Schools Officials: Lincoln Area

schools officials: Lincoln Public Schools officials were motivated step in after the 2014 massacre by the Islamic State group in Sinjar, Iraq, devastated members of the local Yazidi community, the Lincoln Journal Star http //bit.ly/2rWfyv4 reported, according to Metro News. Hundreds of families from the religious minority in Iraq live in the Lincoln area. A new program launched in a Nebraska school district is helping refugee students deal with the trauma that prompted them to flee their home countries. That's when the conversation really started to turn to, 'How can we help, how can we support students and families who have relatives living in this horrible situation ' said Oscar Rios Pohirieth, a cultural specialist and co-ordinator for the district's bilingual liaison program. Whether immigrant or refugee, they will be affected by trauma one way or another. Everyone is affected by it, no matter where they come from. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.