Thank you, Mr. Chair. Six minutes are probably not going to be anywhere near enough with this group of witnesses.
First of all, I want to take a moment to thank all of you for being here. Ms. Nederpel, Ms. Hackett and Ms. Dreyfus, please take back to your membership the thanks of all the people on this committee for the incredible work that you and your members all do. We're so very thankful.
Ms. Dreyfus, I'm so glad you made a recovery from COVID. It is so nice to see you here, and thank you very much.
I'm going to go to you, Ms. Hay, if I could. Your statistics were alarming. The work you do is overwhelmingly impressive. Thank you.
I'm a father of two teenagers. When we think about how the schools and the programs for youth were all shut down during the first wave, I was so glad to see that we did invest over $7 million with the Kids Help Phone.
I also want to take a quick second to thank Tony Van Bynen, because we wouldn't be having these conversations if it weren't for Tony pushing so hard for this study, and it's so important. It's the pandemic within a pandemic.
I'm sorry that I'm taking so long before I get to a question, but this is pretty important stuff to me.
We see a light at the end of the tunnel with vaccines, but we're so far from being out of the woods yet. I think about social isolation, and I think about virtual-only learning for students across the country and the lack of in-person activity. It's a major issue. It was a major issue before COVID, and it's going to be a lingering issue long after COVID.
What can we do better to support this generation of youth right now and into the future?