Children, Law, and Disasters: What We Learned from Katrina and the Hurricanes of 2005
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About the Book
This book, a collaboration between the American Bar Association and the University of Houston Law Center, examines the intersection of children, law and disasters like Hurricane Katrina. It looks at the experiences of children during the disasters and the first response to the events in order to demonstrate how we can do a better job for children. It acknowledges the considerable stress on systems such as juvenile justice, foster care, and education before the disasters and what needs to happen in a post-Katrina world.
The book stresses the opportunity to examine and engage the problems that were exposed by disasters like Katrina and create effective policies for children in these all important systems. It also takes a longer view about the implications of an agenda focused on children's needs for public policy in general. It provides the government, as well as organizations and individuals who advocate for children, a much-needed tool to develop policies and plans for the future.
Co-published by the ABA Center on Children and the Law and the Center for Children, Law & Policy at the University of Houston Law Center
Table of Contents
Introduction Katrina, Children and the 3Rs: Race, Reconstruction, and Redemption
Children and Disasters; The Editors' Introduction
Chapter 1: Information Sharing and Emergency Coordination Manual for Children in Foster Care Displaced by Disasters
Chapter 2: Foster Care: Disasters Complicate an Already Bad Situation
Chapter 3: Disasters and Psychological Risk in Children
Chapter 4: Archiving the Voices and Needs of Katrina's Children: The Uses and Importance of Stories Narrated Survivor-to-Survivor
Chapter 5: Rethinking Juvenile Justice in the Wake of Katrina
Chapter 6: The Recovery School District Act and the New Orleans Charter Schools
Chapter 7: Providing an Adequate and Equitable Education for the Children of Katrina and Other Victims of Disaster
Chapter 8: Rebuilding Schools, Rebuilding Communities: The Civic Role of Mississippi's Public Schools after Hurricane Katrina
Chapter 9: The Right to an Education for Homeless Students: The Children of Katrina
Chapter 10: Children and Disasters: Child Evacuation in World War II and Public Policy in Great Britain
