Perspective: 'One death after another' for a Maryland school shows the country’s child grief problem
In June, a post describes a society eager to move on from the pandemic and a community left unable to: “Throughout this crisis three fathers of our students have died, multiple grandparents, parents of our teachers, and many other family members and friends. Students, parents, teachers, and others have all suffered with covid-19 and Br. Chris is currently in the ICU fighting severe pneumonia.”A few weeks later, in July, a post let the community know it had lost “Brother Chris,” too.
She is the counselor for the Catholic school and the adjoining St. Camillus Church, which means she arguably holds one of the most difficult jobs in the Washington region at the moment. It falls to her to help students, staff and parishioners through their grief, and the school and church draw families from neighborhoods that have been among the hardest hit by the coronavirus crisis.
But in each community, there are people like Maldonado who don’t get to look away from the losses children experience, and right now, some of them are staring straight into a web of hurt that has them worried.They can’t share names or specific details because of privacy issues, but based on what they can say, this is clear: As children return to school, whether in person or online, many will be bringing with them a grief they didn’t leave with.
Also clear is this: More resources are needed to help these children. The communities that have paid the highest price for the country’s failure to contain the pandemic are the ones filled with families who can’t afford the mental health support their children now need as a result of it.“It’s heartbreaking,” Maldonado says.
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