L.A. Shooting August 10, 1999
We react with the profoundest sense of horror and outrage to the vicious gun attack on innocent young children and staff at the Jewish Day Care Center, Granada Hills JCC, San Fernando, Los Angeles.We express our deepest concern and pray for the survival of the young child who was critically injured. Our thoughts are with the victims, their families and friends in their suffering and shock, and we pray for their full physical and emotional recovery. Reporting links to view:New York Times - Gunman Wounds 5 at L.A. Community Center, Then Flees CNN - Suspect identified in California shootings, hunt intensifies, and especially the section on "You feel like a target": Educational programs to adapt:What Will You Do With Your Life? Express support for the victims, their families and the communityFrom Notice on http://www.Jewishnet.net/ You are invited to express your feelings of participation to the Beth Their site is available at: How to address this in more detail:Based on recommendations issued other shootings and acts of hateful violence, the principles for working through towards coping and healing are:
The selection will vary as age-appropriate - young children are not going to be involved in all the levels of the moral issues or trying to help out or campaign, but need to be taken through the other stages, including expression of support for the victims and those close to them. |
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