A chronic absenteeism rates, kids are just not going back to school, and they’re getting caught up in a lot of other types of delinquency, you saw the same thing with sort of the loss of gang violence intervention services, sort of formal and informal… bulwarks within the communities during COVID. You don’t fix that overnight.

Amy Swearer

We really have to look at the way that these long COVID shutdowns really interrupted a lot of vital services, we are seeing unfortunately the continued effect of these factors happening at the same time.