Marysville Globe, January 10, 2015

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Recovery director provides tough love to school district By STEVE POWELL spowell@marysvilleglobe.com

MARYSVILLE – Recovery Director Mary Schoenfeldt is telling the Marysville School Board some things it doesn’t want to hear. While the board feels its mission is to give students

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a state of disillusionment right now. Students and staff at M-P will be dealing with panic and anger. More support staff and training is needed. Trainings needed include support groups, mental health, crisis intervention, social media, trauma, post

traumatic stress and more. The recovery budget, totaling almost $1.39 million, includes money for counselors, support services and training. It also includes funds for a crisis consultant, tutor, suicide awareness SEE RECOVER, PAGE 2

By STEVE POWELL spowell@marysvilleglobe.com

LAKEWOOD – Taking it one step at a time is easier said than done for Todd Duitsman. He wasn’t able to take his first step until Jan. 5. He hadn’t been able to do that since he was paralyzed from the neck down after a body surfing accident in Maui July 3. Recovery is going too slow for Duitsman, who admits he isn’t a patient man. The 46-year-old father of three used to be always on the go. When he wasn’t selling properties as a Realtor for Keller Williams in Marysville, he was coaching at least one of his kids in soccer or basketball or playing sports himself. “I went from being able to do everything to being able to do nothing,” he said. “It was humbling.” Despite the drastic change in his life, Duitsman remains amazingly optimistic. He said he has always been able to control the way his mind thinks so he can be upbeat. He said he never has been down about his condition or asked, “Why me?” “I have a choice, and I choose to be happy and positive,” he said, adding as a Realtor and former Amway salesman he has heard a lot of negative, and he has a special ability to tune it out. A competitive man by nature, he is determined to beat this. “I’m getting better all the time,” he said Jan. 6. Duitsman works two to four hours

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Todd, in his wheelchair, and Tammi Duitsman, right, live with friends in a house he built years ago. Above, Duitsman can swipe at his phone to get to apps, including one that takes notes for him about a book he wants to write. daily trying to stretch the limits of movement with the help of a physical therapist, occupational therapist and trainer. “And I’m constantly moving on my own,” he said as he bent forward at the waist while in his super-duper wheelchair. His wife, Tammi, said she was ecstatic when he took his first step. “Day to day it’s hard to see,” she said. “But when I look back and remember how far he’s come it’s amazing to see.” Now that Duitsman has taken his first step, his goal is to take “more steps; to

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member Chris Nation said Jan. 5. “It’s hard to give a pass.” But Schoenfeldt explained that with her experience in other school shootings it is going to take some time to recover. She passed out a chart at the work session that shows Marysville in

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the best education possible and push them to do their best, Schoenfeldt is saying that because of the murder-suicide at MarysvillePilchuck High School Oct. 24 it is best to ease off some. “We need to get back into the mode of learning,” an obviously frustrated board

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