Uvalde offers mental health resources for the victims and considers rebuilding the school where the shooting took place as the community tends to its invisible wounds.
, 9, whom Zayin called Ellie. After a school dance at Robb, Zayin decided he wanted to give Ellie a gift. He begged his mom to get him a ring that he could give her. He was never able to do it.Zayin was in Room 111 during the shooting, one of the two conjoined classrooms where the gunman holed up. He recalls glass shattering and seeing bullet casings on the classroom floor as he and other students hid behind his teacher’s desk. Zayin and other kids were able to escape through a window.
Zayin Zuniga visits Eliahna Amyah Garcia’s memorial, left, on June 1. Flowers and balloons surround crosses at Robb Elementary in Uvalde.Marcos Guzman, 12, who graduated from Robb Elementary last year, said he knew some of the kids and teachers who were killed last week. He doesn’t understand the senseless acts that left his peers dead, especially in Uvalde.As Uvalde grieves, local, state and federal officials are also looking for ways to help the community heal.
A state-funded telehealth program for youth is offering services to the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District to help identify students and families in mental or emotional crises and give them counseling or therapy services they may not otherwise have access to, Pliszka said.
In this first phase of trauma response, Wakefield said, those types of actions are key to keep grieving, frightened people connected to their community to get them through the devastating first few days after an extremely traumatic event. “PTSD can occur when you experience a trauma in which you thought you might lose your life or a person very close to you might lose theirs,” she said. “Our biological systems are wired to keep us safe from trauma, to be on high alert, to be able to run or to fight if we need to do that. But when we’ve been exposed to extreme trauma, many of our brains — 20-30% typically — will kind of stay in that high-alert place.
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