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AmeriCorps members are finding careers, bringing new energy to disaster services
When looking at the emotional phases of a disaster there is an attempt to understand what individual survivors and communities are going through after an event. Time and again we see the greatness of humanity post impact with heroic moments both great and small.
During the heroic phase we see people opening their homes, helping out neighbors, and performing infinite small kindnesses. It is during the heroic and honeymoon phases that survivors feel they are not alone, and they have hope for the future. Unfortunately the realization of the long haul ahead along with the truth of the months or years it will take to recover often leads to disillusionment, and sometimes the loss of that very hope that was so strongly present just days or weeks before.






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