(Israel21c) Abigail Klein Leichman - Ten days after the shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, experts from the Israel Trauma Coalition (ITC) arrived at the community to guide teachers and community leaders through a "day after" strategy for helping people face the future with resilience. "Most counselors, teachers and clinicians have never dealt with a mass shooting. They have no frame of reference," said Nancy Teitelbaum, senior director of marketing and communications at Goodman Jewish Family Services of Broward County. That's exactly what the Israeli team came to provide. ITC members Yotam Dagan from Natal Israel Center for Trauma and Resilience, and Alan Cohen from the Community Stress Prevention Center, led sessions for 600 community leaders including clinicians, law enforcers, social workers, first responders, parents and clergy. "What was really apparent was that the experts from Israel really knew what they were talking about," said Teitelbaum.
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