Giving Compass' Take:

• NPR reports on a small village called Castañer in Puerto Rico, still picking up the pieces after Hurricane Maria, and the lingering effect of trauma on the population.

• Are relief organizations equipped to provide mental health services to victims of natural disasters? And what can be done to make sure assistance does not dry up when citizens need it the most?

• In Puerto Rico, a new resiliency commission is pushing for community-led recovery.

Helicopters from the power company buzz across the skies of this picturesque valley, ferrying electrical poles on long wires to workmen standing on steep hillsides.

The people of Castañer, an isolated village in Puerto Rico's central mountains, view the repairs to the electrical grid warily. Crews have come and gone, and people living along the mountain roads don't expect to get power until late summer, if ever. Power finally started flowing to the center of town last month, but the grid remains unstable, and the hospital continues to rely on its own generator.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development last week committed an additional $18.5 billion to help rebuild Puerto Rico, and in towns like this the task looks immense ...

Many of the town's people continue to experience acute stress and anxiety attacks, says Dr. Javier Portalatin, a clinical psychologist and director general for mental health at the hospital.

Up a winding mountain road, one of Portalatin's patients, Johanna Garcia Mercado, lives in near-constant fear. Just 10 feet in front of her tiny, dark home, the hillside collapsed during the hurricane; since then, she says, she feels panic rising in her chest and often cries uncontrollably.

"When it rains and thunders," says Mercado, "I'm afraid the steep hillside behind the house will collapse and bury my daughters in mud." She was hospitalized for a month with all the stress.

Read the full article about the post-hurricane mental anguish in Puerto Rico by Sarah Varney at npr.org.