slavery and of Katrina!
mchigubu 2 years ago
The psychological impact on these kids is done. The damage has been done. They will grow up with that event burned into their memory. It will affect them as they grow up.
It's like the kids in Afghanistan and Iraq. They will remember all their lives that we were there. They'll always remember "when the Americans were here.". Kids that are victims of the storm(s) won't be able to not see those images in their minds. Forever.
foley15136 3 years ago
Are we really surprise after the continual failure of FEMA and the Federal government? We need to get back to being our brothers keeper. Government is too busy giving away money to wall street without attached. It is a lesson in class struggle and the powerful dominating the penny banks of all Americans.
Monkmo08 3 years ago