Disasters and kids – how to help them recover
- Written by Betty Lai, Assistant Professor of Public Health, Georgia State University
Louisiana’s historic floods have killed at least eight people. As many as 20,000 others have been rescued and thousands have been forced into shelters.
Disasters, whether natural, like hurricanes and floods, or man-made, like wars, can cause tremendous upheaval in people’s lives.
Imagine what being evacuated from your home – even...