Their trauma is often lost in the grief over those who died, experts say after the Monterey Park mass shooting.
Mia Tretta was shot in the abdomen by a .44-caliber ghost gun as she walked with her best friend at Saugus High School. It was Nov. 14, 2019.Tretta was hospitalized for days, but pushed through the pain and returned to school on Dec. 2. “Myself and most people in my community were still in shock,”She was not fine. The survivors of gun violence rarely are.
Once the initial shock wears off, survivors enter an intermediate phase, often characterized by fear, anger, anxiety, difficulty paying attention, depression and disturbed sleep. It’s critical for communities to offer long-term support at this time, SAMHSA said. School shootings in particular can have long-term ramifications. The National Bureau of Economic Research found that they increased absenteeism, reduced high school and college graduation rates and decreased retention of teachers. The effects persisted into surviving students’ mid-20s, and they had lower employment rates and earnings than their peers.
Deborah Kipers, a patient of shooting victim Dr. John Cheng, outside his office in Aliso Viejo in May 16. Cheng was killed in a shooting at Geneva Presbyterian Church in Laguna Woods on May 15.were uninsured or self-paying, which means they either bore the burden of the medical charges, or the charges weren’t paid and added to the uncompensated care provided by hospitals and health care systems.After all other avenues have been exhausted — insurers, litigation, etc.
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