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Tips from American School Counselor Association on dealing with Hurricane Katrina Relief

Please feel free to pass it along to any counselors who may need it.

When dealing with the devastation from Hurricane Katrina, here are a few tips that may help your students and/or community members. Try and keep routines as normal as possible. Children gain security from the predictability of routine.

  • Limit exposure to television and the news
  • Be honest with kids and share with them as much information as they are developmentally able to handle.
  • Listen to students' fears and concerns.
  • Parents and adults need to first deal with and assess their own responses to crisis and stress.
  • Rebuild and reaffirm attachments and relationships.
  • Explore ways to eliminate and reduce stressors
  • Stay physically healthy
  • Help others

For a free downloadable version of "After the Storm -- A guide to the help children cope with the psychological effects of a hurricane", created by Annette La Greca, Scott Sevin, and Elaine Sevin.

To offer support to affected areas please visit The American Red Cross and/or The Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Take care-

Amanda Harting
Education Coordinator
American School Counselor Association
1101 King St., Suite 625
Alexandria, VA 22314
(703) 683-2722 ext. 112
FAX: (703) 683-1619
mailto:maharting@schoolcounselor.org

Erin Flynn
School Counselor
Guidance Department
Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School
256 Main Street
South Paris, ME 04281
mailto:meflynn@sad17.k12.me.us
Phone:  207-743-8914
Fax:  207-743-5326