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PTSD in the youth of the Virgin Islands dovetails in to the cumulative effects of stress on individuals in general. "I want to be positive influence in the community as well as touching on how individual PTS is for each person. We are allowed to accept personally what ever we can but I want to give a solution to surviving and flourishing in the ashes of trauma. I am a PST person starting very young and that is why I decided to come here in the face of disaster. I knew that i had the tools to handle what was coming. I want all to get the tools as they are not sold at Home Depot but need to be generated out of our own selves with the help of talented and dedicated mentors." Mary McVeanWelcome Mary McVean MS APRN BC. Mary did 2 theses on Stress Management and Resiliency factor in adults that were traumatized as children in some way.What wellness means to you? I believe in physical, mental and spiritual wellness and make every attempt to integrate these aspects in my daily practice, especially in Primary Care. I would like a patient to feel that they are not “seen” but are having a “ visit” while I am evaluating and treating the whole person. A person can have a condition that is grave such as cancer but if they are emotionally and spiritually aligned with it they are in fact “well”. Why are you concerned about Post Traumatic Stress in our Youth? The "Community Needs Assessment" I reviewed, after listening to the fabulous RWW Pod Cast with Dr. Norine Michel, (5/1/2019 S1 E41) and confirmed what I have been seeing in my office at Red Hook Family Practice since October of 2017. While the numbers will not be totally assessed until later this year in the CNA, I reviewed the outcome of the research done with Hurricane Katrina and children. It clearly points out that the longer schools are closed, the more disruption, such as the 3 schools that have closed on St Thomas. These closures disrupted the children even more. The disruption of the hours of school, coupled with the sharing of the remaining buildings, will have more long term impacts on the individual children who suffer with PTS. The normal milestones are regressed or even missed during a time of trauma. This results over time in less overall schooling, decreased economics, delayed motor development, lower IQ, more behavioral problems and lower test scores. Children cannot process loss and the higher the stress of the caregiver the higher the children's stress as well. Many children were unsupervised or disrupted by having to go to work with their caregiver or stay with folks who truly have poor coping skills with young children. It is a fact that repetitive trauma compounds all of this and that is exactly what we had with Hurricanes Irma and Maria.So, this is where your work in the 90s, with the Resiliency Thesis, comes into play? My thesis was part of a larger Doctoral, my professor was doing on Eating Disorders, specifically in the female gender. The qualitative research I did resulted in proving that at least one, preferably 2 or more mentors for at least 18 months resulted in a positive outcome as far as developing a functional life. The definition of resiliency included education, partnering, jobs and having children without issues like incarceration, legal issues in general and self sufficiency. What are you proposing will help these children here in the USVI? What I am suggesting, Paul, is that the numerous private sector groups in our religious sects, athletic groups, musicians groups, writers groups that provide this wonderful selection of mentors on these incredible islands of the US territories be tapped and step up to the plate for these children. Rotary was such a wonderful part of my life as a child and my Dad was the president in my city for a number of years. We are so lucky to have all of these groups and especially Rotary to fulfill our large c