Hurricane Sandy
Portraits of Sandy: Mental Health Amid Storm Impact
New Jersey Mental Health Association, Ocean County Health Department weigh in
From Andrew Kitchenman, reporting for NJ Spotlight: People struggling with mental health issues like anxiety and depression have a difficult time under the best of circumstances. Now imagine them trying to cope after being forced from their homes for more than 10 days -- part of that time without their medications. Michele Green-Ferrante, a program director at the New Jersey Mental Health Association, doesn't have to imagine. She's working with 20 clients displaced from their Toms River-area homes by Hurricane Sandy, helping them find places to stay and pharmacies that can fill their prescriptions. “A lot of folks came here very quickly and did not have their medication,” Green-Ferrante said. While New Jersey’s healthcare system plans for …
Keeping whats mine
4:38 pm on Wednesday, November 21, 2012
What happened was a tragic. But lets think about it. We live in an area with NOTHING but water around us. We build on the beach. Its low areas.These kind of storms dont just happen elsewhere. We gotta pull it together or go to higher land. more ›