Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley met with Boston Marathon bombing survivors in Dorchester, where she received support for a law that opens up a federal counseling program to survivors of FEMA-declared emergencies within the first nine months of an event.
Photograph, flowers and signs adorn a barrier, two days after two explosions killed three and injured hundreds, at Boylston Street near the of finish line of the Boston Marathon at a makeshift memorial for victims and survivors of the bombing, April 17, 2013.
Pressley said that there have been 4,000 emergency declarations around the U.S. in the last decade, for which survivors did not get access to FEMA's federal resources for trauma recovery. "I just felt like I kept knocking on doors, kept saying, 'Can you help me? This thing happened to me, can you help me?'" Chylinski said on Tuesday."It felt like if I was going to get help, I had to figure it out myself."
Lynn Julian, another Boston bombing survivor who suffered brain damage, permanent hearing loss, and severe neck, back and shoulder injuries, said her complex PTSD might have been avoided if she had gotten the therapy she needed more quickly. Julian said the Massachusetts Resiliency Center — which provided free services for victims of the marathon bombings, operated by the state's Office of Victim Assistance — turned her away. She said center staff told her they were not accepting survivors with"internal" or"invisible" injuries.
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