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Lessons Learned for Protecting and Educating Children after the Gulf Coast Hurricanes
ReplyDelete*As we all know hurricanes are a huge force of nature that can devastate an immense amount of things. When people think of hurricanes they think of one thing...Hurricane Katrina. Recently the Golf Coast has been hit with numerous hurricanes, non-more powerful than Hurricane Katrina. Hurricanes have caused devastating damage to states along the Gulf Coast. More devastating than the actual hurricane, is the devastating effects of the aftermath. Many become consumed with the fear of the children and families that are displaced after hurricanes hit. This is an unfortunate reality for those who have been effected by these hurricanes first hand. The torment of not knowing where their next meal is coming from, where family members are at, and where their next meal is coming from is enough to break ones spirit. "Gulf Coast state and local officials and others throughout the country have worked hard to protect and support children affected by the hurricanes" http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-06-680R. It is good to know that many people have made efforts to rescue and search for the missing children effected by natural disasters. The kindness of others never ceases to amaze me. Although perhaps not every child missing is going to be found, it puts me at ease to know that efforts are being made. By using search techniques currently, it can be used for future responses to catastrophic disasters.
We all know that hurricanes are very disasterous. People that have never felt nature in hurricanes, tornados, and earthquakes will never know.These natural disasters are very deadly! Its sad that the people taht have to experience this great force of nature have to lose everything. I went on this website www.gao.gov/htext/d06680r.html
ReplyDeleteand it gave a lot of great information on how they try and help these people who lose everything.
When learning of a new Hurricane that has destroyed homes for many individuals, I have only focused on the damage and the loss people have endured. I never looked at how this affected a child and their schooling. I also never thought of families being separated if not by death. It is good that with the tragedies that occur from hurricanes, changes are being made to help speed the recovery process. Focusing on re-opening schools and making sure that children are reunited with their families is a great start. Children not being able to attend school after a hurricane is something I thought about but never focused on such as how long a child might go without school. This plays a big part in how the child will excel when re-entering a school system. The child may be behind others if entering a new school. Other factors to consider is the amount of missing children and who can report them missing. Changing this factor allowed for anyone to report a child missing which allowed for more efforts to be made in locating a child. With the most current hurricanes plans for large disasters are underway and will benefit in the future if there is ever a crisis such as a hurricane.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.gao.gov/new.items/d06680r.pdf
We all know that hurricanes are very disastrous. People that have never felt nature in hurricanes, tornados, and earthquakes will never know. These natural disasters are very deadly! Its sad that the people that have to experience this great force of nature have to lose everything. I went on this website www.gao.gov/htext/d06680r.html
ReplyDeleteand it gave a lot of great information on how they try and help these people who lose everything.
In August and September 2005, thousands of children were displaced from their homes as a result of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Questions were raised about their safety and the services provided to the most vulnerable children affected by the hurricanes: unaccompanied minors and children in foster care. In addition, thousands of school-aged children requiring educational services were displaced from their schools.
http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/28/07/ad.pdf
This shows how people did try and help these people who were in this disaster. In view of these circumstances, we conducted work under the Comptroller General’s authority to learn more about the challenges encountered and lessons learned in:
(1) locating missing children;
(2) locating and serving Louisiana’s displaced foster children; and
(3) reopening K-12 schools and educating displaced school-aged children.
In February 2006, we offered or provided briefings to the staffs of your committees on our preliminary observations. Enclosed is a briefing summary.
Gulf Coast state and local officials and others throughout the country have worked hard to protect and support children affected by the hurricanes. However, a number of lessons learned from these hurricanes could improve future responses to catastrophic events and, in some cases, to other disasters as well.
• State and local disaster plans could better protect children if they integrated the needs of child welfare and education agencies. For example, schools can reopen more quickly when local relief officials work with school personnel to coordinate how resources will be allocated. With schools in operation, communities can focus on recovery. Moreover, child welfare and education agencies can better prepare for and respond to large-scale disasters by maintaining emergency contact information for staff and foster parents and developing evacuation instructions.
• Children could benefit from data-sharing agreements among organizations. Agreements to share data on displaced children and families could help speed efforts to locate them.
• Flexibility in certain federal reporting requirements can allow states and localities to focus more attention on recovery efforts.
A lot of people worked hard to help these children. It’s sad to know that so many children had to go through this hardship.
This was a very informative article. The article discusses the child/family displacement issues as a result of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The article explains a research study that was designed to identify the lessons learned after these disasters and how responses to catastrophies can be imoroved in the future.
ReplyDeleteThis article explains the difficulties that Lousiana officials had as they tried to locate children after the hurricanes. The obstacles of obtaining displaced childrens' informtion were described; there were privacy/confidentiality issues. After the hurricanes, officils tried to create memorandums of understanding to obtain the needed information. They are now trying to revise laws so that it will be easier for displaced children to be located after disasters. The ideas and points presented are really good. These provisions in disaster plans need to be made. (Changes in policies regarding education and release of information)
The article also discusses the obstacles of locating foster children. Social workers' adoption records were lost and caused delays in court proceedings. Some Louisiana localities were in the process of putting the adoption information into a state-wide computer system before the storm; however, very little information had been enetered into this system. The idea of state-wide computer databases is an excellent idea. We never can tell when an agency's computer system may be distroyed.
This study presented some real issues that need to be addressed. Hopefully, by identifying the problems in disater plans, laws, and the overall response to the hurricanes, provisions can be made so that future diaster responses will operate much smoother. This study was veru beneficial.
My reference
ReplyDeleteBriefing for Congressional Staff--Gulf Coast Hurricanes: Lessons Learned for Protecting and Educating Children http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d06680r.pdf
Natural disasters are something that any of us can control or prevent from happening. The best thing is just to prepare when they are predicted to come. Natural disasters can cause people to be left without a home, schools, communities, neighborhoods, can be destroyed. Natural disasters can leave people to figure how their future will turn out. According to the article many children and families were greatly affected by Hurricane Katrina. These events can cause children to question their parent of why these terrible events happen. It can also raise questions in the minds of parents and officials. Worries about safety, continued education, jobs, missing families, and homelessness can raise questions and many concerns.
ReplyDeleteThe article discusses the disaster plans that could improve protecting children. In this plan school can open earlier when school personnel to coordinate how resource will be allocated. With school in session, the community can continue in other improvements after the storm. Child welfare services cad provide needed services to foster parents. The article focuses on the challenge of locating missing children. Children were separated from their parents and were sent to shelters. The NCMEC is responsible for helping children to reunite with their families. With special delivery challenges, all out of state foster families were managed by caseworkers in Louisiana with nearly any supervision by the case workers. Foster families who stayed out of state were hit with problems of having their health services and medication accepted. During great chaos, levels of stress are heightened and this can cause for more protective service intervention. Some foster parents were unable to handle the situation of the hurricane and returned children back to the agency. There was great concerned about how the aftermath of the storm would be funded. These funds would help with recovery efforts.
Gao. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d06680r.pdf
This article, as many others was very informative and packed with new things that I had no idea about. It speaks about the child and family displacement that took place during hurricane Katrina, and the issues that it caused. The article was based upon a research study, which was designed to identify the lessons learned after these disasters and how responses to catastrophes can be improved in the future. More devastating than the actual hurricane, is the devastating effects of the aftermath. Many become consumed with the fear of the children and families that are displaced after hurricanes hit. This is an unfortunate reality for those who have been effected by these hurricanes first hand. The torment of not knowing where their next meal is coming from, where family members are at, and where their next meal is coming from is enough to break ones spirit. "Gulf Coast state and local officials and others throughout the country have worked hard to protect and support children affected by the hurricanes"
ReplyDeletehttp://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-06-680R.
This article discusses a very big topic in today's society: natural disasters and the effect they have on citizens. With recent events such as the earthquakes in Haiti and Chile, this article is extremely relevant and informative. In the unfortunate event of a natural disaster, it is very difficult, frustrating, and time consuming to get information on people and try to place them. This is especially difficult when working with minors, because there are many laws and policies protecting youth and sensitive identifying information. For example, when Hurricane Katrina hit the golf coast, countless families were seperated and caused massive panic and fear from both professionals and family members. Research has shown that the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina left a devastating number of orphans and children seperated from their parents. One of the biggest problems that occur during a natural disaster is the lost of communication and technology. In the 21st century, records and our most important paperwork are stored electronically. However, this is important because during these times of need, it is almost impossible and very time consuming to gather such records as drivers liscence, social security card, etc. The government is working to pass laws that will help in times of natural disasters with placement, records, etc.
ReplyDeleteBriefing for Congressional Staff--Gulf Coast Hurricanes: Lessons Learned for Protecting and Educating Children http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d06680r.pdf
This article speaks about protecting and supporting children in the Gulf Coast that have been affected by hurricanes. Although there have been many conscious efforts put forth to protect children in these situations, there are lessons that could be discussed in order to future responses to severe events and disasters. The following were some ideas that could be implemented in order to improve responses to disaster. "State and local disaster plans could better protect children if they integrated the needs of child welfare and education agencies. For example, schools can reopen more quickly when local relief officials work with school personnel to coordinate how resources will be allocated. With schools in operation, communities can focus on recovery. Moreover, child welfare and education agencies can better prepare for and respond to large-scale disasters by maintaining emergency contact information for staff and foster parents and developing evacuation instructions. Children could benefit from data sharing agreements among organizations. Agreements to share data on displaced children and families could help speed efforts to locate them. Flexibility in certain federal reporting requirements can allow states and localities to focus more attention on recovery efforts."
ReplyDeleteIn reading this I thought that research position was a little to late. Why wait until there is a problem to do research. In my professional opinion there should already be a standard method in how children are handled in the wake of a natural disaster. They are society's most precious and tender jewels and they must be taken care of.The needs of the children should be taken into consideration and there should be extensive preparation for emergencies. I feel like the system failed the children who were lost and misplaced due to the hurricane.I thought that children and those who were in health care facilities were suppose to be taken of first. I understand that in times like these everyone is scared , but if there are more effective measures put into place all parties involved could increase their chance of living while also saving others.
ReplyDeleteAlthough there is a certain approach to the issue of programs. Its very important for all programs to form rescue team in serch for children. There should always be certain techniques. Certain state should have a particular watch or security strictly for the use of finding families.
ReplyDeleteThis article speaks about protecting and supporting children in the Gulf Coast that have been affected by hurricanes."In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Save the Children worked quickly to create opportunities for children to cope with troubling experiences in secure settings.
ReplyDeleteWith the close collaboration of corporations, local school systems, volunteer and nonprofit groups, universities and government agencies, Save the Children has helped provide in-school emotional support, prepare schools to re-open, repair and re-supply child care facilities, and support after-school, summer, and holiday programs so children can get back to learning as quickly as possible."