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A study of over 1,700 U.S. young people exposed to four major hurricanes found that just a few of them reported chronic stress, and the trajectories among most youth reflected recovery or low-decreasing post-traumatic stress (PTS) symptoms, according to research recently published in
JAMA Network Open.
Titled Trajectories of Post-traumatic Stress in Youths After Natural Disasters, the inquiry, conducted from August 2017 to August 2020, combined data from four studies of youths ages six to 16 who attended schools near the respective destructive paths of Hurricanes Andrew (1992), Charley (2004), Ike (2005) and Katrina (2008), from three to 26 months following the disasters. Fifty-four percent of the subjects were female, and 46 percent identified as White non-Hispanic.
Families gather for Breakfast with God
A program from the Roche Center for Catholic Education and Church in the 21st Century Center provides family faith formation through the Gospel, song, prayer, literature, and art
Brothers Ethan and Liam listen to Fr. Tran during a recent session of Breakfast with God. (Photo by Melodie Wyttenbach)
Sunday mornings, young children gather in their respective homes for a special program that connects them and their family via Zoom with other families, with the Gospel, and with their Catholic faith.
“Breakfast with God” may be a virtual event, but the joyfulness is palpable, say participants and organizers.
World view
Despite the pandemic, Vice Provost James Keenan, S.J., reports new advancements in global engagement for Boston College
Vice Provost for Global Engagement James Keenan, S.J. (Lee Pellegrini)
The coronavirus has made it a challenging time for global outreach in academia, given international travel restrictions and financial uncertainties throughout higher education. But the Boston College Office of Global Engagement, under the direction of first-year Vice Provost James Keenan, S.J., has made significant advances nonetheless.
Fr. Keenan has succeeded in meeting the ambitious agenda he set for himself by strengthening the Strategic Alliance of Catholic Research Universities, or SACRU, creating new partnerships with Jesuit institutions, and working with the Office of the Provost to bring the Office of International Programs and Office of International Students and Scholars under the auspices of the Office of Global Engagement this semester.
WHEN FIREFIGHTERS ARRIVED at 102 Belair Street in Brockton, Massachusetts, in the predawn hours of April 17, 2003, they observed two teenagers poking their heads out of second-floor windows. One of the teens was 17-year-old Frances Choy, who, awakened by her mother’s scream of “Frances, there’s a fire!” had called 911 on her cell phone. The other was Kenneth Choy, Frances’s 16-year-old nephew. Inside the house, a fire was burning with such intensity that it had melted wall fixtures, and thick smoke had trapped Frances, Kenneth, and Frances’s parents Jimmy and Anne Choy in their bedrooms.
Anne Choy would be pronounced dead later that morning at Good Samaritan Hospital, but as a headline in the next day’s
(Photos provided) LAKE PLACID Northwood School administration has announced the appointment of two new members to its distinguished faculty: Elliotte Yookyung Lee and Reid Jewett Smith. Lee is a resident of Rainbow Lake and Smith of Lake Placid. Both join Northwood School as teaching faculty in the Humanities Department. Lee holds a Master of Science in educational leadership, and curriculum and instruction from the American College of Education and is a graduate of Florida State University, where she received her Bachelor of Arts in English and education. She has spent the past 15 years teaching high school students literature, reading, English and social studies. She was most recently the middle and high school English Department chair and a literature teacher for grades 9 to 12 at Pioneer Academy in New Jersey. She has received many accolades for her curricular leadership and design projects, and has been heavily involved in school leadership activities throughout her tenu