SGER: Governmental and Voluntary Association Coordination and Evacuees' Experience of Assistance in Colorado

卡特里娜飓风要求政府和志愿组织作出非同寻常的反应。 虽然最具破坏性的影响是在墨西哥湾沿岸和邻国，但全国各州都接受了撤离人员。 飓风过后的最初几周，科罗拉多州接收了2000多名撤离人员，其中许多人住在丹佛附近一个县的一个旧空军基地的临时避难所里。甚至在一个月后，撤离人员仍在继续抵达，10月中旬，当路易斯安那州的临时避难所逐步关闭时，每天有多达30名新的撤离人员抵达需要服务。 为了满足这一巨大的需求，州和地方官员必须确定在哪里提供住房，如何提供医疗服务，疏散人员需要什么现金援助，以及如何让儿童入学。这些努力的很大一部分依赖于私营机构的工作，因为它们在提供援助方面越来越重要。本研究探讨了科罗拉多如何协调提供服务的撤离。 教会和其他慈善机构是如何为撤离者宣传、提供物品和协助获得社会服务的？谁协调危机服务，是否会有协调一致的长期反应？被疏散者在逃离家园的过程中遭受了创伤。 这项研究还探讨了如何疏散经历的创伤？ 体验的哪些方面对他们来说压力最大？哪些外部支持和资源以及哪些内部应对技能帮助撤离人员度过了非自愿搬迁到新州后的几天、几周和几个月？ 他们是和朋友、家人或社区成员一起来的吗？他们能在多大程度上与科罗拉多的社区建立联系？ 撤离人员是如何获得服务的？撤离人员现在和今后的心理状况如何？ 贫困是如何加剧了作为一名撤离者的经历的？最后，新闻中充斥着关于撤离人员的故事。 大多数美国人从新闻中了解撤离人员，而不是从个人经历中了解。 本研究还考察了印刷和电视新闻媒体所呈现的信息的类型、范围和深度。 我们将跟踪和分析科罗拉多一年来的新闻报道，以研究媒体的初步反应，以及随着灾难从公众意识中消失，报道如何变化。

Hurricane Katrina required an extraordinary response from government and voluntary organizations. While the most devastating impact was in the Gulf Coast and neighboring states, states throughout the country accepted evacuees. Colorado received well over 2000 evacuees in the initial weeks following the Hurricane, many housed in a temporary shelter at an old air force base in a county neighboring Denver. Evacuees continued arriving even a month later, with as many as 30 new evacuees a day arriving in need of services in mid-October when temporary shelters in Lousiana were phased out. To respond to this substantial need, state and local officials had to determine where to provide housing, how to provide medical care, what cash assistance evacuees needed, and how to get children settled into schools. A significant portion of these efforts relied on the work of private agencies, as they become increasingly central to provision of aid. This research examines how Colorado coordinated delivery of services to evacuees. How did the churches and other charities advocate for evacuees, provide goods, and assist in accessing social services? Who coordinated crisis services and will there be a coordinated long-term response?Evacuees suffered a trauma in fleeing their homes. This research also examines how evacuees experienced that trauma? What aspects of the experience were most stressful for them? What external supports and resources and which internal coping skills helped evacuees get through the days, weeks, and months following involuntary relocation to a new state? Did they come with friends or family or community members, and to what extent have they been able to connect with communities in Colorado? How did evacuees experience receipt of services and how are evacuees faring psychologically now and over time? How has poverty compounded the experience of being an evacuee?Finally, the news has been full of stories about evacuees. Most Americans learn about evacuees from the news rather than from personal experience. This research also examines the type, range, and depth of the information presented by the print and televised news media. We will track and analyze news coverage in Colorado over the course of a year to examine the media's initial response, and also how coverage changes as the disaster fades from public consciousness.