During and following Hurricane Katrina, families and children in the central Gulf Coast experienced multiple losses, forced relocation, unsafe living conditions, violence, and deprivation (see Introduction and chaps. 1 and 10, this volume). Indeed, in the days and weeks following the floods, many children and their families were exposed to violence, did not know the whereabouts of their loved ones, and were unable to meet their basic needs (Osofsky, Osofsky, &. Harris, 2007). Entire communities and social networks were severely damaged; fragmented by forced relocation; or, in some cases, even disappeared, limiting families' ability to rely on these sources to help them cope with Katrina's aftermath.The process of reconstruction and recovery from the hurricane has been slow and plagued with difficulties. One year after the hurricane, about 100,000 survivors, many of them children, remained in trailers provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) or other types of temporary housing (Save the Children, 2006
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