SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – A Shreveport mother is getting her own tragedy and using it to help Shreveport communities plagued by gun violence and the collective grief that follows.
Tasha Myers’ 17-yr-outdated son Devin was fatally shot very last thirty day period in close proximity to his house in Shreveport’s Queensborough neighborhood. He was a Huntington Substantial School athlete who performed on the school’s basketball workforce.
Now, Tasha Meyers is setting up a nonprofit termed “Friends of Devin” to help Shreveport kids and their families, plagued by violence deal with grief and its consequences. Outreach will start with the Huntington Higher School relatives.
“We can however enable the little ones in the local community to get what they need to have, backpacks, cleanliness, snack packs. We’re heading to start out off like that 1st,” Myers reported.
Myers is hoping to engage the group in a conversation about psychological overall health and how to cope with dying. She strategies to do so all through a taping of The Possibility Taker Podcast Huntington students and other group members are invited to be on hand for the official start of Mates of Devin.
“I just want all the moms to be strong. It’s difficult,” Myers mentioned. “I’m not gonna say it’s simple. Not likely to explain to you we’re not going to grieve, others grieve differently mine is heading to be working with the kids induce that is what I love.”
There will be conversations with Devin Myers’ coaches and a counselor will be on-web-site to chat about how to cope with grief and decline. The function will acquire area at 9:30 a.m. Saturday at 8516 Meadow Parkway Generate in Shreveport.
Centenary Faculty psychology professor Latoya Pierce claims a simple way to cope with demise is partaking with other people who know how grief feels.
“It’s a method that we simply just navigate and that we really do not try out to pace by means of,” Pierce said. “But I believe resources too. Nonprofits, help groups. A lot of the time what, they can do is give you the space that you will need to grieve in the way that you need to have to grieve.”
“Devin’s loss of life has introduced local community back. We have had a possibility to witness and be a component of what it usually means for neighborhood to occur with each other and to assist a person a different and we considered that was missing and that’s what ‘Friends of Devin’ is all about,” claimed Francine Brown, Govt Director of Seniors Initial.