Stories of Resilience after Disasters
Children of Katria
The Story of Resilience Outliers—people who do exceptionally well even in dire circumstances
by Alice Fothergil and Lori Peek
Children of Katrina offers one of the only long-term, multi-year studies of young people following disaster. Sociologists Alice Fothergill and Lori Peek spent seven years after Hurricane Katrina interviewing and observing several hundred children and their family members, friends, neighbors, teachers, and other caregivers. In this book, they focus intimately on seven children between the ages of three and eighteen, selected because they exemplify the varied experiences of the larger group. They find that children followed three different post-disaster trajectories—declining, finding equilibrium, and fluctuating—as they tried to regain stability. The children’s moving stories illuminate how a devastating disaster affects individual health and well-being, family situations, housing and neighborhood contexts, schooling, peer relationships, and extracurricular activities. This work also demonstrates how outcomes were often worse for children who were vulnerable and living in crisis before the storm.
The Story of Resilience Outliers—people who do exceptionally well even in dire circumstances
by Alice Fothergil and Lori Peek
Children of Katrina offers one of the only long-term, multi-year studies of young people following disaster. Sociologists Alice Fothergill and Lori Peek spent seven years after Hurricane Katrina interviewing and observing several hundred children and their family members, friends, neighbors, teachers, and other caregivers. In this book, they focus intimately on seven children between the ages of three and eighteen, selected because they exemplify the varied experiences of the larger group. They find that children followed three different post-disaster trajectories—declining, finding equilibrium, and fluctuating—as they tried to regain stability. The children’s moving stories illuminate how a devastating disaster affects individual health and well-being, family situations, housing and neighborhood contexts, schooling, peer relationships, and extracurricular activities. This work also demonstrates how outcomes were often worse for children who were vulnerable and living in crisis before the storm.
View Documentary & Trailer of Katrina's Children
Directed by Laura Belsey - Produced by Babs Johnson and Laura Belsey - Executive Producer Richard Colton - Shadow Picture, New York, NY
Katrina's Children is a feature-length documentary about nineteen children from different neighborhoods of New Orleans. Told entirely from the children's point of view, the film explores the impact of Hurricane Katrina on their lives. We enter their world through their stories, their play and their art and we have animated several of their drawings, magically bringing to life their interior universe. Aching with sadness, yet grounded in hope, Katrina's Children i is ultimately a celebration of children's extraordinary resilience and a tribute to New Orleans' unique and indomitable spirit.
Directed by Laura Belsey - Produced by Babs Johnson and Laura Belsey - Executive Producer Richard Colton - Shadow Picture, New York, NY
View Trailer for Katrina's Children (2010) - http://www.katrinaschildren.com/web/html/h0300.html
View Documentary
Directed by Laura Belsey - Produced by Babs Johnson and Laura Belsey - Executive Producer Richard Colton - Shadow Picture, New York, NY
Katrina's Children is a feature-length documentary about nineteen children from different neighborhoods of New Orleans. Told entirely from the children's point of view, the film explores the impact of Hurricane Katrina on their lives. We enter their world through their stories, their play and their art and we have animated several of their drawings, magically bringing to life their interior universe. Aching with sadness, yet grounded in hope, Katrina's Children i is ultimately a celebration of children's extraordinary resilience and a tribute to New Orleans' unique and indomitable spirit.
Directed by Laura Belsey - Produced by Babs Johnson and Laura Belsey - Executive Producer Richard Colton - Shadow Picture, New York, NY
View Trailer for Katrina's Children (2010) - http://www.katrinaschildren.com/web/html/h0300.html
View Documentary
Principles for Principals – Leading the Way to School Safety
Lessons Learned from 9/11 By Ada Rosario Dolch
Ada Rosario Dolch’s primary message in Principles for Principals – Leading the Way to School Safety, The evacuation of the eight public schools within a quarter of a mile of the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001 is one of the greatest “untold” success stories. Despite her own personal pain; knowing that her sister was ever present on the 103rd floor of Tower 1 at the World Trade Center; she had to focus on the safety of the students and staff. Even though all 9,000 children plus staff were safely evacuated on that tragic day this amazing story was never printed on a front page of a newspaper or featured on any TV News station. In the midst of chaos students ranging in ages from three to eighteen years – grammar, middle and high schools were safely evacuated without injury from less than a quarter mile of Ground Zero. Ada Rosario Dolch was one of those 8 principals. More about Principles for Principals – Leading the Way to School Safety
Lessons Learned from 9/11 By Ada Rosario Dolch
Ada Rosario Dolch’s primary message in Principles for Principals – Leading the Way to School Safety, The evacuation of the eight public schools within a quarter of a mile of the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001 is one of the greatest “untold” success stories. Despite her own personal pain; knowing that her sister was ever present on the 103rd floor of Tower 1 at the World Trade Center; she had to focus on the safety of the students and staff. Even though all 9,000 children plus staff were safely evacuated on that tragic day this amazing story was never printed on a front page of a newspaper or featured on any TV News station. In the midst of chaos students ranging in ages from three to eighteen years – grammar, middle and high schools were safely evacuated without injury from less than a quarter mile of Ground Zero. Ada Rosario Dolch was one of those 8 principals. More about Principles for Principals – Leading the Way to School Safety
- Teaching 9/11 Resources
- Please Link to the World Trade Center Memorial web site and then scroll down to read Ada Rosario Dolch’s story #1 Rebuilding a School Community - select the videos of her reflections form that day and her story about rebuilding her school community. Link to the http://tributewtc.org/exhibits/online-story-collections
- Tools for education Teaching 9//11 - World Trade Center Resource
http://teaching911.tributewtc.org/
