Four years after her daughter watched a friend get shot in a Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School classroom, Nicole Cook is angry that another community faces the same magnitude of mental health recovery without a roadmap.
“There still is no trauma research on something like this,” Cook says. “No guidelines for what to say or what should happen. No evidence-based manual. No protocol. By now, we know it’s going to happen again, and so there should be.”
In the aftermath of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shootings that took the lives of 17, Parkland found itself in the same mental health crisis as Uvalde today. Parkland’s experiences offer the Texas community lessons for the difficult years ahead.
