My Personal Story About Hurricanes Katrina and Rita

This Hurricane Katrina and Rita workbook is built on years of experience strengthening the mental health of disaster victims.

Its main purpose is to give psychological first aid to children and adolescents. In that way, it will also be useful to you as an adult, helping you to help the children you know and love, or children for whom you are a caretaker or teacher.

Perhaps you are a temporary foster parent during this disaster, or a shelter worker who has responsibility for evacuated children and families. Perhaps you are helping as a volunteer.

This workbook is designed to strengthen ways of coping for both you and the children you know, and to help you provide love, help and support to children and yourself during this disaster.

Children and teenagers can use this book to teach all people across the whole country, to learn how to be safer next time nature starts to get very dangerous. We need children and adolescents' help to think about more ways to be even stronger and smarter about times when whole cities and states have emergencies. All children can share their Hurricane Katrina and Rita stories and can learn more about what hurricane and flood victim children of all races and classes went through. That way we can all do better helping ourselves if there is another hurricane, flood or any other danger that we have to overcome. We will overcome, especially together.

This book can help you be strong alone and stronger together with friends and family.