They killed 14 people and wounded 22 others, mostly colleagues who worked with Farook at the San Bernardino County Department of Health in the largely working-class region about 65 miles east of Los Angeles.
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“We are learning to live with a new normal here as our staff moves forward with the healing process”, said executive director Lavinia Johnson.
The conference center where the shooting occurred will remain closed.
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Much of the work that IRC employees do can be conducted with clients outside the office.
On Dec. 2, Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik opened fire at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, Calif.
Employees are reporting to work at Inland Regional Center again for the first time since a terror attack last month. 4, 2016, they’ll return to two of the three buildings not damaged in the rampage.
The last time he did that as he does each month was the day before the December 2 terror attack at a holiday luncheon for county employees.
No patients will be visiting the center this week, Johnson said.
Inland Regional Center employees flashed their identification badges to security guards who ushered them into a parking lot surrounded by a mesh-wrapped fence as dozens of news reporters stood outside.
“We want to send to them our condolences today”, she said.
The campus on Waterman Avenue comprises two main buildings where center employees do most of their work, plus a third building that includes a coffee shop, a library and conference facilities that can be rented out. A county restaurant inspector targeting his co-workers was joined by his wife in killing 14 and injuring dozens in the attack. “If you want to get through this as a county, you need not to repress it, not suppress it. You next express it and confess it…” he said.
The workers will have access to professional counselors, and in the afternoon, will be able to mourn together at a memorial service for victims of the shooting. “There is a whole country that loves you… maybe they can’t feel it exactly as you can, but they get it”.
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With a staff of 600, the Inland Regional Center serves more than 30,000 developmentally disabled people from throughout its region in Southern California, officials told the Sun.
