- Dr. Britte Cheng

Dr. Cheng: We did a follow-up survey of those who responded in 2021. We sent them another survey, and there's lots more to report on the survey, but in light of the supports that Dr. Chambers was just talking about, there are actually reports of quite a bit of access to supports, the largest being professional affinity groups, which 58% of respondents said they had access to. There was also about half who said that they had access to ongoing systems of mental health supports and access to culturally competent mental health therapists that they also took advantage of. There were other resources that were available, but a lot of folks are not necessarily able to take advantage of them. And we need to dig in a little bit more to figure out why they weren't able to do that. But what I'd really like to show you is that we also asked participants what kind of interactions help sustain them in their capacity to do their job. And what you really see is that social friends and acquaintances is 65%, and educators is 61%. These are social interactions that folks are having that are keeping them sustained. Friends and acquaintances outside the classroom, but also in the workplace.