my congresswoman was shot today

[badgercat]

Hopefully, there is a community crisis team that can provide services to any member of the community who is being affected by this incident. It's very common for people who even just live near the scene to have symptoms of acute traumatic stress disorder, which is basically PTSD that lasts no longer than a month. Many times, there are people who fly in to provide these services when there's a full scale disaster, such as a hurricane or earthquake, terror incident. I know that some of my professors do this.
As for the victims, they will intensive work with a trauma specialist.

I know that the counseling wing of the Campus Health Service has opened its doors to anyone from the University who needs some help. I haven't heard specifically about crisis teams reaching out to the general public, but I was also at work 11 hours/day on Saturday and Sunday, so that doesn't mean they're not there--I just haven't been able to pay as much attention to the news as I would like.

I'm not sure how Tucson is being portrayed in the national/world media, but we really do have some forward-thinking folks running our city, and I'm sure things are in place (or at least in the works) for members of our community to help each other through this time.