Red Cross And Katrina Case Study

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Rivera 1 Red Cross and Katrina Evaluation of the Response from the Red Cross to the Katrina disaster from Human Services delivery perspective Luz Rivera Human Services Delivery Empire State College Instructor: Sean Mathews January 20,2011 Rivera 2 Summary Before the criticism starts as to what the Red Cross did not do, it should be stated for the record what the agency did accomplish. Estimates have reached and exceeded 2 billions dollars needed for the relief effort of Katrina with assistance be provided to 1.2 million families witch correlates to 3.7 million survivors. Temporary housing was provided to 3.42 million…show more content…
Looking at the Assessment Domain (Ballew & Mink, 1996) external resources such as family, friends, work mates and neighbors were again, totally eliminated, income sources were gone due to destruction of businesses, and community support groups were washed away with the rest of New Orleans. Personal strengths such as organization, coping with daily living, understanding the world and caring for ones self also were seriously tasked in the first week of post Katrina, just providing for the basic needs was seldom accomplished. This created further problems with personal factors, sickness, inability to cope and lack of will to continue were the norm instead of the exception. Environmental factors could very well be the defining criticism of the Red Cross, due to the fact that the resources were available, but with the failure to mobilize in time those resources were unable to reach the people in the most need of them. In regards to Service Planning as the next task, again the issue of not being able to envision the magnitude of the disaster hindered the agency from developing sufficient long term goals for relief. There had never been a Rivera
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