COUNSELLORS TO HELP SCHOOLS IN OMAGH COPE
Counsellors to help schools in Omagh cope
AS STUDENTS in the Omagh area prepare for the new school year, the local education board is to provide counselling and other support for students and teachers affected by the bomb.
Western Education and Library Board chief executive Joe Martin confirmed that it has enlisted the assistance of the Centre for Crisis Management and Education to help the library service, schools and their pupils overcome the horrors of the Omagh atrocity.
"Schools and teachers will have a key role to play in supporting their pupils in coping with the effect of their experience.
"The services we have acquired have worked in similar situations throughout the world, and have an international reputation for helping schools in post-trauma recovery."
The director of the crisis centre, Elizabeth Capewell, has worked with the schools in the board's area in the last few years following similar tragedies in Omagh, Enniskillen and Derry.
The two specialists assigned, who have already arrived in Omagh, bring with them a wealth of experience gained from other traumatic situations in Britain, America, Australia, Israel and Croatia.
Acknowledging the anger and pain still very much alive within the local community, Mr Martin added: "Pupils at schools in the area and students at college and university are among the dead and seriously injured.
"Many others have witnessed horrific scenes and there are few who do not have friends and relatives deeply affected by the events.
"To the families of all of them our hearts go out as they begin to come to terms with the consequences of the tragedy which has occurred."
AS STUDENTS in the Omagh area prepare for the new school year, the local education board is to provide counselling and other support for students and teachers affected by the bomb.
Western Education and Library Board chief executive Joe Martin confirmed that it has enlisted the assistance of the Centre for Crisis Management and Education to help the library service, schools and their pupils overcome the horrors of the Omagh atrocity.
"Schools and teachers will have a key role to play in supporting their pupils in coping with the effect of their experience.
"The services we have acquired have worked in similar situations throughout the world, and have an international reputation for helping schools in post-trauma recovery."
The director of the crisis centre, Elizabeth Capewell, has worked with the schools in the board's area in the last few years following similar tragedies in Omagh, Enniskillen and Derry.
The two specialists assigned, who have already arrived in Omagh, bring with them a wealth of experience gained from other traumatic situations in Britain, America, Australia, Israel and Croatia.
Acknowledging the anger and pain still very much alive within the local community, Mr Martin added: "Pupils at schools in the area and students at college and university are among the dead and seriously injured.
"Many others have witnessed horrific scenes and there are few who do not have friends and relatives deeply affected by the events.
"To the families of all of them our hearts go out as they begin to come to terms with the consequences of the tragedy which has occurred."
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Publisher: NEWS LETTER
Ref: NL/120
Published Date: 27-Aug-98
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