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Something New on Mass Shooting — Aftermath

This one was new to me.

Mass shootings are becoming more and more prevalent across the United States. The old phrase of “I never imagined it happening here” is becoming a less common quote in the aftermath of a shooting.

I picked up the information below from my newspaper reading and thought I’d pass it along. Make a mental note of the information and tuck it away for your potential use. We need all the resources we can muster after a mass shooting. The duration of the aftermath was another item to take note of.

“In the massacre’s [a shooting in Pennsylvania] aftermath, agents from the FBI’s Victim Services Response Team descended on the city with, among other things, pamphlets and workbooks explaining what residents should expect in the ensuing months. (Yes, the FBI has a special unit devoted entirely to helping communities recover from mass shootings and terrorism.) Titled “Phases of Collective Trauma Response,” one handout showed a squiggly graph with a peak (Heroic Phase) immediately after a shooting, then a deep valley (Disillusionment Phase), followed by a long, slow upward trend (Rebuilding and Restoration Phase). According to the graph, it takes a community 24 to 60 months to recover — which put Pittsburgh smack in the Disillusionment Phase at the end of 2018.”
Eric Holdeman is a nationally known emergency manager. He has worked in emergency management at the federal, state and local government levels. Today he serves as the Director, Center for Regional Disaster Resilience (CRDR), which is part of the Pacific Northwest Economic Region (PNWER). The focus for his work there is engaging the public and private sectors to work collaboratively on issues of common interest, regionally and cross jurisdictionally.