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Compassion Fatigue After Katrina

How I Got Involved. Needmor FundLouisiana Disaster Recovery Foundation. Brookings Institution Helped Frame the Work. Campaign for Equity and InclusionEconomyHousingHealth CareEducationCultureNOLARural areas The right of return for everyone to communities of opportunity"Gulf Coast regio

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Compassion Fatigue After Katrina

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    1. Compassion Fatigue After Katrina DBHRT First Annual Conference May 2010

    2. How I Got Involved Needmor Fund Louisiana Disaster Recovery Foundation

    3. Brookings Institution Helped Frame the Work Campaign for Equity and Inclusion Economy Housing Health Care Education Culture NOLA Rural areas “The right of return for everyone to communities of opportunity” Gulf Coast regional coalition: rural and urban

    4. Brookings BH Takeaways Recognized Mental Health implications for development strategy, good and bad. Circles of Risk: even lawyers & policy wonks Foundations concerned about burnout: sustainability of the organizations they fund I was charged with assessing the BH need and developing a plan

    5. The Work UNDERSTAND the context of recovery and its BH affects Interviews Site tours “Convenings”

    6. The Work SOME KEY FINDINGS: DIASPORA included professional community Helpers’ COMPASSION FATIGUE: Endless work Collapse of their own world CULTURAL /OCCUPATIONAL BARRIERS to seeking help Everything goes through FAITH BASED COMMUNITY Meeting burnout: planning was everywhere Decades to Recovery/Reconstruction? Bayou country in greater jeopardy than NOLA

    7. The Recommendations Personal LORA grants Organizational change to promote self care peer care empowerment Adapt existing community processes to support behavioral health Promote “Reconciliation” narratives through cultural events Faith Based Capacity building Support group for leaders Role model/sponsor for parishioners Support for community organizing ACORN/Industrial Areas Foundation Build infrastructure for isolated organizers

    8. Personal Lessons learned Limits to traditional BH interventions Beware of “knowing it all” Opportunities exist for creative, open eyes The power of place & the seduction of disaster hard to witness hard to leave Spirit & meaning NOLA taken in as a “new part of me” I follow its narrative as if it were my own

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