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99/11 bring out the need for emotional support
Watching the events of September 11 2001 unfold on television hospital administrative director dr.tom demaria realized that the children and families of those killed would need long-term emotional support. Dr.demaria acted quickly and singed a lease for 5000 square-foot storefront in Rockville centre to house a counseling center. This counseling became the world trade center child and family counseling program sponsored by south Nassau communities hospital and financed largely from two memorial funds-project liberty and the September 11 fund. Anyone who lost a relative on 9/11receives the program’s services for free. The events of 9/11 are the kind of tragedy that threatens our security and our sense of safety and triggers our need for emotional support and nurturance. Dr.demaria created a safe place where parents could bring their children and be cared for themselves. The families made the rules in the counseling center, not counseling program’s 25 therapists, including psychologists social workers and art therapists from the south Nassau hospital staff.