ADVISORY/Columbine Faces Painful Anniversary.Business Editors ADVISORY... --(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 20, 2000 TOPIC: On the one-year anniversary of the Columbine High School Columbine High School is a secondary school in unincorporated Jefferson County, Colorado. The school is located at 6201 South Pierce Street, one mile west of the Littleton city limits and half a mile south of the Denver city/county line. shootings today, Colorado Governor Bill Owens offered words of consolation to Columbine columbine, in botany columbine (kŏl`əmbīn), any plant of the genus Aquilegia, temperate-zone perennials of the family Ranunculaceae (buttercup family), popular both as wildflowers and as garden flowers. residents, as reported by the Associated Press. The memory of last years' rampage will stay with residents forever, Owens told residents, but healing will come more easily after the one-year mark. A public memorial service at the Capitol in downtown Denver is scheduled, with a statewide moment of silence at 11:21 a.m., the time the tragedy began a year ago today. EXPERTS: ExpertSource can offer several highly qualified experts to comment on this story: Dr. Robert R. Butterworth is a child psychologist child psychologist Psychology A mental health professional with a PhD in psychology who administer tests, evaluates and treats children's emotional disorders, but can't prescribe medications at International Trauma Associates. He has assisted radio, TV, and print media since 1984 find answers and provide insight to enhance understanding of psychological issues related to children and adolescents, especially during disasters and youth tragedies and psychological reactions to breaking news that relates to young people and their culture. 213/487-7339 robert@drbutterworth.net Dr. Daniel Fuster, director of the teen health center at Kaiser Permanente is an expert in adolescent health issues. 510/271-5826 Laura.H.Marshall@kp.org Dr. Mark Levy of the UCSF UCSF University of California at San Francisco Dept. of Psychiatry and the San Francisco Foundation for Psychoanalysis is an expert in post traumatic stress disorder Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) A disorder that occurs among survivors of severe environmental stress such as a tornado, an airplane crash, or military combat. Symptoms include anxiety, insomnia, flashbacks, and nightmares. and psychological trauma. mark@levymd.com Dr. Bruce Roberts, VP Medical Services at Magellan Behavioral Health and assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Illinois University of Illinois may refer to:
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