GVPanorama: How Should We Support School Shooting Survivors?
GVPanorama: How Should We Support School Shooting Survivors?
Experts say more attention needs to be paid to students exposed to gun violence
While on the search for recent gun violence prevention news for our weekly "Friday Finds” feature, we often come across editorials, personal stories, or wider-lens articles that don’t necessarily fit into a current events window. With GVPanorama, we will highlight some of these thought-provoking pieces.
Today’s GVPanorama piece comes from The Nation. It’s one of a series of five recent articles from “young journalists [who] responded to our calls for articles detailing critical issues that impacted young people this year.”
In our attempt to shed more light on the experiences of gun violence survivors, this article succinctly details the problems that arise for students who survive a school shooting, and the continued lack of understanding about how educators, medical professionals, and others can help these young people deal with their trauma and transition them back into a “normal” life.
And as Dr. Maya Rossin-Slater, an associate professor in the Department of Health Policy at Stanford University, reveals here, “there are no coordinated programs in the U.S. providing that sort of support after a shooting. As a result, the burden of providing resources often falls to the school districts, leading to inequity as ‘poor school districts, understaffed school districts are just gonna have fewer resources to be able to offer to their students.’”
“This story was produced for StudentNation, a program of the Nation Fund for Independent Journalism, which is dedicated to highlighting the best of student journalism.”