Ann Eissfeldt

Anna Eissfeldt and the Rev. R. Richard Armstrong led a workshop designed to support school staff who still need to tell their students, "Your parent is dead," said Furst.The workshop also guided teachers in helping students cope with the crisis in New York.

Eissfeldt, a school psychologist, Tampa, Fla., and Armstrong, Grace Lutheran Church, St. Petersburg, Fla., led the workshop on Staten Island and southeast Brooklyn, New York, on Oct. 19 and 20, respectively.The workshop is part of "God's Care in Time of Crisis," a program designed to train parochial teachers on helping defuse situations of anxiety among students following acts of violence.Eissfeldt directs the program.

"Ann Eissfeldt and Rick Armstrong have been present in Lutheran schools in New York City for several weeks," Furst said."They have done more than lead a workshop," he said.Furst reported that 47 children from Lutherans schools lost parents in the destruction of the World Trade Center.

"There are 21,000 students in 212 Lutheran schools of which 140 schools were directly impacted," he said.

In New York 300 to 400 Lutheran teachers will gather for a conference in November.The conference will include three workshops designed to provide individual and group counseling, and train 10 local counselors to work "on the scene," Furst said.Similar plans are being developed for Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C., he said.

-Ann Eissfeldt
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With national publicity focusing on kids setting up lemonade stands and donating the profits toward Sept. 11 response, families are tending to overlook other things kids can do besides raise money, pointed out Ann Eissfeldt, a school psychologist in St. Petersburg, FL for three Lutheran schools.

"I would encourage kids to give something of themselves rather than getting some money and buying something for somebody," said Eissfeldt.

Eissfeldt, who helped respond after the shooting at Columbine High School in April 1999, emphasized that adults can encourage kids to show caring to others."I would tell children that if they see someone being bullied, or picked on, or left out, or a kid who has gone through an illness with a parent -- to make that person something or just give them a hug."

If children feel compelled to buy something for a person in need, a gift certificate is a good choice, said Eissfeldt, because it gives the recipient the power to choose.

,Ann Eissfeldt
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With national publicity focusing on kids setting up lemonade stands and donating the profits toward Sept. 11 response, families are tending to overlook other things kids can do besides raise money, pointed out Ann Eissfeldt, a school psychologist in St. Petersburg, FL for three Lutheran schools.

"I would encourage kids to give something of themselves rather than getting some money and buying something for somebody," said Eissfeldt.

Eissfeldt, who helped respond after the shooting at Columbine High School in April 1999, emphasized that adults can encourage kids to show caring to others."I would tell children that if they see someone being bullied, or picked on, or left out, or a kid who has gone through an illness with a parent -- to make that person something or just give them a hug."

If children feel compelled to buy something for a person in need, a gift certificate is a good choice, said Eissfeldt, because it gives the recipient the power to choose.

With national publicity focusing on kids setting up lemonade stands and donating the profits toward September 11 response, families are tending to overlook other things kids can do besides raise money, pointed out Ann Eissfeldt, a school psychologist in St. Petersburg, FL for three Lutheran schools.

"I would encourage kids to give something of themselves rather than getting some money and buying something for somebody," said Eissfeldt.If children feel compelled to buy something for a person in need, a gift certificate is a good choice, said Eissfeldt, because it gives the recipient the power to choose."Giving a gift certificate enables kids to do their own buying, or it lets parents do the buying because they know what their kids want or need.So many places are national-Toys R Us, Office Depot, Sears, JC Penney."

Anna E. Eissfeldt, M.A.

Licensed School Psychologist
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Anna Eissfeldt is a graduate of Valparaiso University and Southeast Missouri State University.She is a licensed school psychologist and a member of the National Association of School Psychologists.She has served in public and private schools in California, Missouri and Florida as both a school psychologist and guidance counselor.Presently she is serving as school psychologist for three Lutheran schools in the St. Petersburg area.In addition to crisis workshops, Ann has presented workshops for teachers on accommodations and interventions for children with special needs at both the local and national level.She is married and has two children and one grandchild.

Anna E. Eissfeldt

Anna graduated =With Distinction= from Valparaiso University in 1960 and received her masters degree from Southeast Missouri University, Cape Girardeau, Missouri.She is a Florida licensed school psychologist.She serves as School Psychologist in three Lutheran schools in Pinelles County, Florida.

Some longtime LDR resource people--Gary Harbaugh (LDR "Care for the Caregiver" specialist), Foster McCurley (Lutheran theologian and Old Testament scholar), Alan Weitzman (grief counselor), and Anna Eissfeldt (licensed school psychologist) and her staff--have been and continue to be present, offering their special ministry gifts.